Be Mine
Autor Richard Forden Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 iun 2023
Sub cerul vast al Americii, înainte de Crăciun, Frank Bascombe se pregătește pentru ceea ce pare a fi ultima sa reprezentație. După ce l-am însoțit timp de patru decenii prin diversele sale ipostaze — de la jurnalist sportiv la agent imobiliar — îl regăsim acum în rolul cel mai dureros și totodată cel mai uman: cel de îngrijitor al fiului său, Paul, care suferă de ALS. Observăm cum Richard Ford alege să încheie această cronică monumentală a vieții americane nu printr-un gest grandios, ci printr-o odisee intimă, de iarnă, spre Muntele Rushmore. Credem că forța acestui roman rezidă în capacitatea autorului de a privi direct în ochii mortalității, fără a sacrifica acel umor fin, uneori negru, care a definit vocea lui Frank încă de la debut. Cine a citit Independence Day va recunoaște aici aceeași dinamică fragilă și adesea tensionată dintre tată și fiu, însă, spre deosebire de încercările de a stăpâni „normalitatea” din romanele anterioare, Be Mine acceptă fragilitatea absolută a finalului. Dacă în The Sportswriter Frank fugea de pierdere prin proiecții de viitor, aici el învață să locuiască în prezentul restrâns al unei mașini care traversează peisajul american. Proza lui Ford rămâne o experiență tactilă, unde fiecare frază pare cioplită cu grijă pentru a reflecta adevărul crud, dar necesar, al condiției umane. Este o încheiere melancolică, dar necesară, a unui proiect literar comparabil prin anvergură cu seria „Rabbit” a lui John Updike.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0063322757
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 160 x 218 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Harpercollins
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care au urmărit evoluția lui Frank Bascombe de-a lungul anilor, dar și celor care apreciază literatura introspectivă de calibru. Be Mine oferă o meditație rară despre demnitate, iubire filială și acceptarea finalului, demonstrând de ce Richard Ford este considerat un maestru al prozei contemporane. Este o lectură densă care transformă o tragedie personală într-o celebrare a vieții trăite cu atenție.
Despre autor
Richard Ford, născut în 1944, este unul dintre cei mai respectați scriitori americani contemporani, laureat al Premiului Pulitzer pentru ficțiune în 1996 cu romanul Independence Day. Cariera sa este marcată de crearea personajului Frank Bascombe, prin care a explorat psihicul clasei de mijloc americane timp de aproape 40 de ani. Dincolo de faimoasa serie Bascombe, Ford a scris volume de povestiri remarcabile precum Rock Springs și romane aclamate ca Canada, fiind distins și cu Premiul Park Kyong-ni în 2018 pentru contribuția sa la literatura mondială.
Descriere scurtă
Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway.
Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives—sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent—Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe fashion, faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.
In this memorable novel, Richard Ford puts on displays the prose, wit, and intelligence that make him one of our most acclaimed living writers. Be Mine is a profound, funny, poignant love letter to our beleaguered world.
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'Ford's Frank Bascombe series stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction. A fittingly mordant and brilliant conclusion' INDEPENDENT
In the run up to Christmas, we meet Frank Bascombe in the twilight of his days. He is a man who has occupied many colourful lives - sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent - but now Frank finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter's odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank faces down the mortality assured each of us, and confronts what happiness might signify at life's end.
Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway.
'A literary project matched in ambition only by John Updike's Rabbit series' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Ford's finely hewn prose remains an endless pleasure' DAILY MAIL
'Ford creates a reading experience that feels truer than your own experience ... Think of Be Mine as a chance to spend a last few hours with a friend' THE TIMES
Recenzii
'A literary project matched in ambition only by John Updike's Rabbit series . The greatest ambition of all is that Ford has decided to make this grim material into a bright comedy, and has succeeded'
'Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe series - stands as one of the finest achievements of modern American fiction. Frank's story comes to a fittingly mordant and brilliant conclusion in Be Mine . a joyful reminder that close attention to lived life is both renewing and affirming'
'While the portrayal of a father-son bond torqued by the burden of illness is desperately moving,
the snap and crunch of Ford's finely hewn prose remains an endless pleasure'
'A funny book, with Frank and Paul's dialogue - decades of love contained within - reading at times like a comedy double act'
'Wounding and hilarious . The quality of Ford's prose leaves the reader breathless; there are sentences and paragraphs here you could read and re-read without ever tiring of doing so'
'The laureate of the American middle-class middle man . Great'
'Few writers have captured contemporary American life as incisively as Richard Ford . Bascombe is a memorable literary creation - one of the most complicated and unique characters of our age - and these first-person novels, so resonant in setting and so strong in plot, are full of pathos, as well as being nuanced, wickedly funny depictions of contemporary American life'
'Ford's world is contingent, frightening, beautiful, comically manifold'
'Frank is heroic in his own quotidian way. He holds himself together the way you and I hold ourselves together (or try to): by snatching at straws in the maelstrom of everyday life. That's the power of the Bascombe novels. Ford creates a reading experience that feels truer than your own experience . Think of Be Mine as a chance to spend a last few hours with a friend'
'Ford is a master of first-person narratives in which there is space for philosophical reflection as well as telling human detail'
'Comic elegy . A picaresque record of American boomerdom . Wonderful'
Praise for Richard Ford:
'A masterful writer'
'Ford writes about human beings and their disappointments with unfailing insight'
'A marvellous writer'
'I can't think of many other writers, living or dead, who have given me so many reasons over the years to slow down on the page and pay attention'
'An American master'