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winners and losers - Stanley Kramer (1961) Apotheosis

(Judgment at Nuremberg)

Visto in VHS.

La descrizione del processo a 4 gerarchetti nazisti nel 1948 (right of judges and a former minister of justice) courts presided over by a surprisingly open minded, willing to understand why the Germans first to condemn them in toto.

A film is important because it is the first (and to my knowledge, almost the only) to maintain a certain objectivity about Nazi Germany (it's also the first that I know of, to show real images of death camps after the liberation). Show all points of view, the most extreme (both the Germans, as the prosecutor now under indictment, and the Americans, as the current prosecutor) to the more moderate, rising for the 2000 facets political ideology (and Satanic system) has had on everyday life. There are no excuses (or acquittals, even for positive characters), but the desire to show and to understand how to live, go ahead, despite living in a Nazi state and doing nothing to oppose it. Certainly the continued, protested, invocation of ignorance about what happen in the death camps can be believed or not, but change little things, like the German lawyer says, they are being accused all Germans (and should not be the only).

As I said the faults are distributed appropriately, and absolution is not final (as it should be), but the film affords the luxury of defending the Germans and to understand them. No small feat.

PS: I never appointed Kramer, but he goes there with a legal wedding movie, and although quite small, dance with the camera, framing on multiple floors (all functional shots that are used to show in the first floor and second floor speaker who is appointed) and stop when in fact the circle would be superfluous. But sin for the all star cast, largely wasted.

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Olympia - Leni Riefenstahl (1938)

(Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit)

seen on VHS.

The second film based on the recordings Olympics of '38 about all sports not touched in the first. If it was in the athletics, we are all in this modern sports, from fencing, horse racing, the sport of water.

In this film, Riefenstahl dare more, aiming most of the races and transforming sul'estetica (whose results are less and less important) in the real challenges of bodies and shadows. Wonderful the initial sequence of screens and all of the board, in an escalation of risky shots and editing.

The Riefenstahl frames from every angle, they put a camera in the pool and uses the backlight, sports matches diventano quasi unicamente un tentativo di mettere in risalto l’azione fisica e l’estetica che essa incorpora.

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Novels # 38: New York in New York


It was (and is) my plan presented in this web space volumes of essays or city guides, but the beauty of blogs is that you can also take some liberties and give the body a number of exceptions that confirm the rule.
The idea was born from this digression to reprint the book of Professor Mario Maffi "Beneath the towers of Manhattan" , now revised and adjusted in the title and becomes, simply, New York . The book was released in 1998 and, as stated by the author nell'inedita chapter titled Time and the City , things will have changed a lot.
It 's true that this is not a novel but it is also true that it is a guide that reads like a novel, with New York the undisputed protagonist of the story with Maffi wandering time and space in the city.
The author tells it, even the shows with a passion that only a city like New York can give. The story of the city goes beyond the geometric map streets and avenues of downtown and uptown and guide us - not only in the topographical sense - even through and in the city: "Maybe this route south to north is somewhat forced and a director at some point you should abandon it, to enjoy Manhattan crosstown , horizontally. Then, one morning, take the 14th or the 23rd or 42th or 57th all ' East end of the island, the sun is behind you and illuminates everything ahead of you, and avviatevi toward the Hudson River, the west end. "
The appearance of the erudite guide, hundreds of facts, names, places, addresses are the frame, solid and timely exposure of a fluid, captivating narrative and tone, with the support of a rich iconographic and visually stimulating .
Maffi love the city and this love leads him to a sincere critique of what is wrong, even dispelling stereotypes about what to see and what you can avoid it, with a popular mission that pushes the reader / visitor to forced exit from the paths of tourism to discover the real city, the urban villages, cafes, markets of English Harlem, the Lower East Side, small parks, places history, short but intense of the Big Apple.
The very name of the chapters divided into Names, Maps, Below, Resorts, Museums, Words (this chapter that tells better than any comment on my blog because it comes as Novels in New York), Pictures, Sounds, Prism, bridges, is symptomatic of the originality of the approach to the city as well as more conventional titles or Museums Maps hidden treasures: "visit the MoMA is a little like sending a postcard to friends witness. Nothing wrong of course. But New York has other little gems that are no less emblematic of the MoMA or the Met ... These little gems are often organized in a different way in an attempt to engage the visitor, to turn it into an active user that is not only exposed, but literally put on stage. "
The fact that many of these chapters are essentially unchanged the first edition is a value-added work, a photograph of New York a few years ago, often different from today and not only because of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers.
Maffi love the city and this love led him to a sincere critique of what is wrong, even dispelling stereotypes about what to see and what you can avoid it, with a mission that drives popular the reader / visitor to leave the beaten track bound tourism to discover the real city.
New York is a city that we all know regardless of whether there was or not. One of the main effects of this book is that people who already visited the city will come back to see what has been lost and who is planning his first trip in the luggage will have the right tools to be a little more travelers and fewer tourists. It is not a trivial matter.
New York, Mario Maffei, Odoya, 2010

