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The New Me de Halle Butler

The New Me

Autor Halle Butler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2019

Remarcăm, încă de la primele pagini, o imagine de o brutalitate simbolică: protagonista, aflată sub duș, își imaginează cum apucă ziua de gât și o izbește violent de perete. Această fantezie de control este singura formă de rebeliune pentru Millie, o tânără de treizeci de ani captivă într-un ciclu de munci temporare și seri solitare în fața televizorului. The New Me nu este doar o cronică a plictisului corporatist, ci o radiografie tăioasă a presiunii de a deveni o versiune „mai bună” a propriei persoane prin yoga, curățenie sau optimism forțat. Putem afirma că forța romanului rezidă în onestitatea cu care tratează eșecul de a se integra în structurile succesului modern. Cititorul care a apreciat critica acidă a mediului de lucru și relațiile tensionate dintre colegi din Jillian va găsi aici o explorare similară a resentimentului social — dar într-un context mult mai claustrofobic, unde inamicul nu este neapărat colegul de birou, ci propriul sentiment de inutilitate. Dacă în Banal Nightmare Halle Butler satiriza ororile feminității moderne cu un umor negru specific, în această lucrare ea rafinează vocea unei generații obosite și dezorientate. Stilul este unul de un realism crud, aproape clinic, în care ritmul lent al rutinei zilnice este punctat de izbucniri de furie interioară. Este o lectură despre momentul paralizant în care realizezi că visul unei vieți stabile este, în esență, unul gol.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780143133605
ISBN-10: 0143133608
Pagini: 191
Dimensiuni: 126 x 195 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Penguin LLC US
Colecția Penguin Books

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Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o perspectivă onestă și lipsită de sentimentalisme asupra vieții de adult în mediul urban contemporan. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a anxietăților generaționale legate de muncă și identitate. Este un roman esențial pentru fanii prozei lui Ottessa Moshfegh, oferind o satiră neagră despre capcana auto-perfecționării și realitatea adesea absurdă a supraviețuirii economice moderne.

Despre autor

Halle Butler este o voce distinctă în literatura americană contemporană, recunoscută oficial de National Book Foundation prin premiul „5 Under 35” și inclusă de revista Granta în lista celor mai buni tineri romancieri americani. Stilul său se remarcă printr-o satiră socială necruțătoare și o capacitate extraordinară de a surprinde disconfortul existențial al vieții moderne. Prin lucrările sale, Butler explorează teme precum alienarea la locul de muncă, complexitatea relațiilor feminine și presiunea succesului în secolul XXI.

Descriere scurtă

"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

"Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me." -Entertainment Weekly

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class, still might, still might. I step into the shower and almost faint, an image of taking the day by the throat and bashing its head against the wall floating in my mind.

Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. She spends her days working a thankless temp job and her nights alone in her apartment, fixating on all the ways she might change her situation--her job, her attitude, her appearance, her life. Then she watches TV until she falls asleep, and the cycle begins again.

When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it seems to bring the better life she's envisioning within reach. But with it also comes the paralyzing realization, lurking just beneath the surface, of how hollow that vision has become.

"Wretchedly riveting" (The New Yorker) and "masterfully cringe-inducing" (Chicago Tribune), The New Me is the must-read new novel by National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and Granta Best Young American novelist Halle Butler.

Named a Best Book of the Decade by Vox, and a Best Book of 2019 by Vanity Fair, Vulture, Chicago Tribune and NPR

Notă biografică

Halle Butleris the author ofJillian. She has been named a National Book Award Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and aGrantaBest Young American Novelist.

Descriere

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In a windowless office, women stand in a circle. One explains something from her real, nonwork life - about the frustration and indignity of returning an item she bought online. One wears a topknot.

Another checks her pedometer. Watching them all is Millie. Thirty-years-old and an eternal temp, she says almost nothing, almost all of the time.

But then the possibility of a permanent job arises. Will it bring the new life Millie is envisioning - one involving a gym membership, a book club, and a lot less beer and TV - finally within reach? Or will it reveal just how hollow that vision has become?
 

Recenzii

Halle Butler is a first-rate satirist of the horror show being sold to us as Modern Femininity. She is Thomas Bernhard in a bad mood, wearing ill-fitting tights, scrutinizing old take-out leftovers. THE NEW ME shows us the futility of betterment in an increasingly paranoid era of self-improvement, one in which the female body is grated into little bloody empowered bits of itself. A dark comedy of female rage. Fucking hilarious.
THE NEW ME renders contemporary American life in such vivid, stinging color, that certain sentences are liable to give the reader a paper cut. But you'll want to keep on reading anyway. Halle Butler is terrific, and I loved this book.
A bouncy, profane, highly addictive novel about work, female friendship, and other alienations. Halle Butler's insane talent shimmers on every page of this deadpan misanthrope's ode. A must-read!
Halle Butler has a way of looking at our 21st-century neoliberalist condition that simultaneously exposes its brutality and renders that same brutality absurd, hilarious, fizzy with humor. She's an incisive, curmudgeonly bard of the uniquely precarious times we live in, and it is crucial that you read her immediately.
A bleak and brutal book that exposes a nearly unbearable futility to life in the workforce, not to mention life outside of it. Butler's vision is funny and raw and dark-a cautionary tale, hilarious and intimate, against growing up and making do.
Painfully and hilariously socially astute. Sometimes I wasn't sure if I was crying with laughter or just sympathetic misanthropy. Millie is caustically funny, obstructively depressive and self-consciously complicit in an endless mise en abyme of utter vapidity and I am absolutely in love with her.
A novel so darkly funny and acutely observed that it feels like a documentary; a state-of-the-nation book about the Millenial condition
Funny, shocking, clever, and hugely entertaining
Vicious ... hilariously spot on
A definitive work of millennial literature
Brilliant. For fans of Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The best thing I've read in years. A dark delight. Viciously funny. Brilliantly subversive.
Made me laugh and cry enough times to feel completely reborn
Anyone who has ever felt like their life is going nowhere - and to make it worse, going nowhere in an achingly slow manner - will recognize themselves
Halle Butler's slim, acrid novel is a pleasingly cruel glimpse at the world of work and temping.
A deliciously dark satire of office life
A cringey book about someone's shitty life that makes you feel infinitely better about your own
wake up, look in the mirror, swear it will all be different today. sound familiar? here's that feeling in novel form: meet millie, a 30-year-old flailing around in dissatisfaction. a job offer seems to promise reinvention-but, sadly, easy transformations are for caterpillars, not lonely, anxiety-ridden women
The New Me is a pitch-black and wickedly funny take on millennial work culture and the lie of self-improvement. I loved it.
It's terrific. So funny.
Monstrously depressing but so comic and well observed that I didn't really mind ... It is great