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Hunger de Roxane Gay

Hunger

Autor Roxane Gay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iun 2018

Într-un moment de vulnerabilitate extremă, Roxane Gay ne așază în fața unei oglinzi care nu reflectă doar trăsături fizice, ci cicatrici invizibile. Moștenirea sa literară, construită pe onestitate brutală, atinge aici punctul culminant: capacitatea de a transforma trauma personală într-o discuție universală despre demnitate. Putem afirma că Hunger nu este doar o carte despre greutate, ci o cartografiere a modului în care corpul devine o fortăreață construită pentru a ne proteja de o lume care ne-a rănit. Descoperim aici o perspectivă cinematică asupra durerii, unde fiecare capitol funcționează ca un cadru strâns asupra luptei dintre confortul de sine și auto-îngrijire.

Remarcăm cum Gay folosește un act de violență din tinerețe ca ax central al narațiunii, explicând cum „foamea” a devenit un scut. Cine a apreciat portretul din Autobiography of My Hungers de Rigoberto González va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă unui context în care vizibilitatea socială este direct proporțională cu spațiul fizic ocupat. Dacă González folosește viniete poetice, Gay mizează pe o autoritate neînduplecată și o candoare care te forțează să privești realitatea celor care se simt invizibili în propria piele.

Această lucrare se poziționează organic în opera autoarei, fiind o continuare necesară a temelor din Bad Feminist. Dacă în Opinions sau în antologia Not That Bad Roxane Gay analiza politicul și socialul prin prisma experienței colective, în Hunger ea coboară în cele mai adânci straturi ale intimității. Este un roman de non-ficțiune despre supraviețuire, unde ritmul este dictat de alternanța dintre amintirile sfâșietoare și prezentul cotidian, oferind o lecție despre ce înseamnă să fii decent cu tine însuți atunci când lumea din jur te judecă după aparențe.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062420718
ISBN-10: 0062420712
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 136 x 204 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă rădăcinile psihologice ale relației noastre cu hrana și imaginea corporală. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă empatică, dincolo de clișeele despre diete, învățând că acceptarea de sine este un proces de vindecare a traumelor trecute. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum vulnerabilitatea poate deveni o formă de putere și cum putem ocupa, în sfârșit, spațiul pe care îl merităm.

Despre autor

Roxane Gay este o voce marcantă a literaturii contemporane americane, cunoscută pentru volumele de eseuri Bad Feminist și Opinions, care au devenit bestselleruri New York Times. Opera sa, care include și ficțiune precum An Untamed State, explorează frecvent intersecția dintre identitate, gen și putere. Gay a editat antologia Not That Bad și a fost editor invitat pentru The Best American Short Stories 2018, consolidându-și reputația de critic cultural fin și povestitor curajos. În Hunger, ea își folosește experiența personală pentru a oferi autoritate unei teme adesea marginalizate în beletristică.

Descriere scurtă

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.”
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.
With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.

Recenzii

“A gripping book, with vivid details that linger long after its pages stop. . . . Hunger is arresting and candid. At its best, it affords women, in particular, something so many other accounts deny them—the right to take up space they are entitled to, and to define what that means.” — Atlantic
“A work of staggering honesty . . . . Poignantly told.” — New Republic
“The book’s short, sharp chapters come alive in vivid personal anecdotes. . . . And on nearly every page, Gay’s raw, powerful prose plants a flag, facing down decades of shame and self-loathing by reclaiming the body she never should have had to lose.” — Entertainment Weekly
“Bracingly vivid. . . . Remarkable. . . . Undestroyed, unruly, unfettered, Ms. Gay, live your life. We are all better for having you do so in the same ferociously honest fashion that you have written this book.” — Los Angeles Times
“Searing, smart, readable. . . . “Hunger,” like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me,” interrogates the fortunes of black bodies in public spaces. . . .  Nothing seems gratuitous; a lot seems brave. There is an incantatory element of repetition to “Hunger”: The very short chapters scallop over the reader like waves.” — Newsday
“Luminous. . . . intellectually rigorous and deeply moving.” — The New York Times Book Review
“Her spare prose, written with a raw grace, heightens the emotional resonance of her story, making each observation sharper, each revelation more riveting. . . . It is a thing of raw beauty.” — USA Today
“Powerful. . . . fierce. . . . Gay has a vivid, telegraphic writing style, which serves her well. Repetitive and recursive, it propels the reader forward with unstoppable force.” — Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
“This is the book to read this summer . . . she’s such a compelling mind . . . . Anyone who has a body should read this book.” — Isaac Fitzgerald on the TODAY Show
“Unforgettable. . . . Breathtaking. . . . We all need to hear what Gay has to say in these pages. . . . Gay says hers is not a success story because it’s not the weight-loss story our culture demands, but her breaking of her own silence, her movement from shame and self-loathing toward honoring and forgiving and caring for herself, is in itself a profound victory.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Hunger is Gay at her most lacerating and probing. . . . Anyone familiar with Gay’s books or tweets knows she also wields a dagger-sharp wit.” — Boston Globe
“Wrenching, deeply moving. . . a memoir that’s so brave, so raw, it feels as if [Gay]’s entrusting you with her soul.” — Seattle Times
“It is a deeply honest witness, often heartbreaking, and always breathtaking. . . . Gay is one of our most vital essayists and critics.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Searing.” — Miami Herald
“This raw and graceful memoir digs deeply into what it means to be comfortable in one’s body. Gay denies that hers is a story of “triumph,” but readers will be hard pressed to find a better word.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. . . . An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Displays bravery, resilience, and naked honesty from the first to last page. . . . Stunning . . . essential reading.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“A work of exceptional courage by a writer of exceptional talent.” — Shelf Awareness (starred review)
Praise for Bad Feminist:“A strikingly fresh cultural critic.” — Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your sharpest critic. . . . She is by turns provocative, chilling, hilarious; she is also required reading.” — People
“[Gay is] hilarious. But she also confronts more difficult issues of race, sexual assault, body image, and the immigrant experience. She makes herself vulnerable and it’s refreshing.” — Tanvi Misra, Atlantic, "The Best Book I Read This Year"

Notă biografică

Roxane Gay is the author of the essay collection Bad Feminist, which was a New York Times bestseller; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the memoir Hunger, which was a New York Times bestseller and received a National Book Critics Circle citation; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. A contributing opinion writer to the New York Times, she has also written for Time, McSweeney's, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Bookforum, and Salon. Her fiction has also been selected for The Best American Short Stories 2012, The Best American Mystery Stories 2014, and other anthologies. She is the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She lives in Lafayette, Indiana, and sometimes Los Angeles.

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  From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.

It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enlightenment - both for the reader who has lived through this kind of unimaginable pain, and for the reader who knows nothing of it. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. HUNGER is an amazing achievement in more ways than I can count. - Ann Patchett