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Olympia - Leni Riefenstahl (1938)

(Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker )

Visto in VHS.

Documentario delle olimpiadi del 1938. Diciamolo subito, è un film di propaganda nazista perché è stato voluto e finanziato dai nazisti, ma salvo qualche svastica sulle bandiere e qualche immagine di Hitler (per lo più all’inizio) l’opera non sembra propendere troppo per i padroni di casa, e si limita a fare quello che è nei progetti. Un documentario sulle olimpiadi.

Le sequenze migliori sono quelle initial, where all is beauty and inventiveness, rather than a film where you are in front of a work of visual art. The film begins with the classical representation (Greek) of beauty, a comparison with current athletes and then running the Olympic torch from Olympia to Berlin (the same idea this Riefenstahl and some hierarchy). As I said, a series of stunning sequences, which alone shows the ability of the director.

Then the film actually becomes a documentary. Shows the sequences more interesting (and all finals) of different specialties. The Riefenstahl seems more interested in athletic than you results, but of course there are also races, shown with an array of enviable resources, trolleys, thousands of shots at the same time, close-ups, slow motion and thousands of details (the influence is very evident that the German director has given the royal sport). Although for my personal taste aside purely documentary has the greatest interest in showing the small differences with the present day, from people blockade achieved by digging holes in the ground, the high jump before the method Fosbury .

A very good film that shows great technique and the aesthetic taste of Riefenstahl and, in my view, the insistence of the shots in favor of Owens show some sympathy for the symbol of those Olympic sports that clashes with the idea of \u200b\u200ba director ... political leanings.

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The Black Swan - Darren Aronofsky (2010)

(Black Swan)

seen in the movies.

A dancer, almost out of time, still dominated by a mother who lives through her and inprigionata made acceptable only in a childish obsession with dance, getting the part of the prima ballerina in " Swan Lake. " Technically perfect, it has not the right spirit, the right look (the heart, says Cassel ), per interpretare il sensuale cigno nero. La sua frustrazione, la sua rabbia, ma anche la sua pulsione sessuale e la paura di essere sostituita determineranno in lei una trasformazione in una nuova personalità più carnale e viva; ma quello che lei vedrà (e che vede anche il pubblico) è una trasformazione fisica, una distruzione del suo corpo graduele e continua fino all'inevitabile finale che, come in una fiaba di Anderson, le donerà il successo, ma con costi enormi.

Non creod di esagerare se dico che il miglior film di Aronosfky (non ho mai visto " L'albero della vita ", ma a quanto pare fa schifo a tutti); and we blend in all his past works. There is so much "The wrestler ", framed with necks all the time, the camera that fills every frame with his protagonist, a character who lives through his body, which exploits and abuses in any way while to succeed (which I would almost say that Aronofsky is the most concrete of the new directors of the body horror ), but also puts us in the midst of all the disturbing madness " greek pi" (great use of sounds in this film like that) and the visrtuosismo behind the camera for "Requiem for a Dream " (but without all the fighetteria achiappagiovani).
Here I say here and deny it, this is also the best film about dance (ok, not of this kind I have seen many) as well as the best on the ratio (in this case patient) between art and life.

said that the film is a downward slide into the abyss of madness, made in a Relist and disturbing, a horror film that leads to true only in a sequence in the final for the rest of time creates a huge voltage constant as excessive and did not happen for quite some time now. It also has the advantage of not to exceed found in too kitschy (though there are, but we love them mmettere that Aronofsky) and uses a wonderful cast, with a Portman never so good.
Unfortunately, it is noted as the erotic component of the film has been greatly inflated by the critics, and those who go to see him only for what will dluso (I admit there are still bad ...).

