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Libertie

Autor Kaitlyn Greenidge
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 apr 2022

Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă în primul rând în proza sa lirică și imersivă, prin care Kaitlyn Greenidge reușește să transforme datele istorice într-o experiență senzorială profundă. Stilul autoarei este unul de o precizie chirurgicală, dar infuzat cu o sensibilitate poetică ce aduce la viață dilemele unei tinere care refuză să fie definită de așteptările celorlalți. În tradiția lui Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, prin lucrarea sa A Kind of Freedom, acest roman reimaginează lupta generațională pentru demnitate și libertate în contextul rasismului sistemic, însă Greenidge adaugă o dimensiune geografică și culturală nouă prin mutarea perspectivei din New York în Haiti.

Subiectul ne poartă în perioada Reconstrucției, unde Libertie Sampson, o fată născută liberă în Brooklyn, se simte sufocată de viziunea mamei sale. Mama, medic practicant, își dorește ca fiica să îi calce pe urme, dar Libertie este atrasă de muzică și de o căutare a sinelui care nu trece prin sălile de operație. Mai mult, nuanța pielii sale, mai închisă decât a mamei, devine un indicator constant al diferențelor de percepție socială. Atunci când alege să plece în Haiti alături de un tânăr care îi promite egalitatea, ea descoperă că libertatea este o noțiune mult mai fragilă decât sperase.

Structura narativă, reflectată în cuprins prin titluri evocative precum „Nu toate rănile se vindecă” sau „Dragostea adevărată nu cunoaște pericolul”, sugerează o progresie emoțională și spirituală. Față de debutul său We Love You, Charlie Freeman, unde analiza rasismului era ancorată în prezent și în experimente sociale contemporane, în Libertie autoarea alege o abordare istorică mai așezată, dar la fel de incisivă asupra modului în care trecutul ne modelează identitatea actuală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788169028
ISBN-10: 1788169026
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază ficțiunea istorică scrisă cu o voce modernă și nuanțată. Este o lectură despre curajul de a-ți defini propriul drum atunci când modelele de succes ale părinților devin o colivie. Veți câștiga o perspectivă rară asupra vieții comunităților de culoare libere din secolul al XIX-lea și o reflecție profundă despre ce înseamnă cu adevărat să fii „liber” într-o lume care îți impune constant limite.


Despre autor

Kaitlyn Greenidge este o voce marcantă a literaturii contemporane, deținătoare a premiului Whiting și bursieră a programului MFA la Hunter College, unde a studiat sub îndrumarea unor autori precum Peter Carey. Experiența sa ca asistent de cercetare pentru Colson Whitehead și-a pus amprenta asupra rigoarei istorice pe care o demonstrează în lucrările sale. A contribuit cu eseuri și proză scurtă în publicații de prestigiu precum The Believer și New York Times. Prin scrierile sale, Greenidge explorează intersecția dintre rasă, istorie și identitate personală, fiind recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a aduce la lumină perspective marginalizate.


Notă biografică

Kaitlyn Greenidge's debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, was one of The New York Times Critics' Top 10 Books of 2016 and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times, and her writing has also appeared in Vogue, Glamour, Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. Kaitlyn is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. Libertie is her second novel.

Descriere scurtă

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2022A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD A Times Book of the MonthOne of Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Picks'A feat of monumental thematic imagination' - The New York Times Book Review'An elegantly layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not to be missed' - Roxane GayLibertie Sampson was named by her father as he lay dying, in honour of the bright, shining future he was sure was coming. The only daughter of a prosperous Black woman physician, she was born free in a country still blighted by slavery. But she has never felt free. Shrinking from her mother's ambitions for her future, Libertie ventures beyond her insulated community, hoping that somehow, somewhere, she will create a life that feels like her own.Immersive, lyrical and deeply moving, Libertie is a novel about legacy and longing, the story of a young woman struggling to discover what freedom truly means - for herself, and for generations to come.

