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Lila: An Oprah's Book Club Pick de Marilynne Robinson

Lila: An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Autor Marilynne Robinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2015

Amintește de Gilead prin atmosfera sa meditativă și decorul rural din Iowa, dar se diferențiază prin perspectiva sa brută, ancorată în realitatea aspră a celor marginalizați. Dacă în lucrările anterioare ale autoarei exploram interioritatea unui pastor sau dinamica unei familii de orășeni, în acest roman descoperim vocea Lilei, o femeie care a cunoscut doar foamea, frigul și singurătatea înainte de a găsi adăpost în biserica reverendului John Ames. Descoperim aici o scriitură care funcționează ca o rugăciune tăcută, unde ritmul lent permite cititorului să simtă greutatea fiecărei amintiri despre pribegie.

Marilynne Robinson continuă să exploreze temele credinței și ale harului, prezente și în volume precum Home sau Jack, însă aici accentul cade pe conflictul interior al unei supraviețuitoare. Putem afirma că romanul este o interogație asupra modului în care trecutul traumatic poate fi reconciliat cu o existență marcată de siguranță și dogmă religioasă. Stilul autoarei, care amintește de simplitatea biblică, reușește să transforme viața cotidiană a acestui cuplu neobișnuit într-o reflecție profundă despre demnitate și iubire necondiționată. Spre deosebire de Housekeeping, unde singurătatea era aproape un element mistic al naturii, în acest volum ea este o rană socială pe care dragostea încearcă, cu pași timizi, să o vindece. Este o experiență de lectură densă, care nu oferă răspunsuri facile, ci invită la o contemplare asupra misterelor existenței umane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844088829
ISBN-10: 1844088820
Pagini: 261
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza de o înaltă ținută literară și temele filosofice profunde. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra rezilienței umane prin ochii unei eroine de neuitat. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care doresc să exploreze universul premiat al seriei Gilead, oferind o lecție despre compasiune și despre complexitatea relațiilor dintre oameni care provin din lumi diametral opuse.

Despre autor

Marilynne Robinson este o renumită romancieră și eseistă americană, laureată a Premiului Pulitzer pentru Ficțiune în 2005. Născută în 1943, ea a devenit una dintre cele mai influente voci ale literaturii contemporane, fiind inclusă de revista Time în lista celor mai importanți 100 de oameni din lume. Opera sa, care include titluri celebre precum Housekeeping și seria Gilead, este recunoscută pentru explorarea profundă a credinței, a vieții rurale americane și a relației dintre religie și știință. Robinson a predat timp de decenii la prestigiosul Iowa Writers' Workshop, influențând generații întregi de scriitori prin rigoarea și sensibilitatea sa intelectuală.

Descriere

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK

Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the
only available shelter from the rain - and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life.

'One of the greatest living novelists' BRYAN APPLEYARD, SUNDAY TIMES

'Robinson is frequently named as one of America's most significant writers . . . Her questioning books express wonder: they are enlightening, in the best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled understanding of ourselves and of our world' SARAH CHURCHWELL, GUARDIAN

'The work of an exceptional novelist' ROWAN WILLIAMS, NEW STATESMAN

'A sumptuous, graceful and ultimately life-affirming novel' JAMES KIDD, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'Great and luminous beauty . . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation' NEEL MUKHERJEE, INDEPENDENT

