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毓卮賯 噩丕蹖卮 鬲賳诏 丕爻鬲
Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories鈥搒eventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway.
Here are such favorites as 鈥淩oyal Beatings鈥� in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; 鈥淔riend of My Youth鈥� in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and 鈥淭he Albanian Virgin," a romantic tale of capture and escape in Central Europe that may or may not be true, told by an elderly married woman to her younger friend who is on a desperate adventure of her own..
Munro鈥檚 incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn鈥檛 know change her life forever, Munro鈥檚 unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.
Carried Away, Alice Munro's Best and My Best Stories contain the same 17 works: Royal beatings -- The beggar maid -- The turkey season -- The moons of Jupiter -- The progress of love -- Miles City, Montana -- Friend of my youth -- Meneseteung -- Differently -- Carried away -- The Albanian virgin -- A wilderness station -- Vandals -- Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage -- Save the reaper -- Runaway -- The bear came over the mountain.
Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living writers, a reputation that has been growing for years. The stories brought together here span a quarter century, drawn from some of her earliest books, The Beggar Maid and The Moons of Jupiter, through her recent best-selling collection, Runaway.
Here are such favorites as 鈥淩oyal Beatings鈥� in which a young girl, her father, and stepmother release the tension of their circumstances in a ritual of punishment and reconciliation; 鈥淔riend of My Youth鈥� in which a woman comes to understand that her difficult mother is not so very different from herself; and 鈥淭he Albanian Virgin," a romantic tale of capture and escape in Central Europe that may or may not be true, told by an elderly married woman to her younger friend who is on a desperate adventure of her own..
Munro鈥檚 incomparable empathy for her characters, the depth of her understanding of human nature, and the grace and surprise of her narrative add up to a richly layered and capacious fiction. Like the World War I soldier in the title story, whose letters from the front to a small-town librarian he doesn鈥檛 know change her life forever, Munro鈥檚 unassuming characters insinuate themselves in our hearts and take permanent hold.
Carried Away, Alice Munro's Best and My Best Stories contain the same 17 works: Royal beatings -- The beggar maid -- The turkey season -- The moons of Jupiter -- The progress of love -- Miles City, Montana -- Friend of my youth -- Meneseteung -- Differently -- Carried away -- The Albanian virgin -- A wilderness station -- Vandals -- Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage -- Save the reaper -- Runaway -- The bear came over the mountain.
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First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Alice Munro
225听books6,498听followersCollections of short stories of noted Canadian writer Alice Munro of life in rural Ontario include
Dance of the Happy Shades
(1968) and
Moons of Jupiter
(1982); for these and vivid novels, she won the Nobel Prize of 2013 for literature.
People widely consider her premier fiction of the world. Munro thrice received governor general's award. She focuses on human relationships through the lens of daily life. People thus refer to this "the Canadian Chekhov."
(Arabic: 兀賱賷爻 賲賵賳乇賵)
(Persian: 丌賱蹖爻 賲丕賳乇賵)
(Russian Cyrillic: 协谢懈褋 袦邪薪褉芯)
(Ukrainian Cyrillic: 袝谢褨褋 袦邪薪褉芯)
(Bulgarian Cyrillic: 袗谢懈褋 袦褗薪褉芯)
(Slovak: Alice Munroov谩)
(Serbian: Alis Manro)
People widely consider her premier fiction of the world. Munro thrice received governor general's award. She focuses on human relationships through the lens of daily life. People thus refer to this "the Canadian Chekhov."
(Arabic: 兀賱賷爻 賲賵賳乇賵)
(Persian: 丌賱蹖爻 賲丕賳乇賵)
(Russian Cyrillic: 协谢懈褋 袦邪薪褉芯)
(Ukrainian Cyrillic: 袝谢褨褋 袦邪薪褉芯)
(Bulgarian Cyrillic: 袗谢懈褋 袦褗薪褉芯)
(Slovak: Alice Munroov谩)
(Serbian: Alis Manro)
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December 19, 2021
My Best Stories = Carried Away: A Selection of Stories = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories, Alice Munro
The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed.
Royal Beatings shows us right away how far we are from the romantic world of happy endings.
The Albanian Virgin smashes the idea that all of her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario's "Alice Munro Country."
A Wilderness Station breaks short story rules by transporting us back to the 1830's and then jumping forward more than a hundred years.
