In Red - Couverture souple

Tulli, Magdalena

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1935744089 ISBN 13 : 9781935744085

Editeur : Archipelago, 2011

Synopsis

Paperback

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Like all great works of art, Tulli¢s books create something new, something that doesn't correspond to what the reader has been conditioned to expect. —Rain Taxi

As Tulli demonstrated with a quick swish of the knives, story can keep peeling off from itself and regenerating, like a snake with ever renewable skin. —Eleni Sikelianos

Tulli strings together stories with compelling logic . . . Her evocation of a town where everything beautiful is tainted with death never feels far removed from reality. —The New Yorker

There is much to treasure. Tulli plays with the line between unexpected and quirky very well. . . . You can't help but to want to return again and again. —NPR

Enchanting. . . . Bill Johnston's translation is simply gorgeous. —The Coffin Factory

Powerful imagery caught in a sinewy, architectural, elegiac prose. An inner-outer dance of cityscape with the taut emotion, terror & psyche of the 'human.' Where are we? What magical zone of dream and stone? We are inhabitants of the wild, brilliant imagination of Magdalena Tulli. This book is a great pleasure to read: deeply provocative, intuitive, haunting. 'I hunt among stones' was Charles Olson's probing line, a mission manifested here with full beauty & finesse. And rendered from Polish to English in an inspired translation by Bill Johnston. —Anne Waldman

A beautifully flowing translation. Johnston aptly captures the dreamy as well as the stark quality of the original. —Danuta Borchardt

Extrait :

Whoever has been everywhere and seen everything, last of all should pay a visit to Stitchings. Simply take a seat in a sleigh and, before being overcome by sleep, speed across a plain that’s as empty as a blank sheet of paper, boundless as life itself. Sooner or later this someone—perhaps it is a traveling salesman with a valise full of samples—will see great mounds of snow stretching along streets to the four corners of the earth, toward empty, icy expanses. He’ll see pillars made of icicles, their snowy caps lost in the dark of a wintry sky. He’ll draw into his lungs air as sharp as a razor that cuts feeling away from breath. He’ll come to appreciate the benefits of a climate forever unencumbered by restless springtime breezes, by the indolence of summer swelter, or the misty sorrows of autumn. He’ll take a liking to frost, which conserves feelings and capital, protecting both from the corruption of decay.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Archipelago
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935744089
• ISBN 13: 9781935744085
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200