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Life After Death de Damien Echols

Life After Death

Autor Damien Echols
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mai 2013

Cum poate un om să supraviețuiască timp de optsprezece ani într-o celulă de câțiva metri pătrați, așteptând o execuție pentru o crimă pe care nu a comis-o, fără să își piardă mințile sau umanitatea? Descoperim în Life After Death paradoxul unei existențe care a înflorit spiritual tocmai în cel mai steril și ostil mediu imaginabil. Damien Echols nu ne oferă doar o cronică a unei erori judiciare monumentale, ci un studiu intim despre cum mintea poate transcende zidurile de beton prin lectură, scris și meditație. Reținem din paginile sale o perspectivă unică asupra sistemului judiciar american, unde superstiția și panica morală au cântărit mai mult decât probele ADN. Narativul amintește de Devil's Knot prin intensitatea cu care reconstituie atmosfera toxică a procesului din Arkansas, însă, spre deosebire de abordarea jurnalistică a Marei Leveritt, Echols ne poartă în interiorul propriei sale conștiințe. Dacă în lucrări ulterioare precum Angels and Archangels sau Ritual, autorul se concentrează pe mecanismele magiei și ale spiritualității ca instrumente de transformare, aici vedem geneza acestor preocupări. Cartea este rădăcina filozofiei sale de viață: o mărturie despre cum ritualul și disciplina mentală i-au devenit singurele arme de supraviețuire. Putem afirma că volumul depășește granițele genului „true crime”. Deși include detalii fascinante despre viața de zi cu zi în închisoare, susținute de cele 16 pagini de fotografii documentare, nucleul cărții este unul profund umanist. Tonul este melancolic, dar rezistent, oferind o lecție despre demnitate în fața unei mașinării birocratice care l-a declarat mort înainte de vreme. Este o lectură despre puterea cuvântului scris de a păstra vie scânteia identității atunci când tot restul lumii încearcă să o stingă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780142180280
ISBN-10: 0142180289
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: 16 pp color photos on insert stock
Dimensiuni: 136 x 213 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o poveste autentică de reziliență în fața unei nedreptăți sistemice. Dincolo de detaliile faimosului caz al celor „West Memphis Three”, cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care spiritualitatea și literatura pot salva un om de la disperare. Este o mărturie esențială pentru oricine este interesat de psihologia supraviețuirii și de realitățile dure ale sistemului penal, scrisă cu o onestitate brutală.

Despre autor

Damien Echols, născut în 1974, a devenit figura centrală a cazului „West Memphis Three” după ce a fost condamnat pe nedrept la moarte în 1993. Timp de 18 ani, a trăit în izolare, timp în care s-a dedicat studiului tradițiilor ezoterice și meditației. Eliberarea sa în 2011 a fost rezultatul unei campanii globale de susținere, sprijinită de personalități precum Peter Jackson și Johnny Depp. Astăzi, Echols este un autor de succes și un practicant al artelor ceremoniale, explorând în lucrările sale teme precum magia rituală și transformarea conștiinței, transformându-și trauma într-o sursă de învățătură spirituală.

Descriere scurtă

The New York Times bestselling memoir by Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of three murders and spent nearly eighteen years on Death Row—Life After Death is destined to be a classic of explosive, riveting prison literature.

Recenzii

“[Echols] has written a haunting book, and the story it tells is hardly over. He is living out a sequel that is no less strange and magickal than what he has already been through.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
 
"[A] tale of romance, resilience, and the power of the written word." —O, the Oprah Magazine
 
“Damien Echols spent eighteen years on death row for murders he did not commit. Somehow, in the depths of his unspeakable nightmare, he found the courage and strength not only to survive, but to grow, to create, to forgive, and to understand. Life After Death is a brilliant, haunting, painful, and uplifting narrative of a hopeless childhood, a wrongful conviction, a brutal incarceration, and the beginning of a new life.”
—John Grisham
 
“Wrongfully imprisoned by willfully ignorant cops, prosecutors and judge, Damien Echols draws on all his wits and his unique view of humanity to survive eighteen years on death row. My admiration for him, and the strength of his spirit, increases with every page.”
 —Sir Peter Jackson, Academy Award-winning director, producer and screenwriter
 