An amazing film not seen for some time.

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Hot Fuzz - Edgar Wright (2007)

(Id.)

Dvx Seen in the original language with Italian subtitles.

Prior to being a great comedy, this is a wonderful film, a good action movie and a great mystery movie.

A policeman too good, so much to undermine all our colleagues, was sent from London to a rural village in the province, where everything seems quiet ... obviously it will not, even begin a series of deaths from all accidents considered ...

The film is exceptional. The direction is perfect, with a photograph at a tight fitting and precise functional and aesthetic choices (plus a small dose of gore to satisfy the most demanding). Magnificent continual nod to genre films, from action to horror, to the western city with the return of the policeman. (Emphasized by the scene where the two police officers watching "Point Break " and "Bad Boys 2 " while a parallel assembly are joined to the death of the scream).

As comedy it's all perfect, makes you laugh no ifs, ands or buts.

As action movies from us in the end. It is true the scenes are 10 and praise, but for a comedy are well above average. But what

che più colpisce è la precisione chirurgica della sceneggiatura, dove tutti i minimi riferimenti vengono continuamente ripetuti per tutto il film (dal “ficus”, al cigno ricercato) mentre quelli più importanti, quelli che raccontano la storia vera e propria vengono prima ostentati, poi raccolti per dare un movente che viene buttato all’aria per tornare all’ipotesi iniziale (non posso essere più reciso di così per evitare lo spoiler; però è stupendo il modo in cui il film gioca col pubblico, facendo credergli quello che vuole). Infine è da applaudire anche il citazionismo del film, non fine a se stesso, ma dapprima spiegato dai personaggi e poi incastonato perfettamente nel film, dandogli quindi thickness of a real (above all, of course, the URL scene "Point Break").

That is, a beautiful blend. A perfect film.

PS: the appearance of unrecognizable Peter Jackson in Santa Claus and the stabber Cate Blanchett in the ex-girlfriend Pegg .

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sadness Hello! - Otto Preminger (1958) Carmen Jones

(Bonjour tristesse)
seen on DVD.

A playboy is disentangling between parties in Paris and the beaches of the Riviera with her daughter which leaves a forest of enormous freedom and love of the moment. But when decide to put my head straight woman will choose a fairly stiff, but incredibly in hand, at least until the marriage proposal, after which you will feel compelled to protect the girl. Too bad she does not want to be protected and will in some way (not just a clever ploy, but effective) to make her leave. The woman will not bear the pain and kill you. From that moment the lives of father and daughter will continue the same as before, but where before their happiness was genuine, it will now be only a pretense of happiness.

stories during flashbacks in which the gray this is shot in B / N, while the past is a happy color.

The plot is incredibly intimate, not original, but told with the right look, always interesting and rightly so pathetic in the end. The tone is always apt and if Preminger not darts for inventive maintains the right way.

A chamber play garbarto and effective. Cast perfect.

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- Otto Preminger (1954)

(Id.)

seen on DVD.

Broadway just think all the people, and so here's the musical version of " Carmen" by Bizet and I say that work just because they took the music and they made us sing over the songs. Then we follow the adventures of a soldier torn between his girlfriend and the vamp in office that if he uses it as he wishes, puts him in trouble and he soon bored ... bad for her.

It should also be noted that the characters are all blacks, no small detail in 1954 ...

Needless to say instead that the songs are beautiful ...

Having said that though the details are finished. Preminger seems to have never seen a musical Minnelli to leave aside all choreography while singing the characters are merely doing what they're doing around la stanza; mentre il regista, al massimo, si accontenta di un piano sequenza per la parte musicale… niente di che comunque. Mentre tutta la messa in scena è ravvivata solo dal technicolor, senza nessun idea da parte del regista.

Il film quindi si riduce in un’idea carina, ma realizzata come storia, tecnicamente ed esteticamente senza originalità.

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The secret of a woman - Otto Preminger (1949)

(Whirlpool)

Visto in DVD.

