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Brookner, A: Strangers

Brookner, A: Strangers


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Considerăm că vocea narativă din acest roman se distinge printr-o sobrietate tăcută, o precizie aproape chirurgicală a observației care transformă banalul cotidian într-o meditație profundă asupra izolării. Paul Sturgis, personajul central, nu este doar un pensionar care își consumă zilele în ritualuri mărunte, ci un observator lucid al propriei sale „invizibilități”. Brookner construiește aici o arhitectură a singurătății, unde schimburile de amabilități cu străinii de la curățătorie sau frizerie devin singurele puncte de ancorare într-o realitate care pare să îl excludă.

În tradiția volumului Lewis Percy de Anita Brookner, acest roman reia explorarea universului masculin marcat de ezitare și de o anumită stângăcie în fața vitalității celorlalți. Dacă în Lewis Percy accentul cădea pe tensiunea dintre mediul protejat al bibliotecii și lumea simțurilor, în Strangers miza este acceptarea finalului de drum. Ritmul lecturii este lent, deliberat, invitând la o introspecție similară cu cea a protagonistului. Tensiunea nu rezidă în evenimente exterioare spectaculoase, ci în greutatea deciziilor luate târziu în viață, atunci când rutina este zdruncinată de prezența unei femei exigente sau de spectrul unei vechi iubiri. Reținem finețea cu care Anita Brookner analizează regretul, fără a cădea în sentimentalism, oferind în schimb o claritate estetică ce amintește de pregătirea sa de istoric de artă.

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ISBN-13: 9781489368232
ISBN-10: 148936823X
Editura: Bolinda Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman cititorului care caută profunzime psihologică și o proză de o eleganță clasică. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care apreciază analizele fine ale caracterului uman și ale singurătății urbane. Veți câștiga o perspectivă onestă asupra îmbătrânirii și a curajului de a face alegeri chiar și atunci când viitorul pare limitat, totul sub semnătura unei autoare laureate cu Booker Prize.

Despre autor

Anita Brookner (1928–2016) a fost o personalitate marcantă a literaturii britanice contemporane și un reputat istoric de artă. Născută în Londra într-o familie de imigranți polonezi, a predat la Courtauld Institute of Art, fiind prima femeie care a deținut titlul de Slade Professor la Cambridge. Cariera sa literară a început târziu, la 53 de ani, însă a fost extrem de prolifică, publicând 24 de romane. Stilul său este adesea comparat cu cel al lui Henry James, fiind celebră pentru analiza minuțioasă a vieții interioare a personajelor sale. Cel mai cunoscut roman al său, Hotel du Lac, a fost distins cu prestigiosul Booker Prize în 1984.

Notă biografică

Anita Brookner was born in London in 1928 and, apart from several years in Paris, has lived there ever since. She trained as an art historian and taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art until 1988. Strangers is her twenty-fourth novel.

Recenzii

Nothing less than brilliant, often highly amusing and, ultimately life affirming
Each book is a prayer bead on a string, and each prayer is a secular, circumspect prayer, a prayer and a protest and a charm against encroaching night
The beauty and precision of Brookner's writing is rightly praised each time she publishes a novel, but what is less often remarked on is her daring...like Graham Greene, she draws the reader into a world that has a character and signature all of its own...Brookner's wry, dry lightness of touch creates a bloom on the darkness of her characters' sufferings...Strangers is a novel of sober brilliance, and the unerring, unflinching Brookner is still a much underestimated novelist
No one writes with more skill and honesty about the human condition and this book is possibly her finest
A novel of great stylistic beauty and psychological truth...the pitiless depiction of the final stages of life - and the refusal to allow her characters any consolation - makes Strangers as great a reflection on fear and regret as Philip Larkin's poem Aubade or Beckett's Endgame
In the hands of a lesser novelist, her stories of human frailty would be depressing, but she manages to make them sparkle with life - and always with hope...consistently absorbing
Strangers is, in its own way, definitive. A more frightening, demoralising account of how hard life can be, without work, and above all without family, would be difficult to conceive...Brookner has given classic expression to what she sees to be a central truth of the human condition, absolute loneliness at the last...nothing less than a great horror story
Anita Brookner is a distinguished and defiant writer whose books occupy a unique place in English literature. Her subject is the best one: the definition of human nature. Although her novels often convey the loneliness inherent in the human condition, they do so in such an acute and bold way that loneliness itself is shown to be a state as tempestuous and startling as any other sort of crisis. In Brookner's hands, in her descriptions so vivid and exact, it can be exhilarating...her books are unfailingly well written, they give voice and a sense of fierce entitlement to a sort of existence that might otherwise go unrecorded...Brookner's is a literature that may be harsh but it is absolutely necessary
Paul Sturgis is a brilliant and affecting creation by a writer whose empathy runs deep, and whose pitch is perfect...a brisk and moving story

Descriere scurtă

'He was haunted by a feeling of invisibility, as if he were a mere spectator of his own life, with no one to identify him in the barren circumstances of the here and now.'
Paul Sturgis is a retired banker manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers: the cheerful Australian girl who cuts his hair, the lady at the drycleaners. His only relative, and only acquaintance, is a widowed cousin by marriage - herself a virtual stranger - to whom he pays ritualistic visits on a Sunday afternoon. Trying to make sense of his current solitary state, and fearing that his destiny may be to die among strangers, Sturgis trawls through memories of his failed relationships and finds himself longing for companionship, or at the very least a conversation.
But then a chance encounter with a stranger - a recently divorced and demanding younger woman - shakes up his routine and when an old girlfriend appears on the scene, Sturgis is forced to make a decision about how (and with whom) he wants to spend the rest of his days . . .
'Each book is a prayer bead on a string, and each prayer is a secular, circumspect prayer, a prayer and a protest and a charm against encroaching night' Hilary Mantel, Guardian
'No one writes with more skill and honesty about the human condition and this book is possibly her finest' Julie Myerson, Observer
'A novel of great stylistic beauty and psychological truth. As great a reflection on fear and regret as Philip Larkin or Beckett' Guardian
'Like Graham Greene, she draws the reader into a world that has a character and signature all of its own . . . Strangers is a novel of sober brilliance, and the unerring, unflinching Brookner is still a much underestimated novelist' Helen Dunmore, The Times
Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. Hotel du Lac won the 1984 Booker Prize. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.