And the final story, The Bear Came Over the Mountain, which was adapted into the film Away from Her, leads us far beyond the turkey-plucking world of young girls into unflinching old age.
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 09/10/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 27/09/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed.
Royal Beatings shows us right away how far we are from the romantic world of happy endings.
The Albanian Virgin smashes the idea that all of her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario's "Alice Munro Country."
A Wilderness Station breaks short story rules by transporting us back to the 1830's and then jumping forward more than a hundred years.
And the final story, The Bear Came Over the Mountain, which was adapted into the film Away from Her, leads us far beyond the turkey-plucking world of young girls into unflinching old age.
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 09/10/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 27/09/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
June 14, 2015
A superb introduction to one of the best writers in the English language. (If you can get a copy of 1996's Selected Stories you'll be able to sample even more of her early work - since this collection starts with her fourth book.)
I've read some of these multiple times, studied them, quoted them, laughed over them and recognized myself and people I know in them.
What she does with the short story form is astonishing. And while she's known for her stories set in a particular area of Southwestern Ontario that's as distinct as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, there are also stories set in Albania, Vancouver, Toronto, Nova Scotia and (very memorably) Miles City, Montana.
I really should read this all the way through again and write a proper review.
I've read some of these multiple times, studied them, quoted them, laughed over them and recognized myself and people I know in them.
What she does with the short story form is astonishing. And while she's known for her stories set in a particular area of Southwestern Ontario that's as distinct as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, there are also stories set in Albania, Vancouver, Toronto, Nova Scotia and (very memorably) Miles City, Montana.
I really should read this all the way through again and write a proper review.
November 1, 2017
WWI. A young librarian receives a letter from a soldier who used to come to the Library to read, unbeknown to her. He declares his love for her and she falls in love with a stranger. When the war is over and the man returns home, the librarian finds out that he was previously engaged to another woman. She never sees his face or talks to him, but his words leave track on her heart forever.
Years pass. A tragic accident in the piano factory where the soldier used to work. The widowed owner of the business returns some of his books to the Library and he falls in love with the Librarian.
Years pass. WWII is over. The woman, a widow now, has an unexpected meeting with the past where everything seems possible, but it's finally only an illusion, like love, desire and the ghost of youth.
Years pass. A tragic accident in the piano factory where the soldier used to work. The widowed owner of the business returns some of his books to the Library and he falls in love with the Librarian.
Years pass. WWII is over. The woman, a widow now, has an unexpected meeting with the past where everything seems possible, but it's finally only an illusion, like love, desire and the ghost of youth.
April 23, 2019
Come primo approccio ad Alice Munro scelgo la via del best of e dopo 17 racconti di fila - parecchio lunghi - la sensazione 猫 quella di risalire al pelo dell鈥檃cqua dopo un鈥檃pnea infinita.
A volerla mettere sul piano musicale, Munro intende il racconto come i gruppi prog rock degli anni Settanta intendevano la canzone. Quindi la sensazione di raggiungere il livello di saturazione 猫 dietro l鈥檃ngolo.
Resta il fatto che, in generale, sono quasi tutti davvero belli.
Disseminati ci sono piani temporali diversi, richiami, flashback, racconti nel racconto e strutture articolate da romanzo condensato. Alcuni racconti avrebbero probabilmente una resa migliore se un po鈥� alleggeriti.
Le donne di cui parla - le vere protagoniste - pi霉 che sole mi sono sembrate autonome, con la necessit脿 e il desiderio di essere e sentirsi libere. Sono donne che arrivano all鈥檃utonomia rinunciando sia alla famiglia di origine sia ai propri uomini, spesso con un鈥檌nfanzia rurale e colma di difficolt脿 alle spalle.
Munro mescola amori, tradimenti, rancori, rapporti complicati tra genitori e figli, tentativi di capire e capirsi.
La scrittura ha una lucidit脿 invidiabile. Lo stile 猫 accessibile e piano, funzionale. Munro ha la capacit脿 di descrivere in modo semplice e analitico allo stesso tempo. E, a suo modo, ha gi脿 la caratura del classico.
Ambienti: tra Vancouver, l鈥橭ntario e il nord degli Stati Uniti.