La moglie di un noto psicanalista si scopre cleptomane, per la vergogna di essere alla stregua delle pazienti del marito decide di tenere per se quest’oscuro segreto e si affida ad un ipnotista ciarlatano. Lui dapprima l’aiuta, solve the troubles related to the theft and eliminates insomnia, but then the advantage, and while under hypnosis uses for its own purposes.

I'll be the skin that can not stand the stories of super hypnotists who make others do what they want, I'll consider that the idiotic stories, but the film is clearly unacceptable.

For heaven's sake, the art of Preminger plans to create small sequence is enhanced by the use of only internal, and then the camera is a dance between the characters giving a good frame of what film still remains a fool.

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Tommy - Ken Russell (1975) The Australian

(Id.)

seen on VHS in the original language with Italian subtitles.

Son of a soldier who died in the war witnessed the return home of the father, but unfortunately you will also assist the new mother's companion, which is outside the biological father. The shock of what will produce many problems in the tot. Become deaf and blind as well. growth will all until, by chance not regain your senses and become the leader of a sect, very useful to make money, but at least to attain enlightenment to his followers.

not a musical but a true rock opera with great music badged Who (which appartiane the concept). The story is a parable Christological, surprise, LSD and absolutely not predictable to the end, the basic concept which can escape, but the concepts that flutter in 2000 are well received.

Russell is a director who does not love you, because confusing, pretentious and excessive, in a word kitsch, yet this film is perfect. His brash style fits the mood and creates a rhythmic direction and never stops, focused on essential colors and shiny, with some remarkable inventions visual (on all the black cube for a head of the child, but also made the iron maiden syringes is not bad). Russell in questo film ha pure una fortuna, tutti gli eccessi o le cadute di stile (la cascata di fagioli e cioccolato che escono dalla tv; i pessimi effetti speciali quando Tommy corre; ecc…) sono facilmente imputabili agli anni ’70 e alle manie di quel decennio più che al cattivo gusto del regista.

PS: credo che in questo film ci siano più camei che attori: Clapton fa il reverendo, Elton John il campione di flipper, Jack Nicholson lo specialista, Tina Turner la splendida acid queen, ecc…

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- Jerzy Skolimowski (1978)

(The shout)

Visto in Dvx, in lingua originale sottotitolato in inglese.

Un tizio vissuto per 18 anni nell'outback australiano has learned a bit of magic tricks from the Northeast, including the cry that kills. Installatie gray little man in the house of a British-nothing will destabilize the couple's life, seduces his wife, destabilizes the mental health and kill a bit of sheep. To get rid of the gray inglesucolo he will have to resort to magic arts.

Films that would be deep, exotic while still in England and darkly mysterious (and mysteriously dark). Yet all I get is a great sense of emptiness of the plot and characters (because no one works in this film? Because no one makes decisions?) In Northeast sauce which is always cool, with some care in making the story to make it chaotic look deeper.

The result is therefore quite boring, interesting only at first, but then less and less concise, gets lost and loses the audience.

The director, however, he launches into several sequences of inserts have already seen, or sights that make it more confusing, but that operate in the sense of alienation and internal connection to the story, plus some authorial decision to the audience screamed in my face (the scene where his wife on all fours mimics the particular context of Bacon Black repeatedly shown up close, and at that moment the whole scene becomes B / N). More than a bad movie, an opportunity completely wasted.

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Novels # 37: This Kiss Go to the Whole World


