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Pure de Andrew Miller

Pure

Autor Andrew Miller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mai 2012

Imaginea de deschidere a romanului Pure ne așază în inima Parisului anului 1785, unde aerul este greu, irespirabil, otrăvit de miasmele celui mai vechi cimitir al orașului, Les Innocents. Suntem de părere că Andrew Miller reușește o performanță rară: transformarea unui șantier de demolare într-o scenă de teatru metafizic. Jean-Baptiste Baratte, un tânăr inginer plin de idealismul epocii luminilor, sosește în capitală cu misiunea primită de la rege de a șterge de pe fața pământului această sursă de infecție. Ceea ce începe ca un triumf al logicii și al igienei moderne asupra superstiției și tradiției devine rapid o coborâre în măruntaiele unei societăți care stă să explodeze. Apreciem modul în care autorul construiește tensiunea; pe măsură ce mormintele sunt golite, Baratte simte că nu doar pământul este excavat, ci și propria sa identitate și siguranță. Forța narativă a lui Rafael Sabatini din The Trampling of the Lilies combinată cu sensibilitatea istorică din The Executioner's Daughter de Hunter J. W. Burke se regăsesc aici, însă Andrew Miller aduce un glas propriu, mult mai introspectiv și senzorial. Dacă în The Land in Winter sau The Slowworm's Song autorul explora vinovăția și izolarea, în Pure el plasează aceste teme într-un context de efervescență istorică. Este un roman despre pragul dintre lumi, scris cu o eleganță care contrastează frapant cu subiectul visceral al deshumării.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781609450670
ISBN-10: 1609450671
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 139 x 217 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Europa Editions

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Pure celor care caută o incursiune hipnotică în Parisul pre-revoluționar. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care progresul se ciocnește cu sacrul și cu trecutul. Este o lectură densă, premiată cu Costa Book of the Year, ideală pentru pasionații de beletristică istorică ce preferă profunzimea psihologică în locul simplei aventuri.

Despre autor

Andrew Miller este un scriitor britanic de prestigiu, recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa extraordinară de a locui orice epocă istorică. Primul său roman, „Ingenious Pain”, a fost recompensat cu premiile James Tait Black Memorial și International IMPAC Award. Cariera sa este marcată de recunoaștere constantă, fiind nominalizat la Booker Prize pentru romanele „Oxygen” și, mai recent, pentru The Land in Winter. Locuiește în Brighton și este considerat unul dintre cei mai abili cronicari ai inimii și minții umane din literatura contemporană de limbă engleză.

Descriere scurtă

Jean-Baptiste Baratte, an engineer of modest origin, arrives in the city in 1785, charged by the King’s minister with emptying the overflowing cemetery of Les Innocents, a ancient site whose stench is poisoning the neighborhood’s air and water and leaving a vile taste in its inhabitants’ food. At first the ambitious Baratte sees his work as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to both his own demise and that of the monarchy. Baratte expects the task to be unpleasant but cannot foresee the dramas and calamities it will trigger, or the incident that will transform his life. As unrest against the court of Louis XVI mounts, the engineer realizes that the future he had planned may no longer be the one he wants. His assignment becomes a year of relentless work, exhuming of mummified corpses and listening to the chants of priests, a year of assault and sudden death. A year of friendship, too, and of desire and love. A year unlike any other he has lived.

Recenzii

'One of the most brilliant aspects of Miller's writing is his ability to question unobtrusively, through style alone, sentimentality about both life under the Bourbons and the creative destruction of revolution ... he has an instinctive knack for casting bright similes, never overextended, that ripple suggestively ... The writing throughout is crystalline, uncontrived, striking and intelligent. You could call it pure.'

'Every so often a historical novel comes along that is so natural, so far from pastiche, so modern, that it thrills and expands the mind. PURE is one ... Miller's newly minted sentences are arresting, often unsettling and always thought-provoking. Exquisite inside and out, PURE is a near-faultless thing: detailed, symbolic and richly evocative of a time, place and man in dangerous flux. It is brilliance distilled, with very few impurities.'

'Quietly powerful, consistently surprising, PURE is a fine addition to substantial body of work ... pre-revolutionary Paris is evoked in pungent detail ... By concentrating on the bit players and byways of history, Miller conjures up an eerily tangible vanished world.'

'Murder, rape, seduction and madness impel this elegant novel ... Within this physical and political decay, Miller couches the heart of the matter: how to live one's life with personal integrity, with a purity not so much morally unblemished as unalloyed with the fads and opinions of society ... Miller populates Baratte's quest for equanimity with lush and tart characters, seductively fleshed out, who collectively help to deliver the bittersweet resolution of his professional and personal travails.'

'Very atmospheric... Although the theme may sound macabre, Miller's eloquent novel overflows with vitality and colour. It is packed with personal and physical details that evoke 18th-century Paris with startling immediacy. Above all he brings off that difficult trick of making the reader care about an unsymapthetic character. If you enjoyed Patrick Suskind's Perfume, you'll love this.'

'It is an audacious novelist who can so knowingly prefigure the symbolism at the heart of his own work without threatening the success of the entire enterprise. It is fortunate, then, that Miller is a writer of subtlety and skill...Unlike many parables, however, PURE is neither laboured nor leaden. Miller writes like a poet, with a deceptive simplicity - his sentences and images are intense distillations, conjuring the fleeting details of existence with clarity. He is also a very humane writer, whose philosophy is tempered always with an understanding of the flaws and failings of ordinary people...Pure defies the ordinary conventions of storytelling, slipping dream-like between lucidity and a kind of abstracted elusiveness... As Miller proves with this dazzling novel, it is not certainty we need but courage'

'His recreation of pre-Revolutionary Paris is extraordinarily vivid and imaginative, and his story is so gripping that you'll put your life on hold to finish it. Expect this on the Booker longlist, at the very least'

'This is a tale about "the beauty and mystery of what is most ordinary"... Miller lingers up close on details: sour breath, decaying objects, pretty clothes, flames, smells, eyelashes... He is also alive to the dramatic possibilities offered by late-18th-century Paris, a fetid and intoxicating city on the brink of revolution... Miller intimately and pacily imagines how it might have felt to witness it.'

'the book pulls off an ambitious project: to evoke a complex historical period through a tissue of deftly selected details.'

'almost dreamlike, a realistic fantasy, a violent fairytale for adults'

'enthralling...superbly researched, brilliantly narrated and movingly resolved.'

Notă biografică

Andrew Miller’s first novel, Ingenious Pain, won the James Tate Memorial Prize for Fiction. He has since written five novels including Casanova and Oxygen, which was a finalist for the Whitbread Award and the Booker Prize in 2001. He lives in Somerset England.

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⭐ Out now: The Land in Winter, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ⭐

Pure: an enthralling tale of an extraordinary year in pre-revolutionary Paris

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award


'Irresistibly compelling' Sunday Telegraph

'Dazzling' Guardian

'A work of beauty' The Times

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby.

Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.

At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.


Praise for Andrew Miller


'Andrew Miller's writing is a source of wonder and delight' Hilary Mantel

'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind' Sunday Times

'One of the best writers at work today' Telegraph

'A wonderful storyteller' Spectator

'One of those rare novelists who can rock up in any time and place and convincingly inhabit that particular historical moment' The Times