Magari tra un po鈥�, ma di sicuro legger貌 altro di suo. [78/100]
Botte da re @@@
La Mendicante @@@
La stagione dei tacchini @@
Le lune di Giove @@@@
Il percorso dell鈥檃more @@@@
Miles City, Montana @@@@
Amica della mia giovent煤 @@@@
Meneseteung @@@
Diversamente @@@
Lasciarsi andare @@@
La vergine albanese @@@@@
Un posto selvaggio @@@
Vandali @@@@
Nemico, amico, amante... @@@@
Salvate il mietitore @@@
In fuga @@@@
The Bear Came Over the Mountain @@@@
鈥� Una volta mia madre ha bruciato tremila dollari, 鈥� dissi. 鈥� Tremila dollari, dentro quella stufa.
Emise un altro fischio, di tonalit脿 diversa. 鈥� In che senso? Ci ha buttato un assegno?
鈥� No, no. In contanti. Lo ha fatto di proposito. 脠 andata in banca e se li 猫 fatti mettere tutti in una scatola da scarpe. Li ha portati a casa e li ha messi nella stufa. Pochi per volta, per non fare la fiamma troppo alta. Mio padre 猫 rimasto l铆 a guardarla.
鈥� Ma si pu貌 sapere cosa dici? 鈥� chiese Bob Marks. 鈥� Pensavo che foste poverissimi.
鈥� Infatti. Poverissimi.
鈥� E allora come faceva ad avere tremila dollari? Sarebbe come dire trentamila oggi. Se basta. Anche pi煤 di trentamila oggi.
鈥� Era la sua eredit脿, 鈥� dissi. 鈥� Glieli aveva lasciati suo padre. Suo padre mor铆 a Seattle e le lasci貌 tremila dollari, e lei li bruci貌 perch茅 lo odiava. Non li voleva, i suoi soldi. Lo odiava.
鈥� Una bella dose di odio, 鈥� disse Bob Marks.
鈥� Non 猫 questo il punto. N茅 l鈥檕dio di lei, n茅 stabilire se lui fosse abbastanza odioso da meritarselo. 脠 poco probabile che lo fosse. Non 猫 questo il punto.
鈥� I soldi s铆, per貌, 鈥� disse lui. 鈥� I soldi sono sempre il punto.
鈥� No. Il punto 猫 che mio padre glielo lasci貌 fare. Il punto per me, almeno. Mio padre rest貌 l铆 a guardare senza protestare mai. E se qualcuno avesse cercato di fermarla, lui l鈥檃vrebbe difesa. Io lo considero un gesto d鈥檃more.
A volerla mettere sul piano musicale, Munro intende il racconto come i gruppi prog rock degli anni Settanta intendevano la canzone. Quindi la sensazione di raggiungere il livello di saturazione 猫 dietro l鈥檃ngolo.
Resta il fatto che, in generale, sono quasi tutti davvero belli.
Disseminati ci sono piani temporali diversi, richiami, flashback, racconti nel racconto e strutture articolate da romanzo condensato. Alcuni racconti avrebbero probabilmente una resa migliore se un po鈥� alleggeriti.
Le donne di cui parla - le vere protagoniste - pi霉 che sole mi sono sembrate autonome, con la necessit脿 e il desiderio di essere e sentirsi libere. Sono donne che arrivano all鈥檃utonomia rinunciando sia alla famiglia di origine sia ai propri uomini, spesso con un鈥檌nfanzia rurale e colma di difficolt脿 alle spalle.
Munro mescola amori, tradimenti, rancori, rapporti complicati tra genitori e figli, tentativi di capire e capirsi.
La scrittura ha una lucidit脿 invidiabile. Lo stile 猫 accessibile e piano, funzionale. Munro ha la capacit脿 di descrivere in modo semplice e analitico allo stesso tempo. E, a suo modo, ha gi脿 la caratura del classico.
Ambienti: tra Vancouver, l鈥橭ntario e il nord degli Stati Uniti.
Magari tra un po鈥�, ma di sicuro legger貌 altro di suo. [78/100]
Botte da re @@@
La Mendicante @@@
La stagione dei tacchini @@
Le lune di Giove @@@@
Il percorso dell鈥檃more @@@@
Miles City, Montana @@@@
Amica della mia giovent煤 @@@@
Meneseteung @@@
Diversamente @@@
Lasciarsi andare @@@
La vergine albanese @@@@@
Un posto selvaggio @@@
Vandali @@@@
Nemico, amico, amante... @@@@
Salvate il mietitore @@@
In fuga @@@@
The Bear Came Over the Mountain @@@@
鈥� Una volta mia madre ha bruciato tremila dollari, 鈥� dissi. 鈥� Tremila dollari, dentro quella stufa.
