Lost on Me
Autor Veronica Raimo Traducere de Leah Janeczkoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 iun 2023
Ca și While I'm Falling de Laura Moriarty, acest roman explorează fragilitatea legăturilor de familie și procesul dureros de maturizare, dar dintr-o perspectivă marcată de un umor caustic și o ironie specific italiană. În Lost on Me, Veronica Raimo ne invită în universul intim al lui Vero, o tânără care navighează prin absurdul cotidian al unei familii romane disfuncționale. Considerăm că forța acestei scrieri rezidă în modul în care autoarea transformă anxietatea maternă și obsesiile paterne într-o materie primă pentru ficțiune, oferindu-ne o meditație profundă asupra identității. Remarcăm o structură narativă ce pendulează între candoare și o brutalitate rece a observației. De la încercarea eșuată de a fugi la Paris la vârsta de cincisprezece ani, până la micile escrocherii menite să-i finanțeze evadările, parcursul lui Vero este cel al unei „minciuni artistice” necesare supraviețuirii psihice. Față de lucrarea sa anterioară, Nichts davon ist wahr, unde dinamica familială era deja un pilon central, Lost on Me rafinează această temă, transformând-o într-o analiză a felului în care scriitorul își canibalizează propria viață pentru a crea artă. Găsim în această carte o voce narativă seducătoare, care ne amintește de subtilitatea din Farewell, Ghosts de Nadia Terranova, însă Raimo alege să combată melancolia cu un spirit ludic și o autoironie neiertătoare. Este o lectură despre „arta de a deveni”, unde granița dintre adevăr și invenție devine fluidă, demonstrând că, uneori, singura cale spre libertate este povestea pe care alegi să o spui despre tine însuți.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0802162045
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 201 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm Lost on Me cititorilor care apreciază proza contemporană europeană cu un puternic caracter introspectiv. Este o carte pentru cei care au iubit vocea onestă din romanele Elenei Ferrante, dar care caută un ton mai ironic și mai modern. Câștigul cititorului este o perspectivă eliberatoare asupra propriilor eșecuri și o înțelegere mai profundă a mecanismelor prin care memoria și imaginația se întrepătrund pentru a ne defini trecutul.
Despre autor
Veronica Raimo este o voce centrală a literaturii italiene contemporane, fiind autoarea a patru romane apreciate. Lucrarea sa Lost on Me (publicată original sub titlul Niente di Vero) a confirmat succesul său literar, fiind nominalizată la International Booker Prize 2024 și premiată cu Strega Giovani. Pe lângă cariera de romancieră, Raimo este o traducătoare reputată, aducând în limba italiană operele unor autori emblematici precum F. Scott Fitzgerald, Octavia E. Butler și Ursula K. Le Guin. Experiența sa în traducere și jurnalism cultural își pune amprenta pe stilul său precis și nuanțat. În prezent, locuiește și scrie în Roma.
Descriere scurtă
"Already a bestseller and award-winner in Italy, Lost on Me is a burningly witty coming-of-age novel of a young woman in a wildly eccentric family from one of Italy's most celebrated young writers working today. In this distinctly contemporary, irreverent, and hilariously inverted bildungsroman, award-winning Italian author Veronica Raimo transforms neurosis, sex, and family disaster into brilliant comedy reminiscent of Fleabag and Portnoy's Complaint. Born into a family with an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the center of their attention, our heroine Vero languishes in boredom in her childhood home. Peering through tiny windows at children in the streets below while cramped in her family coven, Vero periodically attempts to strike out but is no match for her mother's relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery. Vero's every venture outside their Rome apartment ends in her being hilariously returned home. It's no wonder then that she becomes a writer-and a liar-inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity. Spiky and witty, Vero delights in her own devious schemes. As she guides us through her failed attempts at emancipation, her discovery of sex and fixations with unwitting men, and ultimately her contentious relationship with reality, she also brings alive Rome from the 1980s through the early 2000s. With restless intelligence and covert tenderness Veronica Raimo takes the traditional family novel tropes and flips them inside out. Pointed, feisty, and pulsing with a brilliant comic energy, Lost on Me takes on the uncertain enterprise of becoming a woman"--
Notă biografică
Veronica Raimo is the author of four novels, the most recent of which, Lost On Me (Niente di Vero) was shortlisted for the Premio Strega Prize and won the Strega Off Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize. Her 2019 novel The Girl at the Door (Miden) was called "Darkly amusing...profoundly feminist" by Jezebel and "tight and provocative" by Salon. Her stories have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, here and abroad. She wrote the collection of poems Le bambinacce with Marco Rossari. She cowrote the script for the film Sleeping Beauty (2012) by director Marco Bellocchio. She contributes cultural articles to various Italian publications, and her translations into Italian include works by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Octavia. E. Butler, Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. Le Guin. Film rights to Lost On Me were acquired by Fandango and the book will also be published in the UK, France and Germany.
