Whereabouts
Autor Jhumpa Lahirien Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2022
Ce înseamnă să aparții unui loc fără a te lăsa definit de el? Subliniem faptul că „Whereabouts” nu este doar un nou roman semnat de Jhumpa Lahiri, ci o experiență de dezvățare și reconstrucție lingvistică. Premisa este una a introspecției pure: o femeie aflată la jumătatea vieții își parcurge orașul adoptiv, transformând străzile, muzeele și cafenelele în parteneri de dialog silențios. Într-o succesiune de miniaturi literare rafinate, suntem martorii unei existențe care pendulează între dorința de conexiune și refuzul legăturilor permanente.
Notăm cu interes cum această lucrare amintește de In Other Words prin fascinația pentru cultura și limba italiană, dar se diferențiază printr-o structură narativă fragmentată, aproape poetică, ce renunță la rigoarea eseistică în favoarea unei ficțiuni contemplative. Dacă în lucrări celebre precum The Namesake sau The Lowland, Lahiri explora identitatea prin prisma diasporei bengaleze, în „Whereabouts” ea părăsește teritoriul cunoscut pentru a investiga singurătatea universală. Ritmul este unul lent, meditativ, invitând la o lectură așezată, unde spațiul fizic — de la bazinul de înot la gara unde își vizitează mama — devine o hartă a stării interioare a protagonistei.
Suntem de părere că această tranziție către limba italiană i-a permis autoarei să atingă o simplitate tăioasă, eliminând orice ornament inutil. Este un portret bântuitor al unei femei care, deși pare pierdută în propriul oraș, găsește o formă neașteptată de libertate în anonimat și observație.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1526629976
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază proza scurtă, densă și explorările psihologice subtile. „Whereabouts” oferă o experiență de lectură calmă, ideală pentru momente de reflexie. Veți câștiga o perspectivă proaspătă asupra modului în care locurile pe care le frecventăm ne modelează identitatea, totul sub semnătura unei autoare distinse cu Premiul Pulitzer care îndrăznește să își reinventeze vocea literară într-o limbă străină.
Despre autor
Nilanjana Sudeshna „Jhumpa” Lahiri este o scriitoare americană de origine indiană, celebră pentru explorarea experienței imigranților. Debutul său, „Interpreter of Maladies”, a fost recompensat cu Premiul Pulitzer, iar romanul The Namesake a fost adaptat într-un film de succes. După mutarea la Roma în 2011, Lahiri a început o tranziție remarcabilă către limba italiană, publicând eseuri și ficțiune direct în această limbă. În prezent, este profesoară de scriere creativă la Universitatea Princeton și continuă să fie o voce centrală în literatura contemporană, fiind distinsă și cu National Humanities Medal.
Descriere
'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb' SUNDAY TIMES'A rare kind of literary celebrity' VOGUE'A hypnotic disappearing act' OBSERVERThe new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian city The woman moves through the city, her city, on her own. She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in a waiting room; pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded square. Sometimes her steps take her to her grieving mother, sealed off in her own solitude. Sometimes they take her to the station, where the trains can spirit her away for a short while. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change forever. A rare work of fiction, Whereabouts - first written in Italian and then translated by the author herself - brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. A dazzling evocation of a city, its captures a woman standing on one of life's thresholds, reflecting on what has been lost and facing, with equal hope and rage, what may lie ahead.'An unusual literary and linguistic feat' NEW YORK TIMES
Recenzii
Elegantly done, a portrait veiled in quiet melancholy, but which still celebrates the unexpected joys of the quotidian, and how much more sharply you can appreciate them when alone
Insightful, elegant prose exposing the faults that make us human
Addictive . Sometimes we're in the mood for intimate novels exploring the intricacies of human emotion . Quietly mesmerising
So timely . Takes daring and to my mind beautiful risks with structure and plot
Its sentences are honed to minimalist beauty ... The most exciting moments of the novel are when it becomes a novel of thinking, when it dives down into its sharp, provocative fragments
A beautifully poised exploration of an interior life
Each chapter an espresso shot of regret and loneliness . This is a book about belonging and not belonging, place and displacement
Compelling . Whereabouts feels like a movie . Stylish and therapeutic
A quietly bracing work of fiction ... This is arguably Lahiri's most beautifully written novel
Whereabouts is rendered in short, journal-like fragments so strongly and rightly voiced that other books sound wrong when you turn to them
An utterly compelling and contemplative story, infused with a fascinating character study, whose presence I still can't seem to shake off.
