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Emmaus (2009)

by Alessandro Baricco

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Four teenage boys stand on a bridge in the rain, staring down at a fast-flowing river. They're not talking; they're all thinking about the beautiful and enigmatic Andre--only a few months before, she had piled on every piece of clothing she owned and jumped into the black water below. Since then, the boys have been obsessed with the girl who tried to kill herself--the girl who takes men one after another into the bathroom of the local cinema, and who is forcing these devout Catholic boys to question everything they know about devotion, desire, and sin. A haunting novel from one of the masters of contemporary European fiction, Emmaus brilliantly evokes the perils and uncertainties of youth.… (more)
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I have no idea how to rate this book. ( )
  Menshevixen | Oct 13, 2020 |
A volte vien facile sparare su Baricco, come lo si potrebbe fare su De Carlo. Mentre sul secondo i motivi ci sono quasi sempre, sul nostro no. Ogni tanto verrebbe da caricare il fucile a pallettoni, su questo 'Emmaus'. Quando diventa didascalico e pretende di insegnare, anzichè portare alla rivelazione - cosa di cui peraltro è assai capace, e lo fa, qui e la'.
Sa giocare con le parole, e in alcuni punti stupisce per gli equilibrismi - meno che altrove, tuttavia.
Di questo salvo il bianco lattiginoso che pervade la grafica e la scrittura; il ricordo dei miei diciassette anni - e oltre - che ho trovato sparsi; la delicatezza delle parole e dei sentimenti; la ricerca dei demoni che solo a quella eta' è cosi' nitida e pura. ( )
  bobparr | Dec 14, 2014 |
An odd little book, written in a lovely style. And where it gets points for this, it loses them for a nebulous plot. The last third lays out happenings that I followed, but the first two-thirds was more a laying down of words from which you could gleam parts of the lives of 4 boys.

The four boys are good church-goers, even playing in their band for the benefit of other church goers. They are in their final years of schooling, and are a tight group. They are growing up. But (there's always a but), they are enchanted by a young woman called Andre. She is beautiful, alluring, complicated and well out of their reach. They find over the course of a few key events that they have drifted apart. Some fare well, some the opposite. ( )
1 vote LovingLit | Nov 6, 2012 |
A beautiful book, seemingly simple, which will leave you to think long after you've finished reading. ( )
  sanne7788 | Oct 19, 2012 |
VOTO: 7,5

Mmh... carino. E' la classica storia dove l'intero spettro delle cose che possono succedere nella vita accade ai 4 o 5 personaggi -_- (e.g. uno si droga, l'altro vince alla lotteria, l'altro si suicida, l'altra fa la troia, l'altra si fa suora, l'altro [quello che si drogava] diventa famoso a Uomini e Donne [e poi si suicida {vedi 3}]., l'altra viene rapita dagli alieni [la troia], etc etc... avete capito il senso, no?) --- Sia chiaro che non ho spoilerato, era tutto un mio esempio >__> meglio specificarlo onde evitare inutili discussioni >__>

E lo stile di scrittura da una parte mi piace, perché è pensoso (anche se a volte sembra che Ale si rimiri in uno specchio dicendo -_-) ma dall'altra è lento...

D'altronde non si può avere tutto dalla vita. Anzi, non si può avere tutto da Baricco... ( )
  Malla-kun | Sep 22, 2012 |
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Pari all'amore immenso
Fu immenso il suo patir.

Giovanni Battista Ferrandini,
Il pianto di Maria
(ca. 1732)

His suffering was tremendous,
As tremendous as his love.


-- Giovanni Battista Gerrandini,
The Virgin's Lament
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Voor Dario Voltolini en Davide Longo, didactici

To Dario Voltini and Davide Longo
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De rode spider keerde om en kwam naast de jongen rijden.

We're all sixteen or seventeen years old, but we aren't really aware of it; it's the only age we can imagine; we scarcely know the past.
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Four teenage boys stand on a bridge in the rain, staring down at a fast-flowing river. They're not talking; they're all thinking about the beautiful and enigmatic Andre--only a few months before, she had piled on every piece of clothing she owned and jumped into the black water below. Since then, the boys have been obsessed with the girl who tried to kill herself--the girl who takes men one after another into the bathroom of the local cinema, and who is forcing these devout Catholic boys to question everything they know about devotion, desire, and sin. A haunting novel from one of the masters of contemporary European fiction, Emmaus brilliantly evokes the perils and uncertainties of youth.

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