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Ce roman évoque dans leur réalité la plus vivante, mais aussi dans leur secrète allégorie, quelques aspects particuliers de la Rome de l'an XI du fascisme. Il y a là une authentique peinture de certains milieux antifascistes de l'époque et du drame de leur révolte vouée à la clandestinité et à l'échec durant ces années où triomphait la dictature. La pièce de monnaie, le «...more
Paperback, 204 pages
Published
August 1st 1982
by Gallimard
(first published 1934)
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Nella Roma dell'anno XI dell'era fascista troviamo una serie di personaggi ruotare attorno a una moneta da 10 lire mentre viene preparato un attentato contro il duce.
Assistiamo così alle ragioni di Marcella, l'attentatrice, così come di altri co-protagonisti con le loro problematiche, tra povertà, malattia o confino politico.
In quello che forse è il primo romanzo francese ad affrontare la problematica di quegli anni la città dell'epoca e la città eterna si fondono nelle vite dei protagonisti, a...more
Assistiamo così alle ragioni di Marcella, l'attentatrice, così come di altri co-protagonisti con le loro problematiche, tra povertà, malattia o confino politico.
In quello che forse è il primo romanzo francese ad affrontare la problematica di quegli anni la città dell'epoca e la città eterna si fondono nelle vite dei protagonisti, a...more
Pas si réussi, ce roman-ci. Le procédé d'enchainer les personnages par une pièce de 10 lire qui va de main en main, me semble très orginel, mais ne donne pas plus d'ampleur à l'histoire. Le thème, la vie sous Mussolini dans l'italie des années trentes, est naturellement très intéressant, mais Yourcenar le racconte plutôt d'une manière monotone. Et alors, la marque d'auteur de Yourcenar, les remarques de sagesses, commence à énerver. Dommage.
Apr 02, 2010
Suna
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I am inclined to believe that anything that rolls from Yourcenar's pen is going to be exquisite. I look forward to reading this.
I did not like the writing (or maybe the translation) and it really didn't make me think or feel anything. I'm not sure what the whole point was. But hey, you might like it!?
This was a short, lovely book. On the day a young woman tries to kill Mussolini, a 10-lire coin changes hands nine times. The story follows each person who has the coin and their relationships with each other. Some of the characters interested me more than others, but the prose was always graceful, sometimes even arresting.
Italy
Mar 31, 2009
Lorena Francisca
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No pude terminar, porque realmente no me motivó. Se supone que trata de un atentado que nunca vi muy claramente...no sé si darle una nueva oportunidad, ahí estará esperando, porque tengo que cumplir con otros libros por ahora.
This is a spare but elegant little novel. The device of the same coin moving from person to person provides a little window on each character, some wealthy, some poor,but linked together in a sort of "six degrees of separation" way, in 1933 in Rome. The focus of the book is an attempted assassination of Mussolini, and each character's reactions, or lack of reaction.
marguerite yourcenar might just be too educated, serious, and academic to tell the kind of story i want to read. another way of phrasing that is that i might be too dumb, young, and frivolous to handle her books.
I did not like this book as much as Trina seems too. Perhaps I have read a different translation. I had savored every page of Letters From Hadrian. This book paled for me.
Read one book by this author already and enjoyed it so much I'd like to read another.
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Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour in Brussels, Belgium to Michel Cleenewerck de Crayencour, of French aristocratic descent, and a Belgian mother who died ten days after her birth. She grew up in the home of her paternal grandmother.
Yourcenar's first novel, Alexis, was published in 1929. Her intimate companion at the time, a translator named G...more
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