Lahiri writes with subtlety and delicacy
Whereabouts signals a new mode for Lahiri, and a daring transformation ... It feels true and wise to the core
Slim and bewitching . A modern day flaneuse . The author has a talent for capturing the everyday
Evokes fleeting but resonant encounters with Chekhovian efficiency, making ordinary memories seem profound .
Ms Lahiri has taken risks for her craft, and they have paid off, beautifully
Lahiri's prose is magnetic
A hypnotic disappearing act ... The book's peculiar magnetism lies in its clash of candour and coyness
An unusual literary and linguistic feat . If, in English, Lahiri is an eye, in Italian, she's an ear
Glorious . Written with grace and sensitivity . Magnificent
Jhumpa Lahiri's writing is wonderful in the literal sense: on every page there is something to take your breath away
Subtle and stirring ... A fascinating departure in cadence and form for Lahiri ... The sort of deft hand so few can properly wield: it evokes the sort of slow thrum of despair and loneliness so few can manage well.Lahiri is no ordinary writer ... Poetic as she is and always has been, seemingly innocuous turns of phrase cut to the core, while descriptions of light and darkness take you aback and make you swoon. Elegant, beautiful ... Whereabouts will stay with you longer than you anticipate
A meditative and aching snapshot of a life in suspension ... Lahiri's poetic flourishes and spare, conversational prose are on full display. This beautifully written portrait of a life in passage captures the hopes, frustrations, and longings of solitude and remembrance
Painterly . exquisitely detailed. [Lahiri's] language seems to have been sieved through a fine mesh, each word a gleaming gemstone . An incisive and captivating evocation of the nature and nexus of place and self
Subtle and stirring ... A fascinating departure in cadence and form for Lahiri. Told in fragments, Whereabouts [is written with] the sort of deft hand so few can properly wield: it evokes the sort of slow thrum of despair and loneliness so few can manage well. But Lahiri is no ordinary writer. There's a calming sense of comfort one finds in the solitude experienced by our main character, largely due to the exactness of Lahiri's writing. Poetic as she is and always has been, seemingly innocuous turns of phrase cut to the core, while descriptions of light and darkness take you aback and make you swoon. Elegant, beautiful ... Whereabouts will stay with you longer than you anticipate
Some books leave you with a feeling for which there are no words, or at least no words in English that you know of. Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts is one of those books. The feeling closest to what is evoked by this beautifully crafted novel is a stroll during the blue hour on the first warm evening of spring. A jewel of a book
A series of dreamy vignettes, an unconnected shuffle of moments or mornings of encounters that create a window into the life of an educated woman and teacher who is happily single... Beautifully observed and ruminative ...
Not one word is wasted. A total absence of exposition ensures each microfiction is surgically edited to its barest, most beautiful bones. And yet there is a warmth here that encourages great affection for the anonymous narrator. Written with
intelligence, elegance, empathy and hypnotic power, Whereabouts is destined to become a book of the year.
The storyteller in whose hands we can always expect to find the sacredness of the ordinary and the grace of the mundane constantly unveiled
A novel with radical ambitions . [An] evocation of a life at once painfully precarious and yet full of small, intensely physical pleasures
This is one to read and re-read
Beautiful Italian miniatures, best dipped into when the need for a few pages of calm reflection is required
Beautiful Italian miniatures, best dipped into when the need for a few pages of calm reflection is required