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Novels in New York # 24: One Day I'll come and throw stones at your window


The closest thing to "One Day I'll come and throw stones at your window" I have read is the Official Biography Ramones di Jim Bessman e, sia chiaro, è un accostamento che faccio con piacere. Con quel piacere tipico del lettore che ha tra le mani un volume da scoprire e ne viene catturato già alle prime pagine.
Il romanzo d’esordio di Claudia Durastanti, italiana di Brooklyn classe 1984, è un affresco transgenerazionale che parte dalla fine degli anni 70 e giunge ai giorni nostri attraverso le vicende di giovani irrisolti, inquieti, più o meno angosciati dall’esistenza, che arrivano a Manhattan dal vicino eppur lontanissimo New Jersey, terra di periferia e di piccole trasgressioni sfrontate nel look e smarrite nell’anima: “Starai bene a New York. Sono solo venti miglia da qui, ma so bene che c’è un fiume in half, they just get there and find out how much you scare your diversity is commonplace here that you could sell so well. "
Jane and Michael, Francis and Zelda, Edward and Ginger live a postpunk version of the American dream ( the phrase "The American Dream is over" peeps since the cover), the boys will attract and repel the magnetic field of the city the world's most coveted among college premises, rented rooms, underground parties, but always surrounded by lots and lots of music (the author is an expert in indie-rock, a collaborator of the webzine IndieforBunnies ). What
old prof (who also ... about my age) called "young universe" here is gutted, sometimes almost vomited on the pages of the author's sharp as you can appreciate the ability to tell the years she has lived and serene (cynical?) distance by which ignores New York "fashion" to reveal unconventional corners and neighborhoods of the city, pop art, the opposition, the rebellion of the characters to something that perhaps did not understand what it is but in any case to which it is right to rebel.
The book proceeds with a fitting multilevel narrative, postmodern heir to the dictates of John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and his (I know, this blog I quote him often, but there you are) and descriptions that reveal a brilliant originality "The German word Neu (a record store, ed) of the sign was painted lime green, the color that most of the other Jessica associated with that type of music. What then is the color of the drains in the Batman cartoons and teeth of the Sex Pistols singer who calls himself Johnny Rotten. "
who wanted to attend any concert at CBGB, it stopped more than five minutes in front of a work by Basquiat to see America, who thinks that the disk was crap then and now rather than revalue, read Claudia's book and read it along with all others.
A day will come to throw stones at your window , Claudia Durastanti, Marsilio, 2010