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Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Autor Sophie Ward
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 aug 2020

Remarcăm încă de la primele pagini o atmosferă de neliniște cerebrală, o pendulare fină între certitudinea subiectivă și rigoarea științifică. Love and Other Thought Experiments nu este doar un roman despre o relație, ci o explorare curajoasă a limitelor percepției umane. Totul începe cu un gest minor, dar terifiant: Rachel se trezește convinsă că o furnică i-a pătruns sub pleoapă, în timp ce partenera ei, Eliza, privește situația prin lentila scepticismului rațional. Această fisură în realitatea lor comună devine punctul de plecare pentru o călătorie narativă ce traversează decenii și dimensiuni.

Construcția este una de o precizie matematică, fiecare capitol fiind modelat după un experiment de gândire filozofic. Apreciem modul în care Sophie Ward reușește să umanizeze concepte abstracte, transformând dilemele logice în mize emoționale profunde. La intersecția dintre What If... de Peg Tittle și The Philosophy of Love de Rebecca Ryan, această operă combină rigoarea exercițiului intelectual cu vulnerabilitatea unei povești de dragoste contemporane. Dacă în The Schoolhouse autoarea analiza izolarea și trauma, aici ea extinde cadrul către universal, chestionând însăși natura conștiinței.

Stilul este fluid, marcat de o imaginație debordantă care amintește de proza speculativă de înaltă clasă. Deși structura este fragmentată în perspective multiple, unitatea romanului rezidă în întrebarea fundamentală care ne urmărește: cum putem fi siguri de realitatea celuilalt? Este un volum care solicită atenția cititorului, oferind în schimb o experiență de lectură stratificată, unde filozofia nu este doar decor, ci motorul principal al dramei umane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472154606
ISBN-10: 1472154606
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 124 x 196 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută în beletristică mai mult decât o simplă succesiune de evenimente. Veți câștiga o perspectivă inedită asupra marilor întrebări ale filozofiei, aplicate pe fragilitatea relațiilor umane. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care au apreciat profunzimea intelectuală din „Hamnet” sau „Shuggie Bain”, oferind un hibrid rar între romanul de idei și proza psihologică fină, totul sub egida unei nominalizări la Booker Prize.


Despre autor

Sophie Ward este o prezență polivalentă în peisajul cultural britanic, fiind cunoscută atât pentru cariera sa de actriță în producții precum „Heartbeat”, cât și pentru vocea sa literară distinctă. Debutul său, Love and Other Thought Experiments, a fost rapid recunoscut pentru ambiția sa intelectuală, fiind nominalizat pe lista lungă a Booker Prize în 2020. Preocupările sale filozofice se reflectă și în lucrările academice, precum studiul despre piesele lui Shakespeare și politicile educaționale. Ulterior, a confirmat statutul de „provocator literar” prin romane precum The Schoolhouse și Our Better Natures, explorând constant intersecția dintre minte, etică și emoție.


Descriere

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald' Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail'An act of such breath-taking imagination, daring and detail that the journey we are on is believable and the debate in the mind non-stop. There are elements of Doris Lessing in the writing - a huge emerging talent here' Fiona Shaw'A towering literary achievement' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost ThingsRachel and Eliza are planning their future together. One night in bed Rachel wakes up terrified and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there.

Rachel is certain; Eliza, a scientist, is sceptical. Suddenly their entire relationship is called into question. What follows is a uniquely imaginitive sequence of interlinked stories ranging across time, place and perspective to form a sparkling philosophical tale of love, lost and found across the universe.


Recenzii

Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald
a genuinely affective family narrative that is emotionally compelling as well as intellectually stimulating. Surely not since Jostein Gaarder's 1991 novel Sophie's World, has an author produced such an imaginative and original synthesis of fiction and philosophy
In Love and Other Thought Experiments, Ward proposes to alter the colour of her readers' minds . . . But the success of Ward's venture inevitably depends on the quality of the writing. This is often moving, exuberant and sensitive. We care about her characters and share their hopes and fears. Ward's investigation and practice of empathy is easily the best thing in the book.
Brimming with close observation . . . the sheer literary ambition on show is impressive, with Ward producing a highly original first novel that echoes European experimentalists such as Kundera and Krasznahorkai
Ward has achieved something quite extraordinary: a super-smart metaphysical romp that's also warm, wistful and heartfelt. A book that declares, winningly, that just because it's all in your head, it doesn't mean it's not real.
It is an act of such breath-taking imagination, daring and detail that the journey we are on is believable and the debate in the mind non-stop. There are elements of Doris Lessing in the writing - a huge emerging talent here
Ward's ingenious fiction debut stands in a tradition of philosophical fiction: Voltaire's Candide, Sartre's Nausea . . . [Her] writing is often moving, exuberant and sensitive . . . gifts of bravura wit and imagination
Love and Other Thought Experiments is a towering literary achievement. Sophie's prose is exquisite and her storytelling powerful, poignant and utterly gripping. An astonishing debut
Philosophy meets fiction in this beguiling and intriguing novel of minds, hearts, other worlds, love, death and everything in between. It's a book that dances and dazzles with ideas and left me thinking long after I finished it
Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Ward's writing is as clear as a knife sounded against a glass and just as attention-grabbing. Fiction, fable and philosophy combined together with real human folly and fate at its heart. This book is as hard to pin down as it's impossible to forget
I loved Love and Other a Thought Experiments. Each chapter works as a story, immersive and compelling, and then the wider structure takes over, the harmonics sound out, and it accumulates into a universe of its own. Really ingenious, full of wisdom, full of love
Love and Other Thought Experiments is acutely original and thought-provoking. From beginning to end it is beautifully observed, intelligently constructed and deftly handled. Love and Other Thought Experiments is as multi-faceted as a diamond; a true philosophical hoard; a book I shall always treasure
Sophie Ward is an innovative and highly sophisticated writer
Elegant, erudite, brave and moving, Sophie Ward's debut is a stunning achievement
Love and Other Thought Experiments is brilliant and playful. From the first page you know you're in a unique and compelling universe of Ward's making
A game changer
'Philosophy meets fiction in this beguiling and intriguing novel of minds, hearts, other worlds, love, death and everything in between' Sophie Kinsella

Rachel and Eliza are planning their future together. One night in bed Rachel wakes up terrified and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there. Rachel is certain; Eliza, a scientist, is sceptical. Suddenly their entire relationship is called into question. What follows is a uniquely imaginitive sequence of interlinked stories ranging across time, place and perspective to form a sparkling philosophical tale of love, lost and found across the universe.

'Quite extraordinary: a super-smart metaphysical romp that's also warm, wistful and heartfelt. A book that declares, winningly, that just because it's all in your head, it doesn't mean it's not real' Daily Telegraph

'Ward's ingenious fiction debut stands in a tradition of philosophical fiction: Voltaire's Candide, Sartre's Nausea . . . [Her] writing is often moving, exuberant and sensitive . . . gifts of bravura wit and imagination' Guardian

'Brimming with close observation . . . the sheer literary ambition on show is impressive, with Ward producing a highly original first novel that echoes European experimentalists such as Kundera and Krasznahorkai' Spectator