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Alessandro Baricco
City
Title: City
Author: Alessandro Baricco
Format: Paperback
Language: French
Pages: 0
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ISBN: 2226115307
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The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel
about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere
in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel
Prize. His only companions are an imaginary giant and an imaginary mute. Improbably—and yet
with impeccable logic--he falls into the care of Shatzy Shell, a young woman whose life up till
that point has been equally devoid of human connection .
Theirs is a relationship of stories and of stories within stories: of Gould’s evolving saga of an
underdog boxer and the violent Western that Shatzy has been dictating into a tape recorder
since the age of six. Out of these stories, Alessandro Baricco creates a masterpiece of
metaphysical pulp fiction that recalls both Scheherazade and Italo Calvino. By turns exhilarating
and deeply moving, City is irresistible.
Insightful reviews
Dominique: CITY is the title. You will not recognize any specific city. It's more the sketching of a
city, it's skeletor.
The novel is constructed like a city-map. We don't know where we are going, but we follow the
thread of streets and avenues.
In CITY, there is no story, there are stories.
In CITY, there is no plot, there are characters moving around in a perfect chaos reminding
dream's disjointedness.
In CITY, nothing is true, all is imaginary, mirage, fantasy, illusion....
Pictures hang together, fit together, fit perfectly, come up against each other....
The writing ondulates, waves, metamorphoses, breaks down progressively.
As the characters meet in this city, all styles cross in CITY: heroic, surrealist, soliloquy, comic,
duels, sentances of pure contemplation, pathetic and stirring extracts.
Sometime, we lose our way. We get lost in this town.
It feels good to let ourselves lose by BARICCO in his CITY.
Kharen: "Si pierdes un caballo, puedes hacer dos cosas: correr tras él, o quedarte donde hay
agua y esperar a que tenga sed. A mi edad, se corre fatal, pero se espera divinamente"
Quisiera transcribir el libro completico, pues intentar explicar las sensaciones... es como un
calidoscopio que va girando, de luces y formas que apenas existen el tiempo necesario para
saborearlas y se esfuman, dando paso a otros colores. Extractos de agitación y temblores.
Un niño genio, una chica lista, profesores universitarios que lloran como chiquillos, un
boxeador, el más hermoso western jamás leído, un manicomio,
Todos son personajes sin trama unificada, el sueño de la desarticulación sin fracturas, ondas
que se comunican, seres que existen dentro de un sueño que algún amigo imaginario dice
haber leído en un trozo de papel vuelto cenizas.
Los libros de Baricco siempre tocan la vida de perfil, como un espejo brumoso, trátese de un
pintor de palabras, un traficante de gusanos de seda, un boxeador fuera del ring, un pianista
del océano, chicos que crecen sin darse cuenta donde quedo la inocencia, o donde quedo la
vida, o que estábamos haciendo mientras el tiempo tejía sin respiro trampas y aventuras detrás
nuestro.
"Y entonces, ¿a que viene este arrastrarse entre la niebla de mis cataratas, obligado a contar
las horas, yo, que conocía los instantes, y era el único tiempo que existía para mí? El nistagmo
de una pupila, los nudillos blanqueando en torno a un vaso, una espuela en la ijada de un
caballo, la sombra de una sombra sobre la pared azul. He vivido eternidades allí donde los
otros veían momentos. Lo que para ellos era como un destello, para mi era como un mapa; una
estrella donde yo veía cielos. Yo pensaba desde dentro de pliegues del tiempo que para ellos
eran ya recuerdos. No hay otra forma, me enseñaron, de ver la muerte antes de que llegue. Y,
entonces ¿a que viene este arrastrarse entre la niebla de mis cataratas, obligado a espiar las
cartas de los demás, mendigando bromas desde mi silla, siempre la misma, en segunda fila,
lanzando piedras a los perros por la noche, en mi bolsillo el dinero de un viejo que las putas ya
no quieren, será para un mariachi, cuando venga, que sea triste y larga tu canción, muchacho,
dulce tu guitarra y lenta tu voz, quiero bailar, esta noche, hasta el ocaso de esta noche,
bailaré."
Javier Villaseñor: Porque es un laberinto: las palabras, la mente, cada una de las personas que
nos encontramos, los cruces de camino: cada una de las intersecciones, y repentinamente todo
está claro. Jodidamente claro. Se busca mientras poco a poco todo se pierde, se desliza hacia
la nada, en una bella curva, un círculo cerrado que inicia y termina con el olvido, la necesidad
de olvido. Un juego de memoria.
Y es hermoso perderse. Es hermoso olvidarse. Es hermoso no tener un mapa en las manos y
sólo seguir las líneas que te llevan de ninguna parte a ningún lugar. El espejo de una bella
imaginación: puro caos. Es hermoso perderse, afuera, en uno mismo, de uno mismo. Es
jodidamente hermoso.
Eduardo Corona: "Kids want certainties."City is every thing yet a unique a couple of city,
approximately an city area of any kind. Baricco says all of it in his cryptic description: tales are
neighborhoods, characters are streets. the remaining is time because it passes, a willingness to
wander and a necessity to look. during this novel, Baricco makes use of his lyrical, non-linear
sort to explain the interweaving tales of Gould, a tender and misunderstood prodigy who's on
my own with the exception of his imaginary buddies (Diesel the large and Poomerang the mute),
his professors and the whimsical Shatzy Shell. Of Shatzy Shell and her unfinished western, a
few city robbed of its time, of its destiny. Of Larry "Lawyer" Gorman, a wealthy child with a
expertise for boxing who's dancing his technique to the top, simply to see how a ways he can
go. Of Mondrian Kilroy, a professor whose sensibility leads him to find highbrow honesty is an
oxymoron. it's tricky to explain a unique by way of Baricco, simply because it isn't frequently in
regards to the plot, in regards to the tales in it. up to Oceano Mare is the impossible to resist
calling of the sea, the feeling of being marooned or tossed and grew to become by means of
life, urban is the wandering, the journey, the exploration of existence throughout the small and it
sounds as if trivial things, like kicking a football ball and feeling alive.
Fede: Quando recensisco Baricco rischio sempre di scivolare nel banale e nel ripetitivo,ma
tant'è.Spero vi acconentiate di sentirvi dire che due personaggi migliori e più diversi di questi
non poteva sceglierli.Al limite dell'inverosimile,complementari come pochi.E non è nemmeno
una storia d'amore!Poesia,poesia,poesia,poesia.
MJ Nicholls: Cloying whimsy. Uncharmingly meandering.
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