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Chargement... Le Sentier des nids d'araignees (1947)par Italo Calvino
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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. Esta es la historia de Pin, un chiquillo listo y precoz que en la Italia de la guerra y la resistencia corretea por las calles en busca de clientes para su hermana prostituta. Hasta que un día se le complican las cosas de manera irreparable: le roba la pistola a un marinero alemán y, desconfiando de los adultos, la oculta en un lugar misterioso, que él llama los «nidos de araña». Pin no logra escapar de los alemanes, que le prenden, le interrogan infructuosamente y lo envían a la cárcel. De allí conseguirá escapar junto con un resistente comunista conocido como el «Lobo Rojo» y no le quedará más remedio que lanzarse al monte, fascinado entonces por otro extraordinario personaje, Primo, un solitario partisano. Pero el lector, intrigado, no olvidará entretanto que el arma sigue oculta. Shit! Why do I even bother sometimes?! This ain't no review, it's a vague excuse for a memory. I associate Calvino w/ OuLiPo. I love OuLiPo. I consider myself to be an undiscovered OuLiPoian. Sortof. This is Calvino's novel about Italian resistance to the Fascists during WWII. A subject dear to my politics. Nothing OuLiPo about the writing though. Hans første roman i nyutgivelse og med nyskrevet forord av forfatteren sjøl. Vi er kanskje på slutten av 2.verdenskrig i Italia i en landsby - med en gategutt, hans prostituerte søster, noen landsbyfigurer, okkupasjonsmakten og motstandsbevegelsen. Hovedpersonene er Pin, en energisk og slagferdig gategutt, La voce di Fabio Zulli interpreta perfettamente il bimbo raccontato da Calvino, un bimbo che non è poi così diverso da tutti i bimbi che da soli, armati di bastoni, pistole o fucili giocattolo, hanno esplorato il mondo, un mondo inevitabilmente occupato dai grandi, un mondo insozzato dalle loro porcherie. Che intorno ci sia la guerra o che regni un'altrettanto pericolosa pace, piena di insidie e di pericoli ancora più subdoli e nascosti, o che i nidi di ragno stiano nascosti in riva a un ruscello ligure o sulle sponde boscose del Chisone, non fa poi tutta questa differenza. L'emozione è la stessa come è lo stesso il tentativo di colmare la distanza con un mondo adulto che attrae e respinge allo stesso tempo, come è lo stesso il tentativo di affermare una propria identità, un'identità che scava fossati e che costruisce ponti. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult patrons. After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans. Calvino's portrayal of these characters, seen through the eyes of a child, is not only a revealing commentary on the Italian resistance but an insightful coming-of-age story. Updated to include changes from Calvino's definitive Italian edition, previously censored passages, and his newly translated, unabridged preface--in which Calvino brilliantly critiques and places into historical context his own youthful work--The Path to the Spiders' Nests is animated by the formidable imagination that has made Italo Calvino one of the most respected writers of our time. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Anyway, what an amazing first novel it is. It's nothing like the weird and wonderful experimental fictions for which Calvino is famous: based on Calvino's real-life experience in WW2, it's a coming-of-age story of an orphan called Pin who inadvertently falls in with a group of Italian partisans. Pin is a cobbler's apprentice, but his employer Pietromagro is mostly in gaol for one thing or another, and his sister is preoccupied with making a living as a prostitute, so he grows up neglected, lazy and foul-mouthed. However — as it says in 1001 Books —
Pin is an exasperating child. He hangs around the bar picking up gossip and hurling filthy insults at the drinkers, so it's hard not to read between the lines that those who gave him the risky task that sets the plot in motion, wouldn't have minded too much if he hadn't survived it. They ask him to steal a German sailor's pistol...
The high tension scene where Pin crawls into his sister's room to get the pistol from her client is followed by an abrupt coming down to earth. Back at the bar, the men are quietly discussing the formation of a small partisan unit and they are not interested in Pin's carefully rehearsed theatrics. When he doesn't get the attention he craves, he runs away and hides the pistol.
But, because he's only a foolish boy, he doesn't hide the belt. He struts back into town brandishing it as he rehearses how he's going to impress everybody. The sailor recognises his belt and that brings Pin into the orbit of the Germans and the Fascists.
His sister and the sailor are both also at the interrogation, and Pin knows that the sailor has made up a story about the pistol to deflect any blame for losing it. Overnight, Pin has been kept awake by threats from Michel the Frenchman, who has promised to kill him if he talks about what he heard in the bar.
This blend of street-smart bravado and naiveté is enough to make a reader weep...
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/12/17/the-path-to-the-spiders-nests-1947-revised-1... ( )