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Chargement... The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Formpar Cormac McCarthy
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Powerful 2-man play by McCarthy. ( ) "Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus" e pure McCarthy di tanto in tanto schiaccia un pisolino. Prima di leggere questo libro mi chiedevo: "Ma come fa un autore che ha fatto dell'eloquenza descrittiva il suo marchio di fabbrica a scrivere un'efficace opera teatrale?" E infatti non ce la fa. Nel senso che l'opera c'è, ma è ampiamente deludente, soprattutto se rapportata ai suoi romanzi. I personaggi sono statici, appiattiti nelle loro posizioni, il dialogo manca di ritmo e mordente, la tensione è altalenante e lo spessore delle argomentazioni lascia spesso a desiderare. Certo non mancano momenti in cui lo slancio poetico e il nerbo dell'autore si fanno sentire, ma nel complesso rimane un'opera fiacca. Lo scambio di battute tra i due protagonisti raramente coinvolge il lettore che si sente distante sia dal cinico nichilismo del bianco che dal cieco fideismo del nero. Va be', poco male, ci si può rifare con qualche suo altro capolavoro... --- Precedente: [b:South Park e la filosofia|32607700|South Park e la filosofia (Reprints)|Robert Arp|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1677828909l/32607700._SY75_.jpg|32018] Successivo: [b:Diario di un gatto con gli stivali|9727856|Diario di un gatto con gli stivali|Roberto Vecchioni|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327674836l/9727856._SY75_.jpg|14616700] Un encuentro fortuito en el metro de Nueva York propicia que dos extraños entablen una conversación a vida o muerte. En una habitación cerrada, un hombre negro y otro blanco mantienen una batalla dialéctica. El blanco es un profesor universitario que, a pesar de disfrutar de una amplia cultura y de una posición acomodada, vive sumido en la desesperación. El negro, sin embargo, pese a haber llevado una vida marcada por la violencia y la adicción a las drogas, mantiene una férrea esperanza gracias a su fe. En el transcurso del conmovedor y violento diálogo se pondrán de manifiesto dos visiones del mundo opuestas, con un solo objetivo: desentrañar el sentido de la vida. This is minor McCarthy, which is to say still better than most other fiction writers. I enjoyed the hardcore philosophical debate between the suicidal atheist intellectual and the deludedly faithful good samaritan, but wish Cormac had worked in there somewhere the less stereotypical but more realistic figure of the ethical and non-suicidal atheist. After all, he reportedly enjoys hanging out with many such clear thinkers in his resident egghead gig at the Santa Fe Institute.
The Sunset Limited is a technically and creatively pedestrian work that falls far short of what readers should expect of a master like McCarthy at this point in his career. “The one thing I won’t give up is giving up,” White says toward the end of the play, his language elevating and his curt sentences expanding into more elaborate musings. This is no mere argument anymore. It’s a poem in celebration of death. As his descriptive writing has, over the decades, economised so his discursive writing has expanded; read The Road as a two-character play with lengthy stage directions, and read The Sunset Limited as an intriguing companion to that work. Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansPrix et récompenses
"A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made." "In that small apartment, "Black" and "White," as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing worldviews. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men - though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life."--BOOK JACKET. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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