Say Say Say
Autor Lila Savageen Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 aug 2019
Ce rămâne dintr-o iubire atunci când limbajul se pierde, iar identitatea celui drag se fragmentează sub greutatea unei traume fizice? În paginile acestui debut semnat de Lila Savage, asistăm la o explorare profundă a devotamentului prin ochii Ellei, o tânără a cărei carieră artistică a eșuat, transformându-se într-o existență dedicată îngrijirii celor vulnerabili. Suntem de părere că forța narativă a volumului Say Say Say rezidă tocmai în intimitatea aproape inconfortabilă a spațiului domestic, unde prezența Ellei în casa soților Bryn și Jill devine o lentilă prin care sunt reevaluate noțiunile de dorință și compasiune.
Observăm o fragilitate aparte în modul în care autoarea descrie legătura dintre Bryn, tâmplarul care refuză să renunțe la soția sa, și Jill, femeia care mai poate rosti doar silabe repetitive, un ecou al unei vieți anterioare. Stilul este sobru, marcat de o claritate filosofică ce refuză sentimentalismul facil, concentrându-se în schimb pe gesturile mici, cotidiene, ale îngrijirii. Ritmul narativ amintește de tensiunea psihologică din Devotion de Madeline Stevens, însă acolo unde Stevens explorează obsesia și dinamica puterii, Lila Savage alege să disece fluiditatea dorinței și felul în care suferința celuilalt ne poate oglindi propriile lipsuri afective. Este un roman despre „timpul care expiră”, scris cu o onestitate tăioasă care ne forțează să privim spre ceea ce este, adesea, invizibil în relațiile umane.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1788162226
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 138 x 204 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza introspectivă și temele legate de etica îngrijirii și natura iubirii necondiționate. Say Say Say oferă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care dizabilitatea și boala reconfigurează structura unei familii, fiind o lectură esențială pentru cei care caută în beletristică o oglindă a complexității umane, dincolo de convențiile romantice clasice.
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Lila Savage a debutat spectaculos în peisajul literar american cu romanul Say Say Say, lucrare care i-a adus recunoașterea critică și includerea pe listele de final de an ale unor publicații prestigioase precum Wall Street Journal. Stilul său este caracterizat de o precizie observațională remarcabilă, influențată probabil de o înțelegere profundă a psihologiei umane și a dinamicii dintre îngrijitor și pacient. Prin scriitura sa, Savage reușește să transforme experiențe profund personale și adesea tăcute în narațiuni universale despre reziliență și transformare interioară.
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Say Say Say is a powerful and thought-provoking novel about the role of care-giver and whether simple kindness is enough. In looking after someone profoundly changed after a car accident, Ella confronts her own prejudices and discovers more about herself. An impressive and affecting debut, this book had me reflecting on compassion, gender roles, and what it means to love.
Say Say Say will likely make you cry, but this is a rare novel in which such responses feel clean and ennobling, free from manipulation. It is a book written for the better angels of our nature ... wonderful
A gem of a book. A lyrical, tender, and profoundly insightful dive into the act of caregiving and its highly charged nexus of love, duty, and longing. Lila Savage is an enormous talent; Say Say Say is a mesmerising tour de force.
Wise and understated ... Say Say Say asks difficult questions, of society and of the self. There are no easy answers, but in the novel's quietly radical choice of subject matter and its open-eyed, open-hearted curiosity, it illuminates both the intimate dramas usually hidden behind closed doors and the shifting mysteries of personality and relationship.
Lila Savage, through the experience of the caregiver Ella, vividly illuminates what sustains us when facing suffering and loss: relationships based on trust, honesty, humility and, most of all, the tenacity of love. Say Say Say stirs the reader's mind and heart, and resonates long after the book is closed.
Lila's observations on the ordinary lives of one carer and one couple living with the wake of a devastating brain injury between them are breathtaking; raw, powerful and pivotally, unabashed. Her writing is effortlessly absorbed. Say Say Say asks what exactly it can mean to love, when you care for life's most vulnerable people and the answer is both devastating and beautiful.
I cannot think when I last read a novel which moved me so deeply. Savage is almost supernaturally alert to the little gestures and transactions we all make as we negotiate our place in the world, and our relations to each other. Her approach is both unflinching and extraordinarily tender, so that I came away feeling I had undergone an examination which was somehow both painful and kind. I loved it, and it has remained with me in a way few other books have ever done
Say Say Say is brilliant, compelling, entertaining and a joy to read. I loved that it was about a relationship that wasn't a partner or lover relationship, but nevertheless very intimate. It is an extraordinarily good book.
Luminous . . . A startling, tender debut. [As] Ella, a young caregiver, finds herself gradually immersed in Bryn and Jill's lives, her role as Jill's companion evolves into something more intimate and complex . . . What Ella witnesses between [the couple] challenges her ideas of love, spirituality, and empathy. Quietly forceful, Savage's luminous debut is beautifully written, and will stay with readers long after the final page.
A bright spot in the maelstrom: a book called Say Say Say. It's a smooth and assured portrait of a character's interior world, as well as a meditation on our assumptions about care work, and heterosexual relationships.
Poetic, elegant. . . Say Say Say teaches several valuable lessons: How to be present with grace and dignity. How not to look away. How life goes on... Savage follows the opposite arcs of these two women with such kindness (that's the only word for it), even the most difficult moments of the story feel buffered by grace.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Wallace Stegner Fellow, Savage herself spent almost a decade working as a caregiver, and her insight into this fraught and intimate profession comes through on every page in incisive and beautiful language. The third-person narration is intensely reflective and psychologically revelatory.
Say Say Say, Lila Savage's subversive debut novel... is a riveting story and a meditation on work, loss, intimacy, and desire.
An emotional masterpiece . . . Say Say Say is a heartbreaking book [told in] bracingly honest, unflinching prose . . . it meditates on empathy and finding human connection even in the worst of circumstances.
Inspiring, truly memorable-beautifully drawn; intellectually and emotionally gripping. . . Savage brings insight. One of the many wonders of this novel is her anatomy of how caregivers respond to the issues they face and how they cope. Incidents form a kind of river of episodes and commentary that carries readers forward on a flow of vivid and entrancing prose. . . Say Say Say is perceptive in its commentary, and edifying in its humanity.
A breakthrough in women's fiction. . . What Lila Savage has created is extremely rare in contemporary fiction... Savage takes ordinary human suffering as her subject, and establishes a signpost for new directions in literature about young women... [She] creates new configurations of women's self-love, based on human connection.
I was hungry for this novel before I knew it existed... Say Say Say explores societal stratification-particularly of gender and class-but resists easy commentary. Instead, the novel is full of complexity, and page after page of piercing insights. . . A strange and gorgeous book.
Savage writes from an unusual perspective with clarity, intelligence and remove ... A visceral story, with a philosophical heart.