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Two Besides de Alan Bennett

Two Besides

Autor Alan Bennett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 oct 2021

Descoperim în acest volum o experiență literară de o intimitate rară, unde vocea umană devine singurul instrument de explorare a realității. Remarcăm imediat calitatea estetică a textului care, deși conceput pentru televiziune, își păstrează forța vizuală și emoțională pe hârtie. Two Besides ne introduce în universul a două femei obișnuite, ale căror vieți sunt fracturate de evenimente neprevăzute, oferindu-ne o perspectivă senzorială asupra fragilității umane. Prima piesă, „An Ordinary Woman”, urmărește prăbușirea unei mame sub greutatea unei obsesii interzise, în timp ce „The Shrine” ne așază lângă Lorna, o figură solitară în vestă reflectorizantă, care descoperă secretele partenerului său decedat la marginea unui drum. Notăm cu interes modul în care Alan Bennett reușește să transforme doliul și izolarea în portrete devastatoare, dar pline de demnitate. Complementar volumului The Complete Talking Heads din aceeași perioadă artistică a autorului, dar cu o perspectivă mult mai marcată de introspecția forțată a perioadei de carantină, acest titlu adaugă noi nuanțe canonului dramatic britanic. Structura textului, îmbogățită de prefața lui Nicholas Hytner și introducerile autorului, oferă cititorului contextul necesar pentru a vizualiza interpretările actoricești remarcabile. Este o lectură care se simte ca o confidență șoptită, unde ritmul este dictat de pauzele dintre cuvinte și de greutatea lucrurilor nespuse.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780571365869
ISBN-10: 0571365868
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 107 x 171 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.08 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: FABER & FABER

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază profunzimea psihologică și rafinamentul teatrului britanic contemporan. Veți descoperi două studii de personaj magistrale, scrise cu empatie și un umor discret, specific lui Alan Bennett. Este o oportunitate rară de a vedea cum izolarea poate genera artă pură, oferind o înțelegere mai clară a modului în care oamenii obișnuiți navighează prin pierdere și supraviețuire.

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Two brand-new monologues in the Talking Heads series, as seen on BBC1 and iPlayer 'Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I've added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise. They just about end up on top and go on, but without quite knowing how. Still, they're in good company, and at least they've made it into print.' Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the inevitable consequences when she makes life intolerable for herself and her family by falling for her own flesh and blood; while The Shrine tells the story behind a makeshift roadside shrine, introducing us to Lorna, bearing witness in her high-vis jacket, the bereft partner of a dedicated biker with a surprising private life. The two new Talking Heads were recorded for the BBC during the exceptional circumstances of coronavirus lockdown in the spring of 2020, directed by Nicholas Hytner and performed by Sarah Lancashire and Monica Dolan. The book contains a substantial preface by Nicholas Hytner and an introduction to each, by Alan Bennett.

Notă biografică

ALAN BENNETT has been a leading dramatist since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His works for stage and screen include Talking Heads, Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III, an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, People, Hymn, Cocktail Sticks and Allelujah! His collections of prose are Writing Home, Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006) and Keeping On, Keeping On. Six Poets contains Bennett's selection of English verse, accompanied by his commentary. His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories., Alan Bennett has been one of our leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, revived for the BBC during the exceptional circumstances of the 2020 lockdown, including two new monologues, published as Two Besides.

His many works for the stage include Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van (together with the screenplay), A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George), and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. At the National Theatre, London, The History Boys (also a screenplay) won numerous awards including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, an Olivier for Best New Play and the South Bank Award. On Broadway, The History Boys won five New York Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Award, a New York Drama League Award and six Tonys. Also at the National, The Habit of Art, People, Hymn and Cocktail Sticks. Allelujah! premiered at the Bridge Theatre, London.

His collections of prose are Writing Home, Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006) and Keeping On Keeping On. Bennett's selection of English verse, accompanied by his commentary is published in Six Poets, Hardy to Larkin. His lockdown diaries, published as House Arrest, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Fiction includes The Uncommon Reader, Smut: Two Unseemly Stories and another Sunday Times bestseller, Killing Time., ALAN BENNETT has been a leading dramatist since Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His works for stage and screen include Talking Heads, Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, The Madness of George III, an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, The History Boys, The Habit of Art, People, Hymn, Cocktail Sticks, Allelujah! and The Choral. His collections of prose are Writing Home, Untold Stories (PEN/Ackerley Prize, 2006), Keeping On Keeping On and Enough Said. Six Poets contains Bennett's selection of English verse, accompanied by his commentary. His fiction includes The Uncommon Reader and Smut: Two Unseemly Stories. Most recently, his pandemic diary, House Arrest, his short story Killing Time and Enough Said were all Sunday Times bestsellers.