Emise un altro fischio, di tonalit脿 diversa. 鈥� In che senso? Ci ha buttato un assegno?
鈥� No, no. In contanti. Lo ha fatto di proposito. 脠 andata in banca e se li 猫 fatti mettere tutti in una scatola da scarpe. Li ha portati a casa e li ha messi nella stufa. Pochi per volta, per non fare la fiamma troppo alta. Mio padre 猫 rimasto l铆 a guardarla.
鈥� Ma si pu貌 sapere cosa dici? 鈥� chiese Bob Marks. 鈥� Pensavo che foste poverissimi.
鈥� Infatti. Poverissimi.
鈥� E allora come faceva ad avere tremila dollari? Sarebbe come dire trentamila oggi. Se basta. Anche pi煤 di trentamila oggi.
鈥� Era la sua eredit脿, 鈥� dissi. 鈥� Glieli aveva lasciati suo padre. Suo padre mor铆 a Seattle e le lasci貌 tremila dollari, e lei li bruci貌 perch茅 lo odiava. Non li voleva, i suoi soldi. Lo odiava.
鈥� Una bella dose di odio, 鈥� disse Bob Marks.
鈥� Non 猫 questo il punto. N茅 l鈥檕dio di lei, n茅 stabilire se lui fosse abbastanza odioso da meritarselo. 脠 poco probabile che lo fosse. Non 猫 questo il punto.
鈥� I soldi s铆, per貌, 鈥� disse lui. 鈥� I soldi sono sempre il punto.
鈥� No. Il punto 猫 che mio padre glielo lasci貌 fare. Il punto per me, almeno. Mio padre rest貌 l铆 a guardare senza protestare mai. E se qualcuno avesse cercato di fermarla, lui l鈥檃vrebbe difesa. Io lo considero un gesto d鈥檃more.
December 11, 2017
I've read most of from the collections they originally appeared in, but this was a welcome re-acquaintance; a reunion with the nearly forgotten. Here's a longish passage from "Miles City, Montana" that demonstrates why Alice Munro is the master, my guru:
Most of the stories in this fine collection have that effect on me: the safe shock; the imaginings of different outcomes, a different life. Munro knows people, knows women, and although I am no more likely to run off to Victoria to open a book store than I am to fall in with a failed hotelier or lonesome taxidermist, the women in these stories might as well be me, so honestly are they portrayed.
I have no desire to tear apart these stories to find their working parts and meshing gears but will, rather, enjoy luxuriating in their after effects; the safe shocks which are anything but trashy.
Disappeared.
But she swam. She held her breath and came up swimming.
What a chain of lucky links.
That was all we spoke about - luck. But I was compelled to picture the opposite. At this moment, we could have been filling out forms. Meg removed from us, Meg's body being prepared for shipment. To Vancouver - where we had never noticed such a thing as a graveyard - or to Ontario? The scribbled drawings she had made this morning would still be in the back seat of the car. How could this be borne all at once, how did people bear it? The plump, sweet shoulders and hands and feet, the fine brown hair, the rather satisfied, secretive expression - all exactly the same as when she had been alive. The most ordinary tragedy. A child drowned in a swimming pool at noon on a sunny day. Things tidied up quickly. The pool opens as usual at two o'clock. The lifeguard is a bit shaken up and gets the afternoon off. She drives away with her boyfriend in the Roto-Rooter truck. The body sealed away in some kind of shipping coffin. Sedatives, phone calls, arrangements. Such a sudden vacancy, a blind sinking and shifting. Waking up groggy from the pills, thinking for a moment it wasn't true. Thinking if only we hadn't stopped, if only we hadn't taken this route, if only they hadn't let us use the pool. Probably no one would ever have known about the comb.
There's something trashy about this kind of imagining, isn't there? Something shameful. Laying your finger on the wire to get the safe shock, feeling a bit of what it's like, then pulling back.
