Peach
Autor Emma Glassen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 ian 2019
Într-un decor cotidian care devine brusc ostil — printre cursuri la facultate, teme și prezența unui nou bebeluș în familie — Peach, o adolescentă obișnuită, se trezește captivă într-un univers refractat. Putem afirma că alegerea acestui cadru domestic nu este întâmplătoare; contrastul dintre familiaritatea căminului și trauma care fragmentează percepția realității accentuează sentimentul de izolare profundă. Suntem de părere că forța acestui debut constă în modul în care Emma Glass refuză convențiile narative clasice, optând pentru o proză senzorială, aproape tactilă, unde cuvintele par să pulseze pe pagină.
Notăm cu interes cum autoarea reușește să transforme trauma într-o experiență lingvistică. Dacă This Is Yesterday de Rose Ruane v-a captivat prin explorarea tensiunilor din viața de familie și a modului în care trecutul revine sub forme neașteptate, Peach extinde această experiență în direcția unei interiorități viscerale, unde limbajul devine un instrument de supraviețuire. Spre deosebire de realismul poetic al altor scrieri contemporane, aici textul este feroce și dens, cerând o implicare totală din partea cititorului.
Această lucrare marchează începutul unei explorări tematice pe care Emma Glass o va continua și în Rest and Be Thankful. Dacă în acea operă ulterioară se concentrează pe epuizarea și dăruirea unei asistente medicale, în Peach vedem germenii aceleiași preocupări pentru corp și vulnerabilitate, însă printr-o lentilă mult mai abstractă și experimentală. Este un roman polițist al psihicului, unde miza nu este doar descoperirea vinovatului, ci refacerea unei identități spulberate de un eveniment nenumit.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1408886510
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 132 x 198 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza scurtă, dar intensă, situată la granița dintre literatură și poezie. Este o lectură ideală pentru fanii scriiturii viscerale a lui Daisy Johnson. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care trauma poate fi redată prin limbaj, într-un format compact, de doar 112 pagini, care se parcurge dintr-o singură suflare, lăsând însă o amprentă emoțională durabilă.
Descriere
SELECTED BY THE INDEPENDENT AND THE OBSERVER AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
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'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature ' - George Saunders, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize
'Poetic' - Independent
'The language is scintillating, the emotional heft remarkable' - Observer
'Daring' - Sunday Times
'Ferocious, startling, all-consuming' - Daisy Johnson, author of Fen
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Peach is a teenage girl like any other. She has college, and her friends, and her parents and the new baby, and her gorgeous boyfriend Green. She has her friend Sandy, and Sid the cat, and homework to do.
But something has happened - something unspeakable - and her world has become unfamiliar, fractured into strange textures and patterns. Reeling through her refracted universe, Peach knows that the people she loves are in danger, real danger. If she is not to be swallowed whole, Peach must summon all her courage and dig deep into something nameless and strange that lies within her.
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'Powerfully felt, sinister, vivid' - Literary Review
'This is a book to be devoured in a single sitting. Glass is an exciting new author to know' - Vogue
'An impressive achievement' - Big Issue
Recenzii
Emma Glass's fictional debut - a novella-cum-prose poem - packs one hell of a punch . Glass's commitment to the visceral is like nothing else I've read . Peach inhabits a strange, horror-story realm of the hyperreal, and Glass's vision goes a long way towards portraying an experience that's near-impossible to articulate
Addressing an all-too-relevant issue, the novel charts the physical and psychological effects on Peach through stylised, poetic prose, self-confessedly informed by James Joyce's experiments with language. Referenced variously as "the new Jane Eyre", "intimately weird" and "exhilaratingly bold"
Glass's tale of a girl neglected by her parents and abused by others is a dark poetic read that is a visceral in its telling. It's an extraordinary debut that we urge you to seek out
Peach by Emma Glass is a short and brutal tale of sexual assault and its resulting traumas that carries clear echoes of Eimear McBride ... The language is scintillating, the emotional heft remarkable
Peach is shocking, revealing and deals with a subject most authors would shy away from. It is uncomfortable, worthy and brave .Glass deserves recognition for her bravery regarding both the topic and style
A visceral work . Glass uses fragmented, sensory language to evoke the lasting trauma of a sexual assault, from dissociative episodes to body dysmorphia. But for all its emotional insight, the book's boldest choice is its suspension between fantasy and reality
Genre-defying and brilliantly surreal novella ... Barely 100 pages, and somewhere between poetry and prose, this is a book to be devoured in a single sitting. Glass is an exciting new author to know
An impressive achievement. There are obvious Joycean and Eimear McBridean influences on her writing, which is rich with onomatopoeia, musical rhythm and graphic, bloody imagery .A truly original voice for the future. Peach is a meeting place for expressionist poetry and Cronenberg-style body horror that's not something you come across every day
A debut of consistently visceral writing ... The dark poetic world of Emma Glass's debut, Peach, immerses the reader in a young woman's personal hell . Through prose that is lyrical, mythic and yet wonderfully clear, Peach expounds on themes of good versus evil, and the base nature of desire, consumption and carnality . There is a spoken word vibrancy to Glass's prose . Not since Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy has such symbolism been used so effectively to make clear one woman's brutal experiences
Surreal and unsettling, experimental and lyrical
A daring novel
Powerfully felt, sinister, vivid
Related in an urgent, rhythmic unspooling of language . Peach's voice is unsettling, idiosyncratic and discomforting, as well as being moving and utterly absorbing . This sense of radical domestic fantasy gives the novel a raw power, as well as provoking multiple interpretations. It may occasionally confound, but Peach is a bold, memorable novel - gripping, strange and utterly singular
Challenging fiction that disrupts narrative forms, provocatively outlandish stream of consciousness set in the aftermath of a sexual assault . A gutsy, discomfiting experiment
It's apt to see that this debut author cites James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Kate Bush and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) in her acknowledgements. Peach is a hypnotic, visceral read ... Lyrically and visually driven, Glass's sentences read like powerful poems, and they encompass so much emotion, you'll find it hard to put this novel down once you start
What it lacks in pages (Peach has just 98), it makes up for in uniqueness
This startling book uses hypervisceral prose to detail how a woman tries to move through ordinary life after being raped. An explosive dramatization of trauma, Glass' short but harrowing Peach provides a propulsive, unforgettable read that's impossible to shake
Choose wisely the moment when you pick up Peach; because once you do you'll be unable to put it down until the very last sentence
Impossible to categorise, intimately weird and exhilaratingly bold, Peach shares literary DNA with Gertrude Stein, Hubert Selby Jr, and Eimear McBride, but Emma Glass's massive talent is all her own
Peach is ferocious, startling, all-consuming ... it has changed the way I see the world
Peach is a work of genius. So lonesome and moving, so gruesome, wry, tender and plaintive. It is the new Jane Eyre, and one wild, thrilling ride. Swallow it in one gulp, and carry a spare copy in your pocket. Always
A mesmerising, deeply disturbing and stylistically daring debut, Peach reads almost like an incantation of dread and fear ... A visceral and unflinching journey through one woman's internal life. Like A Girl is a Half -formed Thing before it, this is a ground-breaking work of experimentation
Glass ... aptly portrays Peach's real and mythical struggles between emotion and reason, power and trauma in this darkly arresting debut
Glass's prose is capable of breathtaking deftness ... A terrifying window into a freshly traumatized psyche. With paragraphs that read like poems, this is a memorably crafted entry into the canon of revenge narratives