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La Yoshimoto-sensei degli anni 90 Tradotta da Amitrano Ritorno a casa
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Lizard
Banana Yoshimoto
In these six stories, the author of Goodbye Tsugumi and N.P. explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. The stories are a blend of traditional Japanese and contemporary popular culture.
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Lizard
Banana Yoshimoto
In these six stories, the author of Goodbye Tsugumi and N.P. explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. The stories are a blend of traditional Japanese and contemporary popular culture.
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Quanto mi piacciono i capitoli con i pov diversiiiiii
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Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
Jeff VanderMeer
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it—the Southern Reach—has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.
Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X—what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X—and who may have been corrupted by it?
In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.
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Proprio quello di cui avevo bisogno!!! Nero Edizioni vi amo
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Exit reality: Vaporwave, backrooms, weirdcore e altri paesaggi oltre la soglia
Valentina Tanni
«Internet è un'entità aliena», annunciava David Bowie nel 1999: oggi la profezia si è avverata, e i nostri strumenti digitali sono diventati portali magici dalle proprietà misteriose, finestre che affacciano su una dimensione al limite tra sogno e realtà. Oltre lo specchio degli schermi che teniamo comodamente in tasca, abbiamo scoperto una regione infestata da presenze strane – a volte minacciose, a volte surreali, a volte affascinanti, altre volte insensate. Sono le stesse presenze che, negli ultimi quindici anni, hanno plasmato le cosiddette «estetiche di internet», quell'insieme di sottoculture, narrazioni popolari e linguaggi visivi e sonori grazie ai quali l'entità aliena si è finalmente dichiarata al genere umano. La rete si rivela allora per quello che davvero è: una soglia tanto fisica quanto mentale in cui accadono cose bizzarre, il tempo viene deformato, e noi ci ritroviamo ad abitare una dimensione intermedia, un territorio che non è «né di qua né di là». Exit reality è il primo tentativo di mappare un mondo che, intriso di spiazzanti qualità allucinatorie, ci appare come un pianeta parallelo emerso dalle galassie del codice-spazio.
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Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
Jeff VanderMeer
It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it—the Southern Reach—has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.
Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X—what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X—and who may have been corrupted by it?
In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.
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Ho avuto più difficoltà. Questa seconda parte è fatta di immagini forti ma slegate tra loro, o così mi è sembrato. La caratterizzazione di Control è davvero davvero importante però
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Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Jeff VanderMeer
The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy
After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.
John Rodríguez (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve.
In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.
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Exit reality: Vaporwave, backrooms, weirdcore e altri paesaggi oltre la soglia
Valentina Tanni
«Internet è un'entità aliena», annunciava David Bowie nel 1999: oggi la profezia si è avverata, e i nostri strumenti digitali sono diventati portali magici dalle proprietà misteriose, finestre che affacciano su una dimensione al limite tra sogno e realtà. Oltre lo specchio degli schermi che teniamo comodamente in tasca, abbiamo scoperto una regione infestata da presenze strane – a volte minacciose, a volte surreali, a volte affascinanti, altre volte insensate. Sono le stesse presenze che, negli ultimi quindici anni, hanno plasmato le cosiddette «estetiche di internet», quell'insieme di sottoculture, narrazioni popolari e linguaggi visivi e sonori grazie ai quali l'entità aliena si è finalmente dichiarata al genere umano. La rete si rivela allora per quello che davvero è: una soglia tanto fisica quanto mentale in cui accadono cose bizzarre, il tempo viene deformato, e noi ci ritroviamo ad abitare una dimensione intermedia, un territorio che non è «né di qua né di là». Exit reality è il primo tentativo di mappare un mondo che, intriso di spiazzanti qualità allucinatorie, ci appare come un pianeta parallelo emerso dalle galassie del codice-spazio.
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I libri di Clarice Lispector non sono mai facili. Qualcosa in me crolla sempre in corso di lettura ma con la distruzione arriva sempre anche il sollievo, l'abbandono. Li scelgo quando sento di doverlo fare.
Clarice e la sua Virginia sono state presenti in un periodo particolare della mia vita. Un periodo durante il quale ho provato emozioni che pensavo di aver dismesso dalla mia persona e che con una rapidità aliena hanno avuto una fine, proprio quando stavano per essere sfiorate dalle mie dita.
Anche io sono stata Virginia ed Esmeralda, ho guardato ammirato disprezzato Vicente e Daniel, ho partecipato al flusso che le sapienti e poetiche mani dell'autrice hanno evocato da un mondo non propriamente nostro.
Anche io ho voglia di scappare ogni giorno, di morire, di crogiolarmi nel mio stato di corpo abbozzato e anima impermanente, di gioire al buio.
Anche io ritornerò sempre e me ne andrò sempre, in un ciclo infinito perpetuo mio
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The Chandelier
Clarice Lispector
Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier with The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for its potent idiosyncratic genius, The Chandelier in many ways has pride of place. “It stands out,” her biographer Benjamin Moser noted, “in a strange and difficult body of work, as perhaps her strangest and most difficult book.” Of glacial intensity, consisting almost entirely of interior monologues—interrupted by odd and jarring fragments of dialogue and action—the novel moves in slow waves that crest in moments of revelation. As Virginia seeks freedom via creation, the drama of her isolated life is almost entirely internal: from childhood, she sculpts clay figurines with “the best clay one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold. She got a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world. How, how to explain the miracle ...” While on one level simply the story of a woman’s life, The Chandelier’s real drama lies in Lispector’s attempt “to find the nucleus made of a single instant ... the tenuous triumph and the defeat, perhaps nothing more than breathing.” The Chandelier pushes Lispector’s lifelong quest for that nucleus into deeper territories than any of her other amazing works.
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Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
Jeff VanderMeer
The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy
After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray.
John Rodríguez (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve.
In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.
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Me lo sarei bevuto in un giorno se la vita non si fosse messa di mezzo.
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Jeff VanderMeer
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.
The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Jeff VanderMeer
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.
The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
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Slayyyyyyy zio Samuellllllllll Flashback brutti ma interessanti di esame di semiotica ma personaggi carini e storia particolare la sf mi galvanizzaaaaa
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Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is determined to understand the language and stop the alien threat. (Paul Goat Allen)
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Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany
Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is determined to understand the language and stop the alien threat. (Paul Goat Allen)
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