Title: The Life & Times of Michael K. Author: JM Coetzee
Publisher: Einaudi ET 2001 - 2007
Synopsis: Michael K. is an adult quiet and poor, about the bare essentials, has no friends or girlfriends, only has the intelligence of the hands and body, has no regrets and has no hope because they do not have the mental categories to express them, life is just waiting to last until able to work. But in South Africa ravaged by a war indefinitely and without sides, to lead a "normal" for lack of happiness lived by Michael, from his mother and many like them, is degraded in an unbearable misery that forces man to take refuge in the mountains, away from humans and free from the thoughts and words to express them.
War stana even from that little Michael, resigned paradise. Forced to finally take action that will never have the peace of solitude and that the 'other' is his peers, the ones who will ever have, Michael is much more convoluted, complex, pragmatic and appropriate to survive, those who, having more tools, mental categories and regrets accustomed to relying on misleading and reassuring continuity of logical thought. Slow but steady, Michael transformed from mature mind "small" in a focused mind on the world.
See also: The Glass Palace (Amitav Ghosh), Melee ( Iain Banks), Life Policy ( Lydie Salvayre ) ...
Ascoltavo : Amnesiac (Radiohead), Toxicity (System of a Down), Exciter (Depeche Mode). Origin of Symmetry (Muse) Mutter (Rammstein). I Popol Vuh si stavano sciogliendo, i Mars Volta si erano appena costituiti.
Era il 2001 : Pessimo inizio in gennaio quando, a El Salvador, un terremoto provoca più di 5.000 morti. In maggio elezioni in Italia: Berlusconi e Fini, allora amiconi, battono il duo ulivista Rutelli-Farassino, così il centrodestra torna al governo insieme alla Lega. Ma non cambia mai questo Paese? (sì, certo, ma soltanto in peggio…)
Seguirà, l'11 settembre con l'attentato alle Twin Towers e, in dicembre, l'Argentina piomberà in una devastante crisi economica. Il botto si sentirà presto anche da noi.
Publisher: Einaudi ET 2001 - 2007
Synopsis: Michael K. is an adult quiet and poor, about the bare essentials, has no friends or girlfriends, only has the intelligence of the hands and body, has no regrets and has no hope because they do not have the mental categories to express them, life is just waiting to last until able to work. But in South Africa ravaged by a war indefinitely and without sides, to lead a "normal" for lack of happiness lived by Michael, from his mother and many like them, is degraded in an unbearable misery that forces man to take refuge in the mountains, away from humans and free from the thoughts and words to express them.
War stana even from that little Michael, resigned paradise. Forced to finally take action that will never have the peace of solitude and that the 'other' is his peers, the ones who will ever have, Michael is much more convoluted, complex, pragmatic and appropriate to survive, those who, having more tools, mental categories and regrets accustomed to relying on misleading and reassuring continuity of logical thought. Slow but steady, Michael transformed from mature mind "small" in a focused mind on the world.
See also: The Glass Palace (Amitav Ghosh), Melee ( Iain Banks), Life Policy ( Lydie Salvayre ) ...
Ascoltavo : Amnesiac (Radiohead), Toxicity (System of a Down), Exciter (Depeche Mode). Origin of Symmetry (Muse) Mutter (Rammstein). I Popol Vuh si stavano sciogliendo, i Mars Volta si erano appena costituiti.
Era il 2001 : Pessimo inizio in gennaio quando, a El Salvador, un terremoto provoca più di 5.000 morti. In maggio elezioni in Italia: Berlusconi e Fini, allora amiconi, battono il duo ulivista Rutelli-Farassino, così il centrodestra torna al governo insieme alla Lega. Ma non cambia mai questo Paese? (sì, certo, ma soltanto in peggio…)
Seguirà, l'11 settembre con l'attentato alle Twin Towers e, in dicembre, l'Argentina piomberà in una devastante crisi economica. Il botto si sentirà presto anche da noi.
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