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The Burning Girl: '[Messud] is an absolute master storyteller' Los Angeles Times
Autor Claire Messuden Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2018
Ritmul romanului The Burning Girl este unul hipnotic și stratificat, o curgere care pare să imite însăși trecerea insidioasă de la inocența copilăriei la complexitatea tulbure a adolescenței. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Claire Messud refuză clișeele nostalgice, alegând în schimb să exploreze mecanismele psihologice fine care unesc și, în cele din urmă, despart două prietene de nedespărțit. Julia și Cassie, crescute în liniștea aparentă a orășelului Royston, devin oglinzi deformate una pentru cealaltă pe măsură ce discrepanțele dintre mediile lor familiale încep să cântărească mai greu decât amintirile comune de la grădiniță. Apreciem forța narativă a lui Meg Rosoff combinată cu sensibilitatea psihologică a lui Jo Ann Beard — dar cu un glas propriu, mult mai sumbru și mai orientat către consecințele reale ale poveștilor pe care ni le fabricăm singuri. The Burning Girl se distinge prin această infuzie de folclor într-un cadru de realism contemporan, transformând o simplă ruptură între adolescente într-o tragedie cu ecouri mitice. În contextul operei sale, dacă în The Emperor's Children autoarea analiza ambiția și vanitatea elitei din Manhattan, iar în recentul This Strange Eventful History urmărește o odisee familială pe parcursul a șapte decenii, aici Claire Messud își restrânge obiectivul asupra intimității radicale. Rezultatul este un portret comprimat, dar extrem de intens, al modului în care identitatea feminină se forjează prin atașament și pierdere. Putem afirma că este o lectură care nu oferă consolare, ci o înțelegere profundă a fragilității legăturilor umane.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0708898610
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Fleet
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o analiză psihologică fină a prieteniei feminine, dincolo de suprafața idealizată. Cititorul va descoperi o poveste despre maturizare care îmbină suspansul emoțional cu o reflecție asupra modului în care mediul social ne dictează parcursul. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii romanelor de tip Bildungsroman care nu se tem de o concluzie melancolică, dar onestă, despre sfârșitul copilăriei.
Despre autor
Claire Messud (născută în 1966) este o romancieră americană de renume și profesoară de scriere creativă, apreciată pentru precizia stilistică și profunzimea observației sociale. A devenit cunoscută la nivel internațional cu romanul The Emperor's Children, fiind distinsă de-a lungul carierei cu burse Guggenheim și Radcliffe, precum și cu premiul Strauss Living din partea Academiei Americane de Arte și Litere. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Hunters și This Strange Eventful History (longlisted Booker 2024), explorează adesea teme legate de identitate, exil și structurile complexe ale vieții de familie.
Descriere
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2024 BOOKER LONGLISTED THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY
A bracing and hypnotic portrait of the complexities of female friendship
'Messud is a storyteller: the ability to compel and hold the reader's interest may not be the crown and summit of novel writing, but it's the beginning and end of it' Ursula K. Le Guin
Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge: while Julia comes from a stable, happy, middle-class family, Cassie never knew her father, who died when she was an infant, and has an increasingly tempestuous relationship with her single mother, Bev.
When Bev becomes involved with the mysterious Anders Shute, Cassie feels cruelly abandoned. Disturbed, angry and desperate for answers, she sets out on a journey that will put her own life in danger, and shatter her oldest friendship.
Compact, compelling, and ferociously sad, The Burning Girl is at once a story about childhood, friendship and community, and a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about childhood and friendship. Claire Messud brilliantly mixes folklore and Bildungsroman, exploring the ways in which our made-up stories, and their consequences, become real.
Recenzii
Julia Robinson and Cassie Burnes have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. While Julia comes from a stable, happy, middle-class family, Cassie never knew her father, who died when she was an infant, and has an increasingly tempestuous relationship with her mother, Bev.
As the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge. When Bev becomes involved with the mysterious Anders Shute, Cassie feels cruelly abandoned. Disturbed, angry and desperate for answers, she sets out on a journey that will put her own life in danger, and shatter her oldest friendship.
'Messud is magnificent on female fury . . . The Burning Girl is an astute, subtle novel that conceals an eloquent and clear-eyed rage simmering beneath its surface' Francesca Segal, Financial Times
'Gripping' Vogue
Messud is magnificent on female fury . . . The Burning Girl is an astute, subtle novel that conceals an eloquent and clear-eyed rage simmering beneath its surface
Messud captures young adolescence vividly and unjudgementally . . . this is a hard book to stop reading
A novel of deep emotional intelligence . . . There are insightful, psychologically astute meditations throughout the narrative, written in the precise, elegant prose we've come to expect from this master storyteller . . . The Burning Girl is reminiscent of My Brilliant Friend
Emotionally intense and quietly haunting
The Woman Upstairs was a clever, audacious portrayal of an untrustworthy protagonist. Informed by the same sophisticated intelligence and elegant prose, but gaining new poignant depths, this novel is haunting and emotionally gripping
A novel that packs a massive punch as it delves into the devastating results of a fractured friendship
Messud's gift is to understand the nuances of female relationships and believe that they are worthy of sustained and unhurried attention
Two best friends from childhood are forced on to different paths in The Burning Girl. But Claire Messud's moving writing makes it so much deeper, and gets us to think about growing up, friendship and how girls are treated by society
This is a terrific novel, beautifully written and crafted; I don't believe Messud could write a duff sentence if she tried
This fierce, melancholy book lays bare the girls' shared desire to escape their small-town American home for something bigger and brighter, and explores why it went badly awry
Lingeringly evocative, this is a heartfelt coming-of-age tale whose insights - into girlhood especially - are braided with mystery and menace
Claire Messud's elegant, understated new novel . . . Messud brilliantly renders the uncertainty of Julia's sense of identity . . . beautifully evocative
Gripping
This is a taut, sure-footed and sobering exploration of girlhood
An exceptionally well-written and emotionally powerful account of one such loss, in which the intense friendship between two prepubescent girls fails as they move from the clarity of childhood towards the uncertainties and dangers of adolescence . . . This novel serves as an examination of the power of the storyteller as much as a reworking of the classic themes of innocence betrayed and love lost . . . Exhilarating, because of Messud's sheer intelligence, the richness and beauty of her prose and her understanding of the art and value of storytelling. It is a haunting, stunning novel and deserves every prize
Messud's cut-glass prose reels you into a quietly shocking narrative that chillingly portrays female coming-of-age as a terrifying loss of freedom
Messud painstakingly follows the ebbs and flows of the minutiae of what it means to be and to have a friend when you are struggling to develop an adult identity
This fierce, melancholy book lays bare the girls' shared desire to escape their small town American home for something bigger and brighter, and reveals how things go terribly awry
Lingeringly evocative, this is an indelible, heartfelt coming-of-age tale whose ample insights are braided with menace
It is a delight to be continuously wrong-footed and bowled over . . . Messud skilfully and compellingly traces the intricacies of friendship and the tragedies that erupt when lives are unmade