Descriere
The prize-winning 100,000-copy Italian bestseller
A 2023 book of the year for the Financial Times, the Irish Times, the New European, Marie Claire and Largehearted Boy
'Deliciously enjoyable' Katherine Heiny
'I adored it' Naoise Dolan
'Wild, funny and disturbing' Roddy Doyle
'Thrillingly original' Monica Ali
'It would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed' Big Issue
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A delightfully funny Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art
Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen; she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend's house after they have been together for less than a week; and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all, she falls in love - repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates.
As she continues to plot escapades and her mother's relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder that Vero becomes a writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.
Narrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, Lost on Me seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity (beginning with Vero's first artistic achievement: a painting she steals from a school classmate and successfully claims as her own). Deceptively simple, its tenderness offset by moments of cool brutality, Lost on Me is a masterwork of human observation.
Recenzii
Funny and tender
Wild, funny and disturbing, all I ask of a book about mothers and their daughters.
Excellent ... written in a spare and precise style from the pen of a biting narrator. It would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed
Remarkable. A darkly funny novel of rhythm, subtlety and nuance ... a writer who deserves as wide an audience as possible
Restless and sly ... intelligently spiky
I fell head over heels in love with Lost on Me. What a thrillingly original voice! Raimo writes with a tender brutality that is simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking
I adored Lost on Me. With combustive prose and oxidising wit, Veronica Raimo sets fire to the Bildungsroman. A clear-eyed comedic talent who bends the novel form to her will
A uproariously funny portrait of an unconventional family from a writer who knows the sliver of ice in the heart as well as she knows love. This deliciously enjoyable novel is a true original and one to savour
When the book you start reading is immediately hilarious and deeply disturbing, you know you're onto something special. Lost on Me is that book
Is it possible, today, to completely reinvent auto-fiction? For Veronica Raimo it clearly is. Get ready to talk about this book for a long, long time
This book made me want to clear my calendar and read everything of Raimo's I could get my hands on. Incisive, engrossing, and deeply funny
Like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, Veronica Raimo mocks the absurdities of her family life as well as tries to reconcile her own ambiguous feelings. A bold, provocative, and original book
A desecrating and tender portrait of family that reels us in from the very first lines
Many pages in this novel are so intense and unscrupulous that one feels the apprehension of being caught spying in a stranger's mailbox
Reading this novel is a blast ... Many of the pages are jellyfish stings: they burn on and on
Veronica Raimo is a stupendous comedian
A story that nails us down with a powerful first-person voice, clear and exhilarating.
With its stellar voice, Raimo's inquisitive and vulnerable novel proves tough to put down
Lost on Me is the naughty grandson of Natalia Ginzburg's Family Lexicon ... Raimo has tapped the novelistic potential of her affections and has transformed them into comedy. The result deserves all of the praise flaunted on the cover
Filled with humour and neuroses ... a witty and complex portrait of a woman becoming herself
Lost on Me was anything but; I was utterly seduced by this wry and fearless novel featuring the unforgettable voice of Vero, a young woman with a sharp sense of humour and a splendid eye for the absurd
What a fresh, vivid and unpredictable voice, bursting with life, I loved it. Finally something that's not like everything else.
This bittersweet work of autofiction charts Verika's journey through her neurotic childhood to womanhood and her attempts - literal and metaphorical - to escape her family and their influence. Smart, funny ... a sharply tender portrait of a young woman's becoming
If Sheila Heti was Italian and wrote a modern Franny & Zooey, it would approximate how powerful and magnificent Veronica Raimo's novel Lost on Me is.
Infused with a hilarious dry wit wrung from a wry attitude to life, Lost On Me stands out as a brilliant and inventive modern novel in English thanks to an outstanding translation for which Leah Janeczko deserves much credit
If you enjoy Deborah Levy or Natalia Ginzburg, then you'll appreciate the writing of Italian author and translator, Veronica Raimo. Deeply original and with kudos from Naoise Dolan and Katherine Heiny, this bildungsroman follows Vero, a 15-year-old girl, writer and compulsive liar as she plots various bids for freedom, all of which are thwarted by her savvy mother. The film rights have been snapped up by Fandango, so look out for news of a future movie
A brilliant example of the best in translated fiction: Leah Janeczko maintains the book's innate ambiguity and swerving nuance to produce one of the best novels in translation of recent years
Absolutely fantastic. I'm often at a loss for what to say or how to even describe a book that envelops one as totally as this one did.
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