Wyrd Sisters: HarperCollins Publishers
Autor Terry Pratchetten Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 oct 2024
Remarcăm în Wyrd Sisters o premisă pe cât de clasică, pe atât de subversivă: ce se întâmplă atunci când destinul unui regat nu stă în mâinile sorții, ci în palmele bătătorite ale unor vrăjitoare care refuză să aibă lideri? În centrul acțiunii o găsim pe Granny Weatherwax, probabil cel mai respectat lider pe care comunitatea vrăjitoarelor nu îl are oficial, forțată să navigheze printre intrigile politice ale coroanei. Apreciem modul în care Terry Pratchett construiește aici un sistem magic bazat nu pe formule arcane, ci pe „headology” – o formă de psihologie aplicată care demonstrează că percepția asupra magiei este adesea mai puternică decât magia însăși.
Construcția lumii în Wyrd Sisters este o demonstrație de forță a inteligenței narative. Ca și în The Colour of Magic, autorul explorează limitele absurdului din Discworld Novels, dar dintr-o perspectivă mult mai ancorată în analiza naturii umane și a puterii poveștilor. Dacă în lucrările sale timpurii, precum The Carpet People, Pratchett se concentra pe lumi microscopice, aici el extinde satira către structurile macro ale puterii și teatrului. Ne-a atras atenția felul în care autorul transformă clișeele shakespeariene într-un mecanism de ceasornic comic: avem regi uciși, fantome neliniștite și moștenitori pierduți, însă toate sunt filtrate prin pragmatismul tăios al celor trei vrăjitoare. Ritmul este alert, susținut de dialoguri pline de ironie fină și de prezența iconică a MORȚII, elemente care definesc întreaga sa operă și fac din acest volum un punct de referință pentru satira literară contemporană.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0063385554
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 131 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
Colecția HarperCollins Publishers
Seria HarperCollins Publishers
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Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor care apreciază umorul inteligent și dorește să vadă cum ar arăta tragediile lui Shakespeare dacă personajele ar avea un strop de bun-simț rural. Veți câștiga o perspectivă proaspătă asupra puterii cuvintelor și a spectacolului politic, totul într-un format accesibil de tip paperback. Este lectura ideală pentru a înțelege de ce Terry Pratchett a rămas o figură legendară în literatura fantasy mondială.
Despre autor
Sir Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) a fost unul dintre cei mai prolifici și iubiți scriitori britanici, faimos pentru crearea universului Discworld Novels. Cariera sa a început în jurnalism la 17 ani, debutând editorial cu The Carpet People în 1971. De-a lungul vieții, a publicat peste 50 de volume, traduse în zeci de limbi și vândute în peste 100 de milioane de exemplare. Recunoscut pentru serviciile aduse literaturii, a fost înnobilat în 2009 și a primit numeroase distincții, inclusiv Medalia Carnegie. Opera sa rămâne un etalon al satirei fantasy, îmbinând umorul absurd cu observația socială profundă.
Notă biografică
Terry Pratchett (Author)
Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
www.terrypratchettbooks.com
Joanne Harris (Introducer)
Joanne Harris is the internationally renowned and award-winning author of over twenty novels. Her Whitbread-shortlisted novel Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is the author of several other bestsellers, including The Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for Monsieur Le Curé and The Strawberry Thief. She has also written acclaimed novels in such diverse genres as fantasy based on Norse myth (Runemarks, Runelight, The Gospel of Loki), and the Malbry cycle of dark psychological thrillers (Gentlemen & Players, Blueeyedboy, and Different Class).
Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE, and in 2022 an OBE. She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass and flute in a band first formed when she was sixteen, and works in a shed in her garden. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and served for four years as Chair of the Society of Authors. She also has a form of synaesthesia which enables her to smell colours. Red, she says, smells of chocolate.
Descriere scurtă
Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the second book in the Witches series, part of the Discworld novels.
'Pratchett's Discworld books have made millions of people happy' Guardian
'Comedy fantasy at its very best' 5-star reader review
'Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.'
Three witches gathered on a lonely heath.
A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the royal crown, both missing. Witches don't have these kinds of leadership problems themselves - in fact, they don't have leaders.
Granny Weatherwax is the most highly regarded of the leaders they don't have. But even she finds that meddling in royal politics is a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe.
Particularly when the blood on your hands just won't wash off . . .
Wyrd Sisters is the second book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Praise for the Discworld series:
'[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
'Pratchett is a master storyteller' Guardian
'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin
'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express
'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch
'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction
'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times
'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph
'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune
'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX
'[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard
Descriere
The funniest, most insighftul, clever and totally bonkers parody of all things Shakespeare, filled to the brim with Pratchett's signature style.
'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own' The Times'The Discworld novels have always been among the most serious of comedies, the most relevant and real of fantasies' Independent
'An enduring, endearing presence in comic literature' Guardian
Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders.
Granny Weatherwax was the most highly regarded of the leaders they didn't have.
But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe...
Readers love Wyrd Sisters:
'Witty, well written, amusing anecdotes, Shakespeare/real life parody, DEATH, witches it has to be Terry Pratchett' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'There were so many instances here where I didn't only have to chuckle but laugh out loud . . . the entire book was full of fast-paced fun' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Pratchett's version of what would happen if Hamlet and Macbeth had been set in the Discworld universe . . . there are too many aspects of awesomeness about this book' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Brilliant and funny and wonderfully insightful' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Wyrd Sisters is the funniest and the wittiest Macbeth parody with the familiar Pratchett's style' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A great story, hilarious, witty, full of irony and so well written. This has been my favourite Discworld volume so far, and I am so happy I still have so many to go through!' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