Philippe Petit is a French tightrope walker on August 7, 1974 made a huge undertaking: travel the gap between the Twin Towers on a steel cable, to 417 mt. high, with no protection (for those who wish to learn there is a documentary film Man on Wire semplioemente or more from the interview with Fabio Fazio protagonist of this "Che tempo che fa in 2009).
insane and ingenious idea, prepared dall'acrobata and his staff for six years, meticulously, like a big robbery or an attack, but with no purpose other than the tragedy of 2001: "The sleepless nights , wandering the streets alone pale of the World Trade Center from a distance, with the lights on the towers seemed to just one. He stopped on a street corner and you threw up there, imagining the sky, silhouette of the blackest black. "
With This Kiss Go to the Whole World (Let the Great World Spin) Colum McCann, a writer already appeared in this blog post # 4 in , Petit says under the rope twisted fates of characters intense, engaging and sometimes shocking.
We are in New York in the early 70's, the less touristy the modern era. These are the years of dirty streets, Central Park dangerous, Bronx pericolossisimi and Harlem, the Village filled with drugs, graffiti tags and the explosion of color. And yet sultry air of the city McCann takes us into lives full of poetry.
We developed a passion for excellence econd-extremist Corrigan, neomissionario the Bronx, already as a boy in his Dublin stealing the covers of the closet to give to the homeless. In New York you will find what to do in one of the worst areas of the city.
We moved in knowing the elegant Claire who lives on the Upper West Side, in fact, there in the words of other mothers who, like her, have lost children in Vietnam. Among these is Gloria, a descendant of slaves, not wealthy but that comes in a beautiful harmony with Mrs. Uptown.
know the desperate life of the prostitute and her daughter Tillie Jazzlyn " One day I had gone swimming in Jazzlyn, have had some week. Her skin glowed. I looked and I thought that the word "beauty" was born with her own. I wrapped in a towel and I promised her that he would never beat the pavement ".
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And then there are Blaine and Lara, artists in the Village when it was full of artists, young programmers from Palo Alto, California working on what would become the internet, but for now they use technology to find out if the tightrope walker will succeed or not.
mounting cross-narrative, a young reader would not hesitate to describe as reflected by the films of Tarantino (even though we know that the father of all this is John Dos Passos ), makes reading flowing, enriched by a passion imbued from time to time by a light irony with which the author recounts the soul of the characters, managing to elicit empathy in the reader with all the protagonists, no matter with whom you can, or should , identify.
The wise distribution of territorial and ethnic history and events, forced the crossings in geometric map of New York offer numerous ideas for a passionate description of the city, seizing its inner aspects in a sublime "Coming to this city was like entering in a tunnel, he said, and discover with surprise that the light at its end was not important and sometimes it was just the light tunnel to make it tolerable. " This
Go Kiss the world closes with an epilogue set in 2006 and McCann show here, once again, his talent. Introduced a couple of new characters (well, one already glimpsed ...) and closes the circle with feeling and a bit of plausible hope. Do not betray the sense of the fragility of life and strength necessary for its defense, which runs throughout the novel, a concept that applies to us all, but perhaps it is even more true in New York City: "One of the wonders of New York that, wherever you come from, just minutes after landing yours already. " This
Go Kiss the world , Colum McCann, Rizzoli, 2011

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Invitation to dinner with crime - Robert Moore (1976)

(Murder by Death)

seen on DVD in the original language with English subtitles.

A mysterious individual ( Truman Capote, the writer, who curiously resembles a Malgioglio without tuft) calls for a weekend of the 5 best investigators in the world, will be revealed soon the true intent and put them in the race to see which of them is the best.

all star movie that makes fun of the classic yellow, the 5 stars are in fact the obvious caricatures of Poirot , Miss Marple, Nick and Nora Charles series "The Thin Man " Charlie Chan and a mixture of Sam Spade and Philip Marlow .

As I said to star in a film that stand out in particular David Niven, a splendid old Nick Charles, and Peter Falk role of a perfect Marlowe of questionable sexual identity.

The movie takes the liberty of quoting the books home, because the film (the wonderful conclusion just that Falk cites " Southern Waters"), it sfotte mechanisms and typical dynamics, and everything to take revenge on that kind (as discussed in the final).

A film really drunkard, conducted without a decision by Robert Moore (who is?), And the mechanism quite cumbersome (the writer is compelled to respond in turn to all 5 of the same facts, and it becomes more and more forced and surreal), but otherwise it's just a divertissement and as such should be taken, and as such fun.

PS: The film is full of puns (some idiots) that are lost or rendered completely or 2 times more jerks in the Italian version.

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pleasure and love - Max Ophüls (1950)

(La Ronde)

seen on DVD.

Based on work by Schnitzler the film follows ten people in their amorous encounters that follow them with each other in a sort of relay race of pleasure.

supported by a superb cast, the plot tends to lay bare the hypocrisy, the false naivete and deception put in place to make the sexual act decent, surrounding it with false, false love, false promises and a ring and customs. Ironically, then it seems that all men are indirectly linked by a series of reports.