“I am in awe of Damien's ability to write so beautifully, with such ease, humor and honesty—this is inspired storytelling, a wonderful book!”
 —Fran Walsh, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, composer and producer
 
“The life of Damien Echols is a journey similar to that of the metal that becomes a samurai’s sword. Heated and pounded until it becomes hardened, it can hold its edge for centuries. It is incredible that Damien endured and survived one of the most tragic miscarriages of American justice, and emerged such a centered, articulate and extraordinary man and writer. Life After Death proves that he paid dearly for his wisdom.”
—Henry Rollins
 
“Exceptional memoir by the most famous of the West Memphis Three. [B]are facts alone would make for an interesting story. However, Echols is at heart a poet and mystic, and he has written not just a quickie one-off book to capitalize on a lurid news story, but rather a work of art that occasionally bears a resemblance to the work of Jean Genet. A voracious reader all his life, Echols vividly tells his story, from his impoverished childhood in a series of shacks and mobile homes to his emergence after half a lifetime behind bars as a psychically scarred man rediscovering freedom in New York City. The author also effectively displays his intelligence and sensitivity, qualities the Arkansas criminal justice system had no interest in recognizing during Echols’ ordeal. Essential reading.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
 
“This is a stunning piece of work. Such hope while faced with injustice. Damien teaches us how to live.”
—Eddie Vedder
 
“[Echols’] case garnered worldwide attention, but [his] memoir is about as far away from a publicity-seeking I-was-wronged story as possible. The author opts for a meatier, and certainly more haunting, account of his life behind bars, coupled with flashbacks to his childhood....Echols is a talented writer, and when the book dips into his own spiritual and philosophical beliefs...it achieves the kind of emotional resonance that many similar books lack....A tragic and often disturbing story."
—Booklist
 
"Damien Echols suffered a shocking miscarriage of justice. A nightmare few could endure. An innocent man on death row for more than eighteen years, abused by the very system we all fund. His story will appall, fascinate, and render you feeble with tears and laughter. A brilliant memoir to battle with literary giants of the calibre of Jean Genet, Gregory David Roberts, and Dostoevsky."
—Johnny Depp
 
“[T]his is an eloquent, even bitterly lyrical, portrayal of how an innocent man can slip through the cracks of the legal system and struggle to survive. Compelling and deeply moving, in the tradition of Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking and Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, this memoir will appeal to a wide audience.”
—Library Journal (starred)
 
“In this searing, finely wrought memoir, Echols recalls his poverty-stricken childhood, the trial of the West Memphis 3, and the harsh realities of life on death row … The most affecting sections are Echols’s philosophical musings on all he has lost, his thoughts often influenced by Zen Buddhism….a heart-wrenching and simple commentary on American prison life.”
—Publisher’s Weekly (starred)
 
“[A] tale of romance, resilience, and the power of the written word.”
—Stephanie Palumbo, O, The Oprah Magazine
“Echols is a writer whose talent is commensurate with the task of telling this story....The man who has emerged from death row at last is not quite a hero, but he’s something far more interesting: an artist—and, most definitely, well worth meeting.”
—Laura Miller, Salon.com
 
“Gripping…Echols has already lived a remarkable life, one forged in tragedy and all manner of iniquity. That he is able to write so movingly about the many trials he endured speaks volumes about his intellect and character.”
—Jesse Singal, The Boston Globe

Notă biografică

Damien Echols was born in 1974 and grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. At age eighteen he was wrongfully convicted of murder, along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley, Jr. Echols received a death sentence and spent almost eighteen years on Death Row, until he, Baldwin, and Misskelley were released in 2011. The West Memphis Three have been the subject of Paradise Lost, a three-part documentary series produced by HBO, and West of Memphis, a documentary produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. Echols is the author of a self-published memoir, Almost Home. He and his wife, Lorri Davis, live in Massachusetts.

Descriere

The "New York Times"-bestselling memoir by Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of committing three murders and spent 18 years on death row. In 1993, three teenagers were arrested for the murders of three boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was rife with inconsistencies, false testimony, and superstition.