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Grove: A Field Novel (2018)

by Esther Kinsky

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An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on walks and outings, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. Seeing, describing, naming the world around her is her way of redefining her place within it. In Kinsky's Grove, winner of the 2018 Leipzig Book Prize, grief must bear the weight of the world and full of grief the narrator becomes one with the brittle manifestations of the Italian winter.… (more)
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La narradora de Arboleda viaja sola a Italia para una estancia que había planeado junto a su compañero, M., recién fallecido. Allí, fiel a sus paseos de flâneuse que se demora en parajes apartados, humildes cementerios y arcenes de carreteras secundarias, pero siempre atenta a los detalles luminosos, su mirada sella un nuevo pacto con la vida: «Había aprendido a marcharme, a borrar huellas, a guardar lo acumulado y recolectado». Así pues, Arboleda es un libro de duelo, pero éste se trasciende mediante un estilo sagaz, culto y profundamente empático. Ceñido a tres lugares de Italia, tres paisajes, este hermoso tríptico posee la distancia de una moderna geórgica: el dolor es aquello que sucede mientras los hombres viven y trabajan, nuevas aves surcan el cielo y la naturaleza muda. Quizá éste sea el destino de la gran literatura: preservar la memoria sin por ello dejar de «regresar a la ciudad de los vivos».
Comparada con Sebald y Thoreau, Esther Kinsky es grande por sus propias cualidades, por una escritura arrebatadora desde la primera frase. Un bellísimo viaje de invierno, tan emocionante como reparador. ( )
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An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on walks and outings, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. Seeing, describing, naming the world around her is her way of redefining her place within it. In Kinsky's Grove, winner of the 2018 Leipzig Book Prize, grief must bear the weight of the world and full of grief the narrator becomes one with the brittle manifestations of the Italian winter.

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