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Calypso: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

Autor David Sedaris
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iun 2019

Dacă Mark Twain ar fi trăit în era diagnosticelor medicale absurde și a imobiliarelor de vacanță, probabil ar fi scris cu aceeași aciditate cu care o face David Sedaris. Ne aflăm pe terasa unei case de pe coasta Carolinei, botezată ironic „Sea Section”, unde autorul speră să găsească liniștea jocurilor de societate și a soarelui. Însă, într-o scenă tipică pentru universul său, idila se fisurează rapid sub greutatea unei realizări inevitabile: nu poți lua vacanță de tine însuți. Subliniem faptul că, deși tonul rămâne electrizant de amuzant, Calypso marchează o tranziție către o zonă mult mai vulnerabilă a scriiturii sale.

Considerăm că acest volum ocupă un loc special în bibliografia sa. Dacă în Însușirea bunului găsit am explorat jurnalele brute, pline de observații exterioare, Calypso își întoarce privirea spre interior, către trădările corpului la vârsta a doua și spectrul mortalității. Pe același raft cu The Best of Me, dar cu un accent pe fragilitatea umană în fața timpului, această colecție de eseuri nu se teme să combine banalul cu profanul. Merită menționat că, spre deosebire de explorările geografice din The Land and its People, aici călătoria este una de natură domestică și psihologică.

Stilul narativ este unul cinematic, pendulând între râsul care te face să te îneci și melancolia profundă a celui care realizează că viitorul este mai scurt decât trecutul. Este o lectură de plajă pentru cei care detestă plaja și o meditație asupra familiei pentru cei care știu că doar cei dragi te pot șoca cu adevărat. Calypso rămâne, în viziunea noastră, cea mai caldă și, simultan, cea mai întunecată lucrare a unui autor care a transformat mizantropia într-o formă de artă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349141893
ISBN-10: 0349141894
Pagini: 259
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui apreciază umorul negru și observațiile sociale tăioase. Calypso este un ghid onest despre cum să îmbătrânești fără să-ți pierzi spiritul critic, oferind cititorului satisfacția de a vedea cele mai absurde aspecte ale vieții de familie transformate în literatură de înaltă clasă. Este un câștig pentru cei care caută profunzime sub masca ironiei.


Despre autor

David Sedaris (n. 1956) este unul dintre cei mai apreciați umoriști americani contemporani, eseist și colaborator constant al National Public Radio. A devenit celebru în 1992 cu „Santaland Diaries”, iar de atunci a publicat numeroase volume de eseuri autobiografice, precum Barrel Fever sau Happy-Go-Lucky. Scrierile sale sunt marcate de moștenirea sa greacă, viața în Europa și o capacitate unică de a exploata autoironia. Colaborează frecvent cu sora sa, actrița Amy Sedaris, și este recunoscut pentru modul în care transformă detaliile banale ale existenței în momente comice memorabile.


Descriere

The long-awaited new collection of stories from David Sedaris, America's favourite humorist.


Recenzii

Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there
We get more of a glimpse than we have before of what lies behind the carapace of a writer who seems able to turn almost any situation to comic gold . . . [an] incredibly funny and sometimes moving meditation on love, death and family life, by a master of his craft
Entrancing . . . This book allows us to observed not just the nimble-mouthed elf of his previous work, but a man in his seventh decade expunging his darker secrets and contemplating mortality . . . The brilliance of David Sedaris's writing is that his very essence, his aura, seeps through the pages of his books like an intoxicating cloud, mesmerising us so that his logic becomes ours
Calypso is another triumph from the dinner-table raconteur we all wish we could be, a writer whose lightness of touch makes you confront the hardest of truths - and laugh out loud
Hilarious and moving . . . Sedaris may well be the master of the deadpan delivery - there's plenty of laughing out loud while you read. But Calypso is also a tender portrait of a family, flawed - like any other - but doing their best to love each other
This is a darker, deeper David Sedaris writing about his sister's suicide, the inevitability of ageing and how it's impossible to take a vacation away from yourself, but, rest assured, he's still one of the funniest, most perceptive
writers alive


Although Sedaris is famous for being funny, he does pain heartbreakingly well. His observations are wry and witty and eye-wateringly honest and you'll be so sad when it's over
First-rate comedy gold . . . For Sedaris, the boundary between light and dark is blurred. Life's pain and humiliation coexist in every living moment with its jollity and deliciousness. Which elevates his musings on the bodily and social travails of being a man in late middle age to a level of seriously sublime silliness. As ever, Sedaris's irreverent writing is a serious joy; this collection is a must for anyone with a strong stomach who needs a laugh
Heartbreak and hilarity collide . . . [Calypso] captures the surrealism of the mundane and the funny old thing we like to call life
The American humourist's latest collection of pieces, about life's strange twists and turns, will have you shrieking with laughter and also, possibly, just shrieking
From malformed turtles to his FitBit obsession, this is comic art in motion. Be warned though: we picked up one Sedaris book and two weeks later we'd finished his entire output
Firmly grounded in the present, but with the same sense of twisted nostalgia that has always marked his best work
David Sedaris - a sort of wicked Alan Bennett - is one of the funniest writers at work today
Really, really fabulous
David Sedaris had the whole Vogue office cry-laughing with his latest collection, Calypso, in which the notorious funny man chronicles his family's (mis)adventures at his new beach house, Sea Section. His reflections, on everything from the joys of shopping in Dover Street Market to the tyranny of his Fitbit, are the perfect tonic to the news cycle
There are few writers as gloriously strange, acerbic, funny and faintly ruthless as Sedaris
The king of the humorous essay... Sedaris fans will find plenty of familiar delights: His misanthropic charms and wry wit are as delightful as ever, even if some of the subject matter has changed
His observations feel sharper and often darker than in previous collections, as he ponders the inevitable breakdown of the human body, the shame attendant with illness and age, the nature of addiction, and the eccentricities of his family. Though middle age may have made his shades of grey blacker, the wit and incisiveness that make Sedaris much-adored remain
Honest, reflective, and even tender... Eloquent and silly, Sedaris' collection could probably find unshakable life even in the dust kitties under the bed... He gets you laughing even as he gently turns you toward the darkness we all must face
David Sedaris' new essay collection is the sharpest retort to anyone who thinks they know what our favorite curmudgeonly humorist will be up to next. His charming observational humor is still the engine, but there's nothing frivolous about it... Sedaris grapples poignantly and satisfyingly (and yes, often hilariously) with death, the aging body, and just how far the bonds of family can stretch
Sedaris demonstrates yet again what makes him the best American humorist writing today: a remarkable ability to combine the personal with the political, the mundane with the profane, slime with sublime, and hilarity with heart

Notă biografică

David Sedaris is the author of the books Theft by Finding, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, Naked, and Barrel Fever. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4. He lives in England.