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Rosso Floyd (2010)

by Michele Mari

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An award-winning work of epic alternative history tracing the rise of one of the twentieth century's most beloved bands: Pink Floyd
Hailed in Italy as an ingenious, genre-bending fictional account of the rise of Pink Floyd, Michele Mari's Red Floyd follows the illustrious rock band from infancy to world renown through the eyes of an incredible array of witnessesâ??real and imaginary, dead and alive.
Blending the true with the apocryphal, Red Floyd takes readers into the wild and rowdy world of English progressive rock and into the minds of such legendary figures as David Bowie, Stanley Kubrick, and Alan Parsons. Mari's narration opens a mesmerizing window onto Pink Floyd's most intense periods of creativity, its tawdry secrets, and its hidden inspirations, creating a rich tapestry that tells one of the most inventive stories in recent fiction.… (more)

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Michele Mari ancora una volta riesce a stupirmi con un suo libro, come già aveva fatto con Verderame, un piccolo gioiello della letteratura italiana, almeno per quanto mi riguarda.
Questo libro è completamente diverso ma altrettanto scritto bene e con ironia e sarcasmo.
"Rosso Floyd: romanzo in 30 confessioni, 53 testimonianze, 27 lamentazioni di cui 11 oltremondane, 6 interrogazioni, 3 esortazioni, 15 referti, una rivelazione e una contemplazione" così inizia questo viaggio nella storia di una delle band più famose del panorama musicale mondiale: i Pink Floyd.
Ogni capitolo (breve o molto breve) narra un punto di vista differente della storia: una confessione di uno dei membri, una testimonianza di chi gli stava vicino, una risposta al capitolo precedente per precisare, smentire o confermare.
L'idea di base è geniale perchè anche se, come premette l'autore, alcuni fatti e persone sono di fantasia, altri sono reali e aiutano a capire la storia di Syd Barrett e Roger Waters, della loro dannazione, delle problematiche personali e della band. Spesso mentre leggevo mi sono fermata a cercare sui wiki foto, notizie, conferme, copertine di album.
Penso che di mio non avrei mai letto una biografia dei Pink Floyd, anche perchè musicalmente non li conosco molto, ma questa è più che una biografia, è come se fosse una lunga intervista riportata scritta col valore aggiunto del pungente modo di scrivere di Mari.
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Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:

An award-winning work of epic alternative history tracing the rise of one of the twentieth century's most beloved bands: Pink Floyd
Hailed in Italy as an ingenious, genre-bending fictional account of the rise of Pink Floyd, Michele Mari's Red Floyd follows the illustrious rock band from infancy to world renown through the eyes of an incredible array of witnessesâ??real and imaginary, dead and alive.
Blending the true with the apocryphal, Red Floyd takes readers into the wild and rowdy world of English progressive rock and into the minds of such legendary figures as David Bowie, Stanley Kubrick, and Alan Parsons. Mari's narration opens a mesmerizing window onto Pink Floyd's most intense periods of creativity, its tawdry secrets, and its hidden inspirations, creating a rich tapestry that tells one of the most inventive stories in recent fiction.

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