Stand By Me
Autor Wendell Berryen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iul 2020
În „Stand By Me”, tensiunea centrală nu se naște din conflicte exterioare zgomotoase, ci din rezistența tăcută a valorilor tradiționale în fața eroziunii timpului și a modernității dezrădăcinate. Descoperim aici o nouă incursiune în Port William, acel spațiu mitic creat de Wendell Berry unde comunitatea este definită prin apartenență și datorie reciprocă. Putem afirma că volumul funcționează ca o chintesență a preocupărilor autorului, integrându-se organic alături de lucrări precum What I Stand On sau The World-Ending Fire. Dacă în eseurile sale Berry argumentează politic și ecologic necesitatea reîntoarcerii la pământ, în această proză el oferă carnea și sângele acestor idei prin personaje care trăiesc consecințele acestor alegeri. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la The Long River Home, de Larry Smith, deși atenția microscopică a lui Berry pentru ritmul naturii și demnitatea muncii agricole marchează o voce proprie, mult mai așezată. Merită menționat că autorul reușește să echilibreze suferința pierderii cu un umor discret, transformând viața cotidiană a fermierilor din Kentucky într-o meditație universală despre ceea ce ne definește ca oameni. Este o lectură care nu grăbește cititorul, ci îl invită să locuiască într-un spațiu unde timpul se măsoară în recolte și în fidelitatea față de cei dragi.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0141990244
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o proză contemplativă, departe de ritmul alert al ficțiunii comerciale. Este o invitație de a descoperi universul lui Port William, un loc unde valorile umane sunt ancorate în pământ și comunitate. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care tradiția și apartenența pot oferi sens într-o lume aflată în continuă schimbare.
Despre autor
Wendell Berry (născut în 1934) este un scriitor american polivalent — romancier, poet, eseist și activist de mediu. Membru al Fellowship of Southern Writers și laureat al National Humanities Medal, Berry este considerat una dintre cele mai importante voci critice ale culturii americane contemporane. Viața sa de fermier în Kentucky informează întreaga sa operă, transformându-l într-un apărător neobosit al agriculturii sustenabile și al comunităților locale. În 2015, a devenit primul scriitor în viață inclus în Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, confirmându-și statutul de reper literar moral.
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Recenzii
What a wise and inspiring collection this is, although 'collection' hardly does it justice, it sounds far too piecemeal and ephemeral for a book with such a meditative and singular focus. It's so full of life, expanding the horizon as you read, revealing a wider and a deeper way of looking at the quotidian. Like Denis Johnson, Marilynne Robinson, or Seamus Heaney, Wendell Berry shows us that sometimes looking deeply into one world can become a profound way of looking at the whole world.
Praise for Wendell Berry: One of America's finest prose writers
Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world
Intricate and beautiful, sad but strong
A small treasure . . . part of a long line that descends from Chaucer to Katherine Mansfield to William Trevor.
Berry is the master of earthy country living seen through the eyes of laconic farmers.... He makes his stories shine with meaning and warmth
What unites [these stories] is a deep humanity, compassion and a sense of recognition that our modern lives unfolded at some point on Earth from stories such as these
No writer has written of a place better or more completely than Wendell Berry has written of Port William
Berry is an American treasure; this collection belongs in all literary fiction collections
Berry's writing is graceful, poignant and compassionate, and his feel for the inner lives of his quirky rural characters makes for many memorable portraits. A valuable work of literature and historical set piece, this collection vividly captures the fabric of a kind of all-American life
Wendell Berry writes with a good husbandman's care and economy . . . His stories are filled with gentle humor
This is the most complete-and the most powerful-vision of any American writer in my time. The stories of the Port William Membership are a delight, a goad, and a testament less to what was than to what could be. They will leave no reader unmoved and unchanged
Wendell Berry gives us an intimate portrayal of the mind and heart of rural America. His graceful prose is truthful and eloquent. His tone is reliable and steady, like a good rain, sober and serious-all this and at times he is so funny you have to stop and roll on the floor
[Berry's] essays, poetry and fiction have fertilized a crop of great solace in my life, and helped to breed a healthy flock of good manners, to boot. As I travel this unlikely road of opportunity, as a woodworker and writer, sure, but most often as a jackass, I have his writings upon which to fix my mind and my heart, to keep my life's errant wagon between the ditches, as it were. Mr. Berry's sentences and stories deliver a great payload of edifying entertainment, which I hungrily consume, but it is the bass note of morality thumping through his musical phrases that guides me with the most constant of hands upon my plow.
The local nature of their canny, comic tonalities [...] might lead browsers to take these Berry stories as merely quaint. That would be a mistake. In fact, like Isaac Bashevis Singer, Berry has been expanding by contraction, husbanding by close focus - in Berry's case, on the familiar demesne of Port William, Ky... A masterpiece...Berry moves way beyond nostalgia toward an immersion in other lives that expresses itself as a sense of intimate apartness; a willingness to follow his characters, but not necessarily to change them. Poetry nestled inside prose: startlingly and classically moving
The stories express a biblical reverence for life and community, yet they're funny, too, and so beautiful
This bewitching book, a collage amounting almost to a novel, formed of 18 short stories linked to each other by people and place, nourishes deep-seated memories of the old country ways...Berry writes with such wisdom and understanding of the Kentucky countryside and its people that it scarcely seems like fiction. These are stories about the importance of memory and history in the life of a community...they celebrate the visceral links between man and Nature...acutely observed and beautifully wrought...gently humorous, full of eccentricity, sometimes wistful and occasionally sad, but unfailingly enjoyable, rewarding, even joyful.
Berry is a thought-provoking writer who uses humour and sorrow to evoke memorable characters, atmosphere and setting
Descriere scurtă
On a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred years later, her great-grandson Andy climbs a hill at the edge of town, and is flooded with memories of all he has lived, seen and heard of the past century - of farmers wooing schoolteachers and soldiers trudging home from war; of the first motor car, the Great Depression and Vietnam; of neighbourly feuds and family secrets; of grief and betrayal - and of great friendship that endures for a lifetime.
These are Wendell Berry's tales of Port William, a little farming community nestled deep in the Kentucky River valley. They unravel the story of a town over the course of four generations, lovingly chronicling the intertwined lives of the families who call it home.
Affectionate, elegiac and wry, these uplifting rural fables invite us to witness the beauty and quiet heroism at the heart of each ordinary, interconnected life.