Recenzii

Greenidge mixes elements of both conventional historical fiction and magical realism into a satisfying and emotionally powerful brew
Kaitlyn Greenidge is good on the contradictions of freedom, and the persistent, sour legacy of slavery, but it is the mother-daughter relationship that makes this novel dazzle
A soaring exploration of what 'freedom' truly means. Libertie is an elegantly layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not to be missed
A feat of monumental thematic imagination ... Greenidge both mines history and transcends time
Greenidge (We Love You, Charlie Freeman) delivers another genius work of radical historical fiction ... This pièce de résistance is so immaculately orchestrated that each character, each setting, and each sentence sings.
With Libertie ... Greenidge is making a stylistic leap with an intricately researched and lushly imagined coming-of-age story set in 19th-century Brooklyn and Jacmel, Haiti ... Both epic and intimate
Sweeping, engrossing
In this singular novel, Kaitlyn Greenidge confronts the anonymizing forces of history with her formidable gifts. Libertie is a glorious, piercing song for the ages- fierce, brilliant, and utterly free.
Greenidge follows up her highly successful debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, with the heart-wrenching fictional story of the young daughter of one of the first female physicians in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, a stunning look at what freedom really means
Pure brilliance. So much will be written about Kaitlyn Greenidge's Libertie--how it blends history and magic into a new kind of telling, how it spins the past to draw deft circles around our present--but none of it will measure up to the singular joy of reading this book.
This is one of the most thoughtful and amazingly beautiful books I've read all year. Kaitlyn Greenidge is a master storyteller.
I want to say that Kaitlyn Greenidge's Libertie is a glorious diasporic literary song, but the novel is so much more than that. A book so deeply invested in the politics and place of silence is one of the most melodious books I've read in decades. The ambition in Libertie is only exceeded by Greenidge's skill. This is it.
Fiercely compelling, and told in a singular, lyrical voice, Libertie is a novel that lives in a specific historical time-the Reconstruction Era-but offers insight into the very modern struggles that still exist surrounding identity, family, love, and freedom ... This is a novel of struggle and triumph, exhaustion and perseverance, rooted in history, but transcendent of it; another masterwork by Kaitlyn Greenidge.
Kaitlyn Greenidge has built a lush, imaginative novel, as dark and beautiful as its namesake yet as relevant today as during its 19th-century setting. I didn't want it to end, and I fear that any attempt to render its complexity with brevity equals a failure to capture the book's vast depth and its conversation with so many other important historical and literary works. A page turner and a gorgeous winner.
The voice that fuels this novel is rooted in the body and rises toward myth, forged of history, ocean salt, iron, and hope. With Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenidge adds an indelible new sound to American literature, and confirms her status as one of our most gifted young writers.
This is a historical novel, a magical novel, a familial novel, a Bildungsroman--a work that defies simple categorization. The complexities herein signify an important writer throwing all her talents and brilliance on the page, offering us more than we deserve. Reading Libertie can feel like reading Toni Morrison. Such a comparison, however, is a disservice to Kaitlyn Greenidge, who is an original light, a writer to emulate, a master of the craft, and a mind we're fortunate to have living among us.
Libertie is a bildungsroman for America in the 21st century, providing us with a spiritual education we sorely need. What is care and what is poison? Where does life end? Where does liberty begin? By creating Libertie--a 19th century "black gal," a modern existential heroine--Greenidge has resurrected more than an ancestor--she has revived the anger and the love, the grief and the pride, and, above all, the fierce need for freedom that still drive our nation today.
Wielding both her knowledge of our history and her incredible sense of story, Kaitlyn Greenidge further establishes herself as one of the sharpest minds working today. Libertie is a novel of epic power and endless grace.
Kaitlyn Greenidge is one of my favorite contemporary minds, and I love her essays and newsletter, but WOW, it is such a pleasure to read this historical novel, which starts in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, and which reminded me that Greenidge's immense talent as a writer shines most brightly through her fiction.
Greenidge is a master of character building ... Libertie is an easy page turner-its simple prose makes the plot digestible and the lyrical sentences sing louder. Libertie combines race, colorism, history, and sexism with the utter human pain of lostness. It's a beautiful telling of gorgeously tragic characters who keep you rooting for them, even as they continue to stray and stray and stray
Greenidge explores issues that are still real today while also inviting readers into historical moments that will be new to many. Just as colorism shapes Libertie's relationships with Black people, classism does, too. There are fine distinctions between those who stole themselves away to freedom and those who were born to it, those who work for themselves and those who work for others ... [She] shows us aspects of history we seldom see in contemporary fiction.
Libertie is epic yet engaging, and gorgeously written.
From icy Brooklyn brownstones to tropical Haiti, the book ties together histories in a way that renders them - especially in today's world - both timeless and timely.
Spectacular ... A revelatory and enchanting piece of historical fiction
Few novels have as strong a sense of place as this fascinating blend of magical realism and African American historical fiction ... Greenidge succeeds beautifully at presenting the complexities of an intense mother-daughter bond ... Greenidge creates a richly layered tapestry of Black communal life, notably Black female life, and the inevitable contradictions and compromises of "freedom."
Exquisite historical fiction that lovingly reminds us to reassess our own present-day commitments to fightingfor, and practicing, freedom.
Engrossing ... With its connections to a history that's illuminated more and more each passing day, Libertie is a superb novel that informs the present and perhaps even the future.
Through the trials and tribulations of its young Black woman protagonist, [Libertie] reveals a commitment to Libertie's coming-of-age journey that mirrors that of Zora Neale Hurston's treatment of Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). By bearing witness to Libertie's efforts to make a world for herself and for future generations, readers are left to consider the nature of freedom itself and the cost of making space for yourself in a world intent on restricting you.
Every bit of Libertie is rich and vibrant, offering the best of what historical fiction can do
Powerful and memorable ... [Greenidge is] a wonderful writer and hypnotic storyteller with a lightness of touch