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Lädt ... Andere Stimmen, andere Räume (1948)von Truman Capote
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Altre voci altre stanze potrebbe essere liquidato come l'ennesimo romanzo di formazione se non fosse così maledettamente ricco di significato. Ciò che mi ha colpito di più è stato il disperato bisogno del protagonista tredicenne – Joel Knox – di essere amato, un grido muto, ma non meno potente, che si sente lungo tutto il romanzo. Un elemento dal sapore autobiografico, data la sfortunata infanzia di Capote, segnata da due genitori litigiosi e spesso assenti. In questo modo, l'autore deve aver imparato presto il gusto amaro della solitudine. Così accade a Joel, che, tentato dalla prospettiva di trovare suo padre e, soprattutto, il suo affetto, si trasferisce a Noon City, nella casa paterna, Skully's Landing. Fin da subito il Landing appare un luogo lontano da ogni civiltà e consuetudine: lì il tempo sembra avere una propria scansione e i suoi abitanti sono altrettanto confusi tra realtà e sogno. E in questo limbo Joel raggiunge la sua maturità: scopre che il padre delude ogni sua aspettativa, che la sua sessualità non segue una strada definita e che, per non perdersi, deve andare via da quel luogo di incubi e misteri. Come a dire che deve abbandonare la fanciullezza per una maturità consapevole. Truman Capote's debut novel is amazing. It's been described as hallucinogenic or "gothic on steroids". I would have to agree with both descriptions. I listened on audio, which was a full immersion experience. The story is reportedly semi-autobiographical. It opens with Joel Knox, a young 12-year old boy traveling to meet his father for the first time in his life. Up till now he's lived in New Orleans, but his father lives at a place called Skully's Landing - very remote and difficult to reach place in the deep south. At Skully's Landing Joel encounters a menagerie of characters and odd incidents. Some of the incidents seem to actually occur, where others are only in Joel's imagination. Altogether a wonderful listen and a good distraction! Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a literary touchstone of the mid-twentieth century. In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at Skully’s Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his morose stepmother, Amy, eccentric cousin Randolph, and a defiant little girl named Idabel, who soon offers Joel the love and approval he seeks. I generally love Capote's use of language, but in this one it was not as enjoyable as in his later works. There were some paragraphs that were breathtaking. The bigger problem for me was that I felt the story and the characters were not capturing my attention. I have noticed this is often the case with these gothic style novels; maybe because they focus so much in creating the atmosphere? And, to be honest, atmosphere is rarely enough to make a book interesting for me. I was left with a quite empty feeling after finishing this. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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