Recenzii

A masterpiece . . . Lila is a superb creation
One of the greatest living novelists . . . [Lila is] just as wise, moving and genuine as its predecessors
Robinson brings [the story] to pulsating life in prose of great and luminous beauty . . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation
This superb novel can only add to [Robinson's] already stratospherically high reputation
Lila is a really beautiful book: beautiful prose, beautiful story; morally beautiful too. After reading it the world seems more dazzling, fuller of wonder and mystery than it did before, as if you were newly in love. I wish I could persuade everyone who ever buys a book to read this one
Deeply moving, almost transformative . . . frank and direct, but occasionally moved to ecstasy by the spirit
Tinged with heartbreaking beauty
Although Lila revisits the characters of Robinson's previous books, Gilead, a Pulitzer prizewinner, and Home, a finalist in the American National Book Awards, and brings a certain completeness to their journeys, the book stands well on its own as a powerful search for the meaning of life as well as a touching and unlikely story of love and, ultimately, hope
Robinson is a glorious writer . . . This novel, different in tone from its predecessors, stands beautifully alongside them
There is no one quite like this American writer, or quite as good as her . . . extraordinarily fluent and pitch perfect prose
Measured and lyrical; the sound of this book is akin at times to the Cormac McCarthy of The Road . . . Robinson writes brilliantly about the way people dance warily around each other, never quite coinciding, stricken with longing and love
This third novel in the sequence is, in many ways, the most adventurous of all . . . Lila is the work of an exceptional novelist at the peak of her capacity
Lila is a deeply affecting exploration of existence, love and the inevitability of loneliness. And although enriched by the two preceding books, it has the strength, beauty and originality to be read, enjoyed and appreciated as a standalone work. Written in beautiful, poetic prose, it's a remarkable achievement
A sumptuous, graceful, and ultimately life-affirming novel
Robinson has made a world so palpable and full that each book can stand alone...Taken together, these books will surely be known as one of the great achievements of contemporary literature
Told with measured and absorbing elegance, this account of the growing love and trust between Lila and Reverend Ames is touching and convincing.
Searching and full of grace
Robinson explores eternity, and she does so in a quiet, ruminative style that takes over your heart as well as your head. Once you've fallen under her spell, she's not just mesmerising but indispensable
Robinson's writing can light up consciousness, and make even the most passing thoughts feel indelible. Her older sister in American literature is Emily Dickinson
Lila is a deeply affecting exploration of existence and love
The Gilead novels provide insights into a people whose fates are bound to the land they live on. Iowa must be proud to have such a chronicler among them
As a reader you feel very well looked after by Marilynne Robinson: you are knocked out by the weight of thought, the care, the worry she puts into her work. You find yourself wandering into vast new rooms, as if you're in a fabulous museum you've dreamt up for your own pleasure. There's really no one else writing like this today . . . Lila is just so damnably beautiful
Lila has a power beyond words
Mesmerising . . . reminiscent of the great Victorian novelists . . . Robinson's exquisitely wrought prose resonates
Her questioning books express wonder: they are enlightening, in the best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled understanding of ourselves and of our world
Subtle shifts of loyalties, strange moral priorities make [Robinson's] books compellingly powerful
The giant themes and big questions that sit beneath the surface of Lila's incredibly moving story are compelling
My novel of the year can only be Lila by the inimitable Marilynne Robinson . . .my favourite living author and this once again demonstrates her remarkable gift for psychological depth
Exquisitely observed, an ultimately optimistic journey through the corrosive power of shame to divide and distort
Lila by Marilynne Robinson is the heartbreaking conclusion to her Gilead trilogy
Lila was the book of books this year, an amazing achievement
One of the finest writers in America
Intricate and beautiful
The novel of the year for me was Lila by Marilynne Robinson, revisiting the fictional Gilead of her three previous novels. The prose, as always, is magnificent, pitch-perfect, carrying a moral authority, a gravitas and a spiritual depth. There really is nobody else writing like this
Robinson writes beautifully and, as a sophisticated religious thinker, asks searching questions about faith and doubt
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only available shelter from the rain - and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life.

'Robinson is frequently named as one of America's most significant writers ... Her questioning books express wonder: they are enlightening, in the best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled understanding of ourselves and of our world'
Sarah Churchwell, Guardian

'Lila is the work of an exceptional novelist at the peak of her capacity'
Rowan Williams, New Statesman

'A sumptuous, graceful, and ultimately life-affirming novel'
James Kidd, Independent on Sunday

'Great and luminous beauty . . . a book that leaves the reader feeling what can only be called exaltation'
Neel Mukherjee, Independent