Iulie 2020 - 1001 cărți de citit într-o viață

[Gabriel]

Tema Lecturilor Paralele pentru iulie este “1001 cărți de citit într-o viață” - cărți incluse pe celebra listă “1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die”, o listă de opere importante (doar în proză, fără teatru sau poezie) la care au contribuit peste o sută de critici literari, sub coordonarea lui Peter Boxall. Inițial favorizând puternic autorii de limbă engleză, fiecare nouă ediție a acestei liste a început să includă din ce în ce mai multe cărți și din alte literaturi, un bun instrument pentru a descoperi și autori mai puțin promovați în Occident.



Puteți găsi lista aici pe Goodreads, sau, dacă sunteți mai analitici și vreți să o studiați în detaliu, pe Google Docs.

Ca întotdeauna, fiecare dintre voi are la dispoziție două nominalizări și două susțineri.

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Nominalizări (#8):

3 x Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas de Hunter S. Thompson
3 x The Wasp Factory de Iain Banks
2 x Arcadia de Jim Crace
2 x Pereira Declares: A Testimony de Antonio Tabucchi
1 x Leaganul pisicii de Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
1 x The World According to Garp de John Irving

[Gabriel]

Două propuneri din partea mea:



The Wasp Factory de Iain Banks

.. what if Holden Caulfield was born on a remote Scottish Island into a disfunctional family, with a former anarchist for a father and a flower-power mother who ran away soon after he was born? Banks envisioned his angsty teenager character as a sort of alien living on a deserted planet, a translation of one of his science-fiction ideas. The object of the study is sanity and ethics when the individual is removed from the ordinary social interactions most of us take for granted.



Arcadia de Jim Crace

"t just under 350 pages, Crace's Arcadia still manages to feel epic in scale. I think that while many see Arcadia as an allegory of country versus city, it is more about vibrant life versus deathly artifice. “We flock in to the city," writes Crace,"because we wish to dwell in hope. And hope—not gold—is what they pave the cities with.”

[Victor]

Sustin ambele tale propuneri, Gabriel. De a doua m-a convins un review de pe pagina cartii:

The anonymised setting works well. Crace sets of many current debates going at once, rather like a plate spinning act and he manages to keep them up. The current debates about conservation and development; is growth necessary and inevitable? Who suffers when communities are uprooted? Can those who oppose the big conglomerates ever get justice? Is protest a waste of time? How can small people ever win against the powerful?
Lots of questions and ideas woven into a very effective story; Crace just sets the debate going and does it rather well

As vrea sa propun: Cat's Cradle si Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[Gabriel]

Susțin Fear and Loathing...

[Gabriel]

Ultima șansă la propuneri!

[Adriana]

Propun si eu doua carti:

The World According to Garp de John Irving

"This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes—even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries—with more than ten million copies in print—this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."

Pereira Declares: A Testimony de Antonio Tabucchi

"Dr. Pereira is an aging, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Portugal, until one day he meets an aspiring young writer and anti-fascist. Breaking out of his apolitical torpor, Pereira reluctantly rises to heroism."

[Victor]

Sustin Pereira Declares.

[Adriana]

Sustin The Wasp Factory si Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[Gabriel]

Am deschis voturile!