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Transatlantic de Colum McCann

Transatlantic

Autor Colum McCann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mai 2014

Găsim în TransAtlantic o structură narativă ambițioasă, care se desfășoară pe parcursul a peste 150 de ani, împletind destinele unor personalități istorice cu cele ale unor oameni obișnuiți. Romanul este construit ca un triptic istoric, ancorat în trei traversări fundamentale ale oceanului: zborul temerar al aviatorilor Alcock și Brown din 1919, turneul aboliționist al lui Frederick Douglass în Irlanda foametei din 1845 și misiunea diplomatică a senatorului George Mitchell în Belfastul anului 1998. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Colum McCann folosește aceste puncte de inflexiune pentru a explora nu doar evenimentele mari, ci și ecoul lor în viețile intime ale unei succesiuni de femei — de la servitoarea Lily Duggan până la strănepoata sa, Hannah Carson. Stilul este unul contemplativ și profund senzorial, unde ritmul prozei pare să imite fluxul și refluxul oceanului ce separă cele două lumi. Reținem finețea cu care autorul umanizează miturile istorice, transformând negocierile politice sau recordurile de aviație în experiențe profund subiective. Cartea amintește de Let the Great World Spin prin modul în care un eveniment central (sau o serie de evenimente) devine liantul unor vieți disparate, dar se diferențiază prin dimensiunea sa transgenerațională și prin accentul pus pe legătura viscerală dintre pământul irlandez și cel american. Față de abordarea documentară din Atlantic Crossing in the Wake of Frederick Douglass, McCann alege calea ficțiunii interpretative, unde adevărul istoric este îmbogățit de o imaginație empatică. În contextul operei sale, TransAtlantic continuă explorarea subsolurilor emoționale din This Side of Brightness, rafinând capacitatea autorului de a cartografia geografia suferinței și a speranței.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812981926
ISBN-10: 0812981928
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm TransAtlantic celor care caută o proză literară densă, care refuză liniaritatea în favoarea unei profunzimi emoționale rare. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă inedită asupra modului în care istoria nu este doar o succesiune de date, ci un șir de momente de grație anonime. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii lui Michael Ondaatje sau pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă legăturile invizibile dintre trecutul dureros al Irlandei și promisiunea visului american.

Despre autor

Colum McCann este unul dintre cei mai apreciați scriitori contemporani, fiind laureat al National Book Award pentru romanul Let the Great World Spin. Originar din Dublin și stabilit în New York, McCann și-a dedicat o mare parte din operă explorării condiției umane la intersecția dintre culturi și epoci. Lucrările sale, traduse în peste patruzeci de limbi, includ romane de succes precum Dancer și Apeirogon, ambele demonstrând măiestria sa în a transforma faptele reale în narațiuni lirice. Prin TransAtlantic, autorul își consolidează reputația de cronicar al intimității în contextul marilor mișcări istorice.

Notă biografică

Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels "Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, "and" Songdogs, " as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He has received many honors, including the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government, and the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of "Esquire"'s "Best & Brightest," and his short film "Everything in This Country Must" was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to "The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, "and" The Paris Review, " he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing Program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children.

Recenzii

"This novel is beautifully hypnotic in its movements, from the grand (between two continents, across three centuries) to the most subtle. Silkily threading together public events and private feelings, "TransAtlantic" says no to death with every line. Those who can't see the point of historical novels will find their answer here: in all intelligent fiction, the past has not passed."--Emma Donoghue, author of "Room"
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"A dazzlingly talented author's latest high-wire act . . . National Book Award winner Colum McCann weaves an intricate tapestry that illuminates the anguish of Irish history and the deeper agonies of war. "TransAtlantic" reads as a series of interconnected novellas, shifting between decades, among an unlikely cast of richly drawn characters. . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, "TransAtlantic" is Colum McCann's most penetrating novel yet."--"O: The Oprah Magazine"
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"What distinguishes "TransAtlantic" from McCann's earlier work isn't the stunning language or the psychological acuity or the humor and imagination on display--all of that has been there before. It's the sheer ambition, the audacity to imagine within the same novel the experience of Frederick Douglass . . . then the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight . . . then to leap into the near-present and embody the former senator George Mitchell . . . and finally to unite these stories, to give them even larger purpose than the historical significance they already possess, by knitting through and around them the stories of four generations of women."--Joel Lovell, "The New York Times Magazine"
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"Ingenious . . . The intricate connections he has crafted between the stories of his women and our men will, by the end, have you trying to figure out, in pencil, what he seems to have written in air, in water, and--given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history--in blood."--Tom Junod, "Esquire"
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""Let The
"A dazzlingly talented author's latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, "TransAtlantic" is Colum McCann's most penetrating novel yet."--"O: The Oprah Magazine"
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"What distinguishes "TransAtlantic" from [Colum] McCann's earlier work isn't the stunning language or the psychological acuity or the humor and imagination on display--all of that has been there before. It's the sheer ambition, the audacity to imagine within the same novel the experience of Frederick Douglass in 1845 . . . then the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in 1919 . . . then to leap into the near-present and embody the former senator George Mitchell, . . . knitting through and around them the stories of four generations of women."--"The New York Times Magazine"
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"One of the greatest pleasures of "TransAtlantic" is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. . . . Here is the uncanny thing McCann finds again and again about the miraculous: that it is inseparable from the everyday."--"The Boston Globe"

"Ingenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, and--given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history--in blood."--"Esquire"

"Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy."--"The Seattle Times"

"Entrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music--elation and sorrow."--"The Denver Post"


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Descriere

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "KIRKUS REVIEWS"
In the National Book Award-winning "Let the Great World Spin, "Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that "The New York Times Book Review "called"""an emotional tour de force." Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined.
Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators--Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown--set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified bomber to heal the wounds of the Great War.
Dublin, 1845 and '46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause--despite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave.
New York, 1998. Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, where it has fallen to him, the son of an Irish-American father and a Lebanese mother, to shepherd Northern Ireland's notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion.
These three iconic crossings are connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in the swells of history. Beginning with Irish housemaid Lily Duggan, who crosses paths with Frederick Douglass, the novel follows her daughter and granddaughter, Emily and Lottie, and culminates in the present-day story of Hannah Carson, in whom all the hopes and failures of previous generations live on. From the loughs of Ireland to the flatlands of Missouri and the windswept coast of Newfoundland, their journeys mirror the progress and shape of history. They each learn that even the most unassuming moments of grace have a way of rippling through time, space, and memory.
The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, "TransAtlantic" is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.
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"A dazzlingly talented author's latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, "TransAtlantic" is Colum McCann's most penetrating novel yet."--"O: The Oprah Magazine"
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"One of the greatest pleasures of "TransAtlantic" is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. . . . Here is the uncanny thing McCann finds again and again about the miraculous: that it is inseparable from the everyday."--"The Boston Globe"
"Ingenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, and--given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history--in blood."--"Esquire"
"Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy."--"The Seattle Times"
"Entrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music--elation and sorrow."--"The Denver Post"