On the whole, however, wins the shape and direction.

The form is supported by a deus ex machina that leads to pervasive and ubiquitous games, explains the report and move forward through the circle. This deus moves between characters and scenes from the unmasking of the fiction, including film. Superb start of the game in which the conductor walks through a stage in front of a stage and film set between trying to explain what he represents himself (not to mention the scene in which the coil cuts during the scene ' love between the actress and the count, humming the word "censorship").

The director is now blossomed ophulsiana classic, with a series of sequence shots more or less dizzy, but all delicate enough to be invisible if you're not careful. Ophüls designed a series of scenes based on his camera movements and not vice versa. Each story also has some unique styling, some attempt to frame the original, through the holes, through tissue, with crooked shots with a comparison with the flow of the restaurant, actors who look and speak in the room, etc. ...

A enjoyable film from every point of view, it also satisfies those looking for originality.

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Novels in New York # 36: The Great Gatsby in New York


La copia in mio possesso di questo libro fa parte di un cofanetto di Oscar Mondadori dedicato a Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), pubblicato nel 1970 con la traduzione che Fernanda Pivano curò nel 1950.
Ha qualche pecca tipografica come l’impaginazione sbagliata del capitolo introduttivo “Fitzgerald e il suo tempo” (bisogna leggerla a pagine alternate: prima la 8 poi la 10 poi la 9 poi la 11…). Ha un richiamo in copertina che in meno di venti parole dice troppo e anche di più della trama, e alcune pagine del romanzo non centrate bene. Tutto è compensato da un’ampia sezione saggistica corredata da splendide fotografie dello scrittore, colto nella sua vita private.
There are several editions of this novel (first appeared in Italy under the title of the Magnificent Gatsby in No. 89 of The Novels of Mondadori Palma in 1936) yet, despite the flaws, I would not change my copy no, not just for the photos.
E 'in this edition found in the family library that I went over to one of the masterpieces of American literature, a classic of its era. Written in 1925 (the same year Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos) The Great Gatsby marks a change in American fiction, offers a refined plot, engaging, which is at the same time a way to tell deep in the pleasure-loving America of the years that preceded the financial crisis of 1929.
The figure of Jay Gatsby, told through the eyes of a neighbor, Nick Carraway, is dramatic and seductive in its fragile grandeur.
A love never forgotten, the relationship with the mob, the will of social redemption, the golden solitude contributing to the creation of a character in the romantic sense closer to the concept known as the German word for sehnsuct , translated more or less with yearning, which shows an inner desire addressed to a person or thing that you love or want to strongly. The scenery is beautiful
Gatsby's West Egg mansion in the imaginary near real Long Island where, from time to time, it's off to New York aboard a fascinating automobiles "The city, seen from the Queensboro Bridge, a city that has always you see for the first time in its first mad promise of all the mystery and the beauty of the world. "
And in New York players have fun and compare. The tension grows, the antagonist and reactionary Tom Buchanan was giving it his all to appear unsympathetic, his wife Daisy contention becomes even more fascinating with its uncertainties and there is time for a careful look at the city as one of the young and athletic Jordan: "I like New York in the summer afternoons when there is none. There is something very sensual, overripe, as if all kinds of strange fruits were going to fall on his hand. ".
The Great Gatsby is a novel that does make big breaths, you read and reread, the American myth emanates from every page and ends beyond the end tied to the story, giving a breathtaking view of Manhattan, one of the most intense ever Written: "The man must have held their breath in front of this continent, compelled to aesthetic contemplation he neither desired not happen, as we face one last time in the history of something appropriate to its ability to surprise."
In the plot there are many autobiographical references on the life of Francis Scott Fitzgerald ( the house in Great Neck on Long Island, the fabulous and legendary parties, the elegance, the economic crisis, problems with his wife, alcohol ) and the reading of the introductory notes will be very interesting if not preparatory to the novel itself.
Today, forfeited the right to acquire the work, there are several Italian editions of this masterpiece, all readily available but with very different translations. What I suggest is always translated by Fernanda Pivano and published in the current series of Oscar Classici Mondadori (now unfortunately no photos). Another option to consider is the one published the Press, with translation of Franca Cavagnoli which has a more modern language, but still respectful of the original atmosphere.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Classici Mondadori, 2001

