The Tent de Margaret Atwood

The Tent: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Autor Margaret Atwood

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2007

Pășind în universul fragmentat din The Tent, cititorul va resimți imediat acea stare de luciditate ușor inconfortabilă, dar fascinantă, pe care numai Margaret Atwood o poate genera. Nu este un roman clasic, ci o suită de piese scurte care funcționează ca niște oglinzi retrovizoare: ne arată unde am fost, ce am pierdut și cât de bizară este, în esență, condiția umană. Putem afirma că atmosfera acestui volum este una de o ironie fină, „astringentă”, unde reflecțiile despre senectute și fotografii vechi se împletesc cu scenarii distopice în miniatură. Considerăm că forța acestor pagini rezidă în capacitatea autoarei de a comprima adevăruri incomode în doar câteva paragrafe, totul fiind acompaniat de desenele sale jucăușe care adaugă o notă personală, aproape intimă, lecturii. Cine a citit Wilderness Tips va recunoaște aici atenția meticuloasă pentru texturile vieții cotidiene și explorarea comportamentelor iraționale, însă The Tent se distinge printr-o structură mult mai liberă, aproape experimentală. Față de eseurile din Curious Pursuits, care păstrează o rigoare analitică, piesele de față sunt mai degrabă „pep talks” sardonice sau meditații poetice despre supraviețuire. În contextul operei sale vaste, care include piloni ai beletristicii contemporane precum The Blind Assassin sau The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-in), acest volum apare ca un laborator de idei, un spațiu unde vocea lui Atwood este eliberată de constrângerile narative mari pentru a se concentra pe esența stilului său: un amestec de grație și mușcătură satirică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781400097012
ISBN-10: 1400097010
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 7 LINE DRAWINGS
Dimensiuni: 202 x 129 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seria Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm The Tent cititorilor care apreciază proza scurtă densă și intelectuală. Este o ocazie rară de a vedea latura ludică a lui Margaret Atwood, oferind în același timp perspective lucide asupra ambiției, memoriei și fragilității umane. Câștigați o lectură rapidă, dar care persistă mult timp după închiderea cărții, ideală pentru fanii lui Alice Munro care caută o nuanță mai acidă și speculativă.

Despre autor

Margaret Atwood este una dintre cele mai proeminente voci ale literaturii canadiene contemporane, fiind poetă, romancieră și eseistă de renume mondial. Născută în 1939, cariera sa impresionantă cuprinde peste 18 romane și numeroase volume de poezie și critică literară. Este dublă laureată a prestigiosului Booker Prize (pentru The Blind Assassin și The Testaments) și a primit distincții precum Premiul Franz Kafka și Arthur C. Clarke. Temele sale predilecte — identitatea de gen, puterea limbajului și criza climatică — sunt explorate în The Tent prin prisma unei înțelepciuni mature și a unui umor caustic, reconfirmându-i statutul de observator fin al societății moderne.

Notă biografică

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Extras

Life Stories

Why the hunger for these? If it is a hunger. Maybe it’s more like bossiness. Maybe we just want to be in charge, of the life, no matter who lived it.

It helps if there are photos. No more choices for the people in them — pick this one, dump that one. The livers of the lives in question had their chances, most of which they blew. They should have spotted the photographer in the bushes, they shouldn’t have chewed with their mouths open, they shouldn’t have worn the strapless top, they shouldn’t have yawned, they shouldn’t have laughed: so unattractive, the candid denture. So that’s what she looked like, we say, connecting the snapshot to the year of the torrid affair. Face like a half-eaten pizza, and is that him, gaping down her front? What did he see in her, besides cheap lunch? He was already going bald. What was all the fuss about?

I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart. It’s mostly a question of editing. If you’d wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.

I was born, I would have begun, once. But snip, snip, away go mother and father, white ribbons of paper blown by the wind, with grandparents tossed out for good measure. I spent my childhood. Enough of that as well. Goodbye dirty little dresses, goodbye scuffed shoes that caused me such anguish, goodbye well-thumbed tears and scabby knees, and sadness worn at the edges.

Adolescence can be discarded too, with its salty tanned skin, its fecklessness and bad romance and leakages of seasonal blood. What was it like to breathe so heavily, as if drugged, while rubbing up against strange leather coats in alleyways? I can’t remember.

Once you get started it’s fun. So much free space opens up. Rip, crumple, up in flames, out the window. I was born, I grew up, I studied, I loved, I married, I procreated, I said, I wrote, all gone now. I went, I saw, I did. Farewell crumbling turrets of historic interest, farewell icebergs and war monuments, all those young stone men with eyes upturned, and risky voyages teeming with germs, and dubious hotels, and doorways opening both in and out. Farewell friends and lovers, you’ve slipped from view, erased, defaced: I know you once had hairdos and told jokes, but I can’t recall them. Into the ground with you, my tender fur-brained cats and dogs, and horses and mice as well: I adored you, dozens of you, but what were your names?

I’m getting somewhere now, I’m feeling lighter. I’m coming unstuck from scrapbooks, from albums, from diaries and journals, from space, from time. Only a paragraph left, only a sentence or two, only a whisper.

I was born.
I was.
I.

From the Hardcover edition.

Descriere scurtă

A delightfully pointed m?lange of fictional pieces from one of the world’s most acclaimed and incisive authors, The Tent is a sparkling addition to Margaret Atwood’s always masterful work.Here Atwood pushes form once again, with meditations on warlords, pet heaven, and aging homemakers. She gives a sly pep talk to the ambitious young; writes about the disconcerting experience of looking at old photos of ourselves; and examines the boons and banes of orphanhood. Accompanied by her own playful illustrations, Atwood’s droll humor and keen insight make each piece full of clarity and grace. Prescient and personal, delectable and tart, The Tent reflects one of our wittiest authors at her best.

Recenzii

“Delectably astringent. . . . These succinct, acridly funny pieces. . . deliver a heady punch.” —Los Angeles Times“She has a cool wit, sometimes brutally satirical, always entertaining, and serious to the bone.” —Katherine Dunn, The Oregonian“Atwood’s sentences have more bounce and boogie than those of most twentysomethings.... And although these stories take many forms, from extended metaphor to anecdote, from poem to gag, they are all very much to do with the life and opinions of Margaret Atwood.” —The Times (London)“The Tent exposes the nuts and bolts of the tortuous creative process....The book powerfully exhibits the human consciousness in conversation with itself, struggling to establish a voice amid the cacophony.” —The Observer

Descriere

Atwood is one of the world's most esteemed authors, a writer of wide range--novels, stories, essays, criticism. She now brings readers a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays punctuated with her own wonderful illustrations.