Voices from the Plains

by Gianni Celati

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The narrator of these fictional tales has set off on a walk along the valley of the River Po. The stories of the people he meets are presented in a series of episodes and anecdotes, throughout which the landscape of the Po becomes the unifying focus of attention.

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Provenendo dalla lettura del successivo Verso la foce, ho amato l'unico racconto che ne anticipa temi e tono mentre per il resto mi sono un po' perso fra questa miriade di piccoli racconti dal tono surreale e insieme amaro. Forse questi sono i "sillabari" di Celati, ma personalmente resto un po' perplesso.
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By this time he was a man of some maturity, and a man who, that day, had combed his hair, shaved, put on a nice red tie, and come to a realization of what life is: a web of ceremonial relationships which hold together something that has no substance.
Novellerne har form at mundtlige fortællinger og skrøner - mange starter med "Der var en student fra Parma" eller lignende - og er angiveligt indsamlet under forfatterens rejser på Po-sletten. Historierne er underfundige og korte, men tonen er afgjort melankolsk. De munder oftere ud i opgivenhed, overfladiskhed og tab af mening end i identitet og mening.

Bogen opfattes som et hovedværk i italiensk litteratur, men jeg forstår ikke helt fascinationen. Formen og ideen er spændende, men historierne fangede mig ikke rigtigt.
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Dijk, Tineke van (Translator)
Schneider, Marianne (Translator)

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Canonical title
Voices from the Plains
Original title
Narratori delle pianure
Original publication date
1985 (Italiaans) (Italiaans); 1988 (Nederlands) (Nederlands)
Important places*
Italië
Original language*
Italiaans
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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
853.914Literature & rhetoricItalian, Romanian & related literaturesItalian fiction1900-20th Century1945-1999
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PQ4863 .E36 .N3Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesItalian literatureIndividual authors, 1961-2000
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10 — Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
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Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
14
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1