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Novels # 35: Fortress of Solitude


read this novel has been a factor.
being inside the old cartoons of Marvel wrapped as relics, tons of titles of tracks funk and soul and discover the satisfaction that I knew all, and three pages to track Rapper's Delight the Sugarhill Gang made me a reader satisfied and qualified. After the reading I went into my personal "bat-cave" with renewed devotion to admire my collection of original American comics incellophanati carefully and old LPs and 45s.
I've always been convinced that everything that collection had its poetic soul of literature, but sometimes in order to substantiate its belief that there is a need for a writer like Lethem that we confirm it.
Released by the bat-cave is in the spirit of the blog and the step Fortress of Solitude (The Fortress of Solitude) that, for the uninitiated, in addition to the novel's title is the name of Superman's secret hideout.
The book, first published in 2003, tells the Brooklyn of the '70s through the history of friendship between the white Dylan Ebdus Black and Mingus Rude, a friendship experienced between four streets of Brooklyn, a microcosm of the changing racial where "there are murmurs that whites are returning" .
Dylan, Ebdus and the other kids in the suburbs, including the tough Robert Woolfolk, grow on street games, petty theft, music, tags and graffiti on the walls, superheroes, bullying. And the drug, spiced with hopes no one knows what.
They dream of being superheroes and also for some of them the opportunity will present itself, thanks to a mysterious ring had inherited from a bum. But
Dean Street, Flatbush Avenue, Nevins Street, Bergen Street , not Manhattan, with its towers and skyscrapers, districts are horizontal, with low houses where no flying superhero, even their Aeroman, moves smoothly: "Dylan is close to the edge, at most, then closer. She slides one foot on the ledge, bend your knees as George Washington on the bow. He can see down the bottom of the pit of Dean Street, the tops of newly planted trees, grids on the roofs of buses passing through, but the feeling is dizzying. "
that road, where it takes place throughout the first part of the novel long and have little or nothing nice: "Brooklyn is not always felt able to look different from what it was, conscious and anxious, pointing Manhattan, as in Dean, in Bergen or in Pacific Street. Brooklyn, at times, was also pleased, as in Flatbush Avenue, to be herself, messy and persistent. "
Yet the appeal of the suburbs, where it grows, it is undeniable suffering and the hope is for the reader as to the writer. Those roads are the setting for the training of social acceptance, where it remains unclear who laughs at those who challenge those who are victims of those. Lethem's writing is vivid, sharp, and with dialogues that affect impact and there are exercises in style refined as the transition from third to first person narration after the first part of the novel and the writing of the liner notes of the CD box set Bothered Blue imaginary Subtle Distinctions group.
The events of the two protagonists and other characters such as Mingus's father, Barrett Rude (he is the former lead singer of the aforementioned Subtle Distinctions, probably inspired by Philippe Wynne of the Spinners ) are followed step by step from the '70s to ' 90, make us breathe the air of a District of New York literary and sap that is, in spite of family situations certainly not idyllic, even nostalgic dream for a generation of forty-fifty years old who have spent their youth to read with the greed comic books and liner notes discs until the last printed character, was that of copyright and credits microscopic printing. As someone has already
sospettato, le storie di Dylan, Ebdus e Robert e gli altri avranno destini diversi, non tutti con la stessa fortuna, ma le radici della strada sono difficili da estirpare.
Chiudo con una nota sulla copertina di questa edizione italiana del romanzo.
Credo che sia totalmente sbagliata.
Questa illustrazione del Red Nose Studio, perfetta nell'esprimere angoscia e oppressione, non evoca minimamente i contenuti del libro e non aiuta certo a dare al lavoro di Lethem una maggiore diffusione. Lethem, qui al suo sesto romanzo, resta in Italia un autore per intenditori e un progetto di grafica più accattivante e più in tema, come ad esempio quello realizzato per il libro di Claudia Durastanti Un Giorno Verrò a Lanciare Sassi alla tua window, not far from the atmosphere of this volume would have been more appropriate. Or just take any of cover American or British .
The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem, The Assayer Pocket, 2010