Most of the stories in this fine collection have that effect on me: the safe shock; the imaginings of different outcomes, a different life. Munro knows people, knows women, and although I am no more likely to run off to Victoria to open a book store than I am to fall in with a failed hotelier or lonesome taxidermist, the women in these stories might as well be me, so honestly are they portrayed.
I have no desire to tear apart these stories to find their working parts and meshing gears but will, rather, enjoy luxuriating in their after effects; the safe shocks which are anything but trashy.
December 11, 2017
I finally read Munro consumed by guilt at not having read the only Canadian author to ever win a Nobel Prize for literature. This is a collection of short stories covering her whole career. I was a bit leery of Munro because I thought that it would be all icy glances over the dishes. The stories are actually pretty much that kind of thing, but they are quite good.
She writes well, although not really well. The third person pieces are more effective because she always writes in the same voice and that makes it seem that all the first person pieces are about the same characters. She writes very much about middle class problems in small towns. I found the whole to be less than the sum of its parts. While many of the stories are outstanding, she can get a bit samey and there is not really as much variety as there might be. I think she is good at short stories, but she would not make my top ten for short story writers. A lot of her writing is daring in a safe kind of way. For those who are Canadian, it is very much CBC Radio 1 writing and would appeal to that kind of crowd.
She's good, but not really good and I am unlikely to read anymore. She's slightly overrated in the end.
She writes well, although not really well. The third person pieces are more effective because she always writes in the same voice and that makes it seem that all the first person pieces are about the same characters. She writes very much about middle class problems in small towns. I found the whole to be less than the sum of its parts. While many of the stories are outstanding, she can get a bit samey and there is not really as much variety as there might be. I think she is good at short stories, but she would not make my top ten for short story writers. A lot of her writing is daring in a safe kind of way. For those who are Canadian, it is very much CBC Radio 1 writing and would appeal to that kind of crowd.
She's good, but not really good and I am unlikely to read anymore. She's slightly overrated in the end.
May 23, 2012
The copy before me is from the library, such a pristine copy too, sad, since anything by Munro from any library should be tattered and dog-eared from the wear and tear of readers...
But maybe the past patrons did the same thing I plan to do: I read five stories out of this collection and I decided, firmly and with conviction, to set this copy aside and purchase my own copy. This is a collection of stories to be savored for a lifetime.
I could not believe the quality of the writing.
The title story was jawdroppingly amazing. The prose was flawless and beautifully dense, and the characters were more alive than many characters inhabiting full-fledged novels. Without revealing the story, I'll just say that I was amazed by the somewhat hidden allegory Munro makes to the act of reading itself, and to the allegory on realities of the mind versus true reality. But even if those two points are missed, the story is still just as fantastic. Hell, it even works as kind of a sad romance if that's what you're looking for... but it's way more meatier than that.
Okay, technically, I haven't read the book in it's entirety yet, but I assure I will soon...
Highly Recommended, if just for the the title story...
But maybe the past patrons did the same thing I plan to do: I read five stories out of this collection and I decided, firmly and with conviction, to set this copy aside and purchase my own copy. This is a collection of stories to be savored for a lifetime.
I could not believe the quality of the writing.
The title story was jawdroppingly amazing. The prose was flawless and beautifully dense, and the characters were more alive than many characters inhabiting full-fledged novels. Without revealing the story, I'll just say that I was amazed by the somewhat hidden allegory Munro makes to the act of reading itself, and to the allegory on realities of the mind versus true reality. But even if those two points are missed, the story is still just as fantastic. Hell, it even works as kind of a sad romance if that's what you're looking for... but it's way more meatier than that.
Okay, technically, I haven't read the book in it's entirety yet, but I assure I will soon...
Highly Recommended, if just for the the title story...
December 11, 2017
I admit to jumping on the bandwagon with this one. Munro won the Nobel prize and I - being Canadian, a fellow alumna of Western and a lover of literature - was embarrassed to say that I'd never read anything by her. At least that I could recall.
I really enjoyed the first couple of stories in this collection, which followed the same characters. They were relatable, they lived in southwestern Ontario and inhabited the world of higher education. I liked that I could picture the setting, and it brought the characters to life for me. But the more I read, the more I began to get bored, and had to set the book down for long periods of time. I suppose short stories are meant to be enjoyed in small spurts, maybe reading this like a novel was not how it was intended to be consumed. In any case, reading several stories back-to-back made me realise that the majority of the main characters in these stories are very similar: female, middle-aged (or older) and unhappy in some way. The stories became depressing, and kind of predictable. Aren't there any happy middle-aged women who don't cheat on their husbands, or haven't been cheated on by their husbands, living in southwestern Ontario?
