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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A colpire subito non è tanto l’espediente della seconda persona, quanto la minuziosità della descrizione - anche Perec, che è di una generazione dopo, spesso agiva così - , che dilata totalmente la dimensione del tempo facendo corrispondere alle prime 15 pagine del libro una quindicina di secondi al massimo di storia narrata. E poi a colpire è l'innestarsi del passato sul presente, del presente sul passato, con il tempo lineare del viaggio in treno che il libro descrive (Butor era figlio di ferroviere) a espandersi, nuovamente a dilatare il tempo e la percezione, attraverso la centralità che la minuziosa descrizione delle cose ha per l'autore. Opera del 1957, tradotta molto bene da Del Buono nel '59, caposaldo del nouveau roman di cui, ripensando proprio a autori come Perec, colgo la grande importanza e influenza. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Léon Delmont begins to mull over his past and question the decisions he has made about his future. These musings - together with his impressions of the unfolding scenery, conjectures about his fellow passengers and some recurring leitmotifs - form the basis of a riveting narrative that provides a psychological case study of an everyman and subtly illustrates the onset of the protagonist's doubts and fears.Published in 1957 and awarded the prestigious Prix Renaudot, Michel Butor's groundbreaking third novel remains the most popular and widely read work of the nouveau roman genre. Famously written in the second person in order to immerse the reader more fully into the psyche of the main character, Changing Track pulls off the rare feat of being at once experimental and accessible, disquieting and engrossing. No library descriptions found. |
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