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Chargement... La découverte de la saucisse au curry (1993)par Uwe Timm
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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. Such a sweet and tender book. It's not a love story - apart from anything else love would be too grand for this book - although it is infused with care and affection. This is a book about an ordinary, but extremely talented and perceptive, woman, remembering a few weeks in her life at the end of the war in Hamburg. It is lovely to read and very satisfying in a warm way. It is comfort food of the highest order. Set in Germany during the end of WWII. The story of a woman street vendor who invented curried sausage. Interesting to read a book set in Germany during the war and while the story could have only taken place at that place and time, it wasn't so much about the fighting and the horrors that were happening as much as how people lived day to day. Un fumetto particolare, più per la storia che per il disegno e la sceneggiatura. Il fumetto è tratto dal romanzo di Uwe Timm e ha come protagonista la signora Brucker, la donna che, secondo l’autore, ha inventato la currywurst, incredibile mix del cibo tedesco per eccellenza, il wurstel e della spezia esotica più popolare, il curry. La storia è ambientata ad Amburgo al termine della seconda guerra mondiale. La città tedesca soffre, come tutto l’Europa, la fame, divisa tra la paura del futuro da sconfitti ed il presente da Paese da dimenticare. La signora Brucker lavora in una mensa per anziani, ha il pallino per la cucina, vive sola e trova in uno scenario catastrofico anche la forza per l’amore. Ed il soldato che nasconde, che ha viaggiato e combattuto in nome di un ideale nel quale non si riconosce più, decidendo alla fine di disertare le racconta del sapore straordinario del curry. Ma nulla a che vedere con il wurstel. Alla fine della guerra, o all’inizio della pace, la signora Brucker acquista un piccolo chiosco di wurstel; deve trovare le materie prime, non è semplice in quella Amburgo. Ed in un vertiginoso valzer di baratti le capita una confezione di curry, cade per le scale ed il barattolo si apre, a casa lo assaggia su un wurstel, inventa un prodotto nuovo, l’innovazione è quasi sempre frutto di causalità. Alla fine, alcune pagine descrittive sulla città di Amburgo in quel periodo e sulla storia della signora Brucker. Insomma, un onesto ed apprezzabile lavoro.
Den rakt berättade långnovellen bär Timms typiska signum: den omsorgsfulla respekten för karaktärerna, det sociala engagemanget och den milda humorn Därför är den här boken en mycket lämplig aptitretare för den som förutom currywurst också vill smaka på den spännande tyska litteraturen. Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dans
"A bestseller in Germany, The Invention of Curried Sausage was tagged a "novella," in the original sense of the word, "a little piece of news." This is what author/narrator Uwe Timm uncovers about a popular German sidewalk food, curried sausage." "Timm is convinced it originated not in Berlin in the fifties as generally supposed, but much earlier in his native Hamburg. He tracks down Lena Brucker, now living in a retirement home there. And, yes, curried sausage was her invention but it's a long story, one that Timm cajoles from her during a number of tea-time visits. It all started in April, 1945, just before the war's end when she met, seduced, and held captive a young deserter. The war was over, the lover escaped, and Lena Brucker, with remarkable ingenuity, went into business. That's where the sausage comes in!"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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My copy of this book (New Directions paperback, the edition I have chosen here) says this is a novel. Yet googling suggests this is more of a memoir, that Timm does not believe the standard story the curried sausage (aka currywurst) was invented in the 1950s in...Berlin. He remembers it from the 194os in Hamburg. I neighbor had a stand and sold it there. Even the back of the book says this--while also classifying it as a novel.
So, I'm confused and a bit annoyed LOL. ( )