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Because I Was Flesh is an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience. Lizzie Dahlberg, separated from a worthless husband, works as a lady barber to keep herself and her son in shabby respectability amid the vice and brutality of Kansas City in the early 1900's. Her constant objective: to acquire a new husband who can give her security and help educate the child. She is attractive to men, but fate never brings her a good one. One suitor makes her put theboy in an orphanage - years of torment that are brilliantly described - and then betrays her. Another does marry her - and disappears with her savings. Lizzie is in despair, but soon begins to laugh at life again and arches her bosom for the next prospect. As he grows through a sensitive, painful adolescence, Edward is both fascinated and appalled by his mother. He adores her but is ashamed of her. He tries to escape, bumming his way to Los Angeles and later going to college in Berkeley, but is always drawn back. Even her death, with which the book ends, cannot release him. Seldom has there been so ruthless, and yes so tender a dissection of the mother-son relationship. And from it Lizzie Dahlberg emerges as one of the unforgettable characters of modern literature.… (plus d'informations)
A revelatory masterpiece that I have had on my shelves for forty-one years without reading; just as much an autobiography of Dahlberg's early years as it is a portrait of his hapless mother. She brought up Edward working as a "lady barber" in Kansas City at the beginnings of the twentieth century. Lizzie Dahlberg emerges as a fabulous figure, so beautifully wrought by her son's descriptions of the enduring love he holds for her, despite disgust, pity, poverty and the hopelessness of the men in her life.
There is much humour here as well, including this gem of a sentence: "After all, he had answered her matrimonial advertisement and his second visit, like the first, was already so prolix that again she realized she would be too tired after he left to take an enema."
It is time to revive Edward Dahlberg. He was put down by that professional Irishman, Frank McCourt who concocted "Angela's Ashes". He held modern writing as rubbish. Dahlberg had such a store of classical, mythological and theological knowledge that his story glistens with spectacular allusions. Read this man, buy his books. Demand his resurrection. ( )
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...Poiché ero carne, ed alito che svanisce e non ritorna. SALMISTA
"Perché piangi, Agar? Levati, togli il fanciullo, e fortificati ad averne cura; perciò che Dio ha udito la tua voce, e ha visto il fanciullo". E Iddio le aperse gli occhi, ed ella vide un pozzo d'acqua, ed andò, ed empiè il bariletto d'acqua, e diè da bere al fanciullo; e si levò e andò nel deserto di Paran. LIBRO DEI GIUBILEI
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Kansas City è una vasta città nell'interno del paese, e il suo fiume meraviglioso, il Missouri, riscalda i sensi; gli aceri, i sambuchi, gli olmi e i ciliegi, di cui la città è prodiga, sono canti di desiderio, e soltanto le mandorle dell'antica Palestina possono svegliare più profondamente i pori affamati. È una città selvaggia, concupiscente, dove quasi nessuno pensa alla morte finché non è vecchio o malato. Coloro soltanto che conoscono l'oceano, quando lo vedono, meditano sulla morte; invece gli uomini legati strettamente alla terra sono più sensuali.
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Quando la sua immagine mi si presenta improvvisamente - così come fanno i miei demoni cattivi - e rivedo i suoi capelli tinti di rosso, gli occhi rimpiccioliti dalla luce elettrica del Salone Stella, e l'angolo caro e spezzato della sua bocca, e quando guardo i suoi cenci folli, so che nemmeno Salomone sotto la sua veste di gigli era splendido quanto mia madre con i suoi stracci addosso. Selah.
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Because I Was Flesh is an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience. Lizzie Dahlberg, separated from a worthless husband, works as a lady barber to keep herself and her son in shabby respectability amid the vice and brutality of Kansas City in the early 1900's. Her constant objective: to acquire a new husband who can give her security and help educate the child. She is attractive to men, but fate never brings her a good one. One suitor makes her put theboy in an orphanage - years of torment that are brilliantly described - and then betrays her. Another does marry her - and disappears with her savings. Lizzie is in despair, but soon begins to laugh at life again and arches her bosom for the next prospect. As he grows through a sensitive, painful adolescence, Edward is both fascinated and appalled by his mother. He adores her but is ashamed of her. He tries to escape, bumming his way to Los Angeles and later going to college in Berkeley, but is always drawn back. Even her death, with which the book ends, cannot release him. Seldom has there been so ruthless, and yes so tender a dissection of the mother-son relationship. And from it Lizzie Dahlberg emerges as one of the unforgettable characters of modern literature.
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Edward Dahlberg and the Killer Sentence
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There is much humour here as well, including this gem of a sentence:
"After all, he had answered her matrimonial advertisement and his second visit, like the first, was already so prolix that again she realized she would be too tired after he left to take an enema."
It is time to revive Edward Dahlberg. He was put down by that professional Irishman, Frank McCourt who concocted "Angela's Ashes". He held modern writing as rubbish. Dahlberg had such a store of classical, mythological and theological knowledge that his story glistens with spectacular allusions.
Read this man, buy his books. Demand his resurrection. (