I'm happy for Munro and her international prize. Maybe I'm missing something. It must be me.
I really enjoyed the first couple of stories in this collection, which followed the same characters. They were relatable, they lived in southwestern Ontario and inhabited the world of higher education. I liked that I could picture the setting, and it brought the characters to life for me. But the more I read, the more I began to get bored, and had to set the book down for long periods of time. I suppose short stories are meant to be enjoyed in small spurts, maybe reading this like a novel was not how it was intended to be consumed. In any case, reading several stories back-to-back made me realise that the majority of the main characters in these stories are very similar: female, middle-aged (or older) and unhappy in some way. The stories became depressing, and kind of predictable. Aren't there any happy middle-aged women who don't cheat on their husbands, or haven't been cheated on by their husbands, living in southwestern Ontario?
I'm happy for Munro and her international prize. Maybe I'm missing something. It must be me.
December 11, 2017
I have to admit to ignorance - I had not heard of Alice Munro until she was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. But having heard of her, I am glad I did as these are excellent short stories. It's difficult to decide whether to judge a book like this according to the best stories or the average. The average standard is very high, but inconsistent. Not everything is brilliant, although all are good. And amongst the stories are some truly 5 start gems such as The Bear Came Over the Mountain. You never feel as if the short story is an unsatisfying or truncated sort of book - these are all fully formed works of writing.
I do not advise sitting down and reading this book end-to-end, as although all the stories are unique there is a commonality of tone and to a lesser extent theme. This is more a dip in and savour each story over time sort of book.
I do not advise sitting down and reading this book end-to-end, as although all the stories are unique there is a commonality of tone and to a lesser extent theme. This is more a dip in and savour each story over time sort of book.
February 21, 2015
Se oggi riesco ad apprezzare maggiormente il genere racconto 猫 grazie soprattutto alla scrittura elegante e raffinata della Munro.
Questa raccolta che raccoglie 17 racconti scelti personalmente dall'autrice sono un excursus del meglio della sua produzione. Le tematiche riscontrate sono quelle che i lettori della Munro hanno imparato con il tempo ad apprezzare. Le tematiche spaziano dall'essere se stessi alla sessualit脿 sino alla religione. Le donne della Munro sono donne che cercano il loro equilibrio, la loro autenticit脿, anche nella disonest脿, come ammette Georgia in "Diversamente" ("Autentico, ma disonesto").
Lasciatevi andare anche voi, spalancate cuore, mente e addentratevi in queste storie in cui la Munro ci legge dentro.
Questa raccolta che raccoglie 17 racconti scelti personalmente dall'autrice sono un excursus del meglio della sua produzione. Le tematiche riscontrate sono quelle che i lettori della Munro hanno imparato con il tempo ad apprezzare. Le tematiche spaziano dall'essere se stessi alla sessualit脿 sino alla religione. Le donne della Munro sono donne che cercano il loro equilibrio, la loro autenticit脿, anche nella disonest脿, come ammette Georgia in "Diversamente" ("Autentico, ma disonesto").
Lasciatevi andare anche voi, spalancate cuore, mente e addentratevi in queste storie in cui la Munro ci legge dentro.
January 14, 2016
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴丕蹖 夭蹖亘丕蹖蹖 亘賵丿賵賳讴鬲賴 亘爻蹖丕乇噩丕賱亘 丕蹖賳 讴賴 賲丨賵乇丕氐賱蹖 賵爻亘讴 賳賵卮鬲丕乇蹖 亘乇倬丕蹖賴 賳丕賲賴 賵賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇丕蹖賲 亘爻蹖丕乇鬲丕夭诏蹖 丿丕卮鬲.賯胤毓丕亘賯蹖賴 丌孬丕乇卮 乇丕賴賲 禺賵丕賴賲 禺賵丕賳丿
Shelved as 'did-not-finish'
June 23, 2024I have a genealogy hobby, and recently I showed my research to some older relatives, who looked over my lists of names and dates and tried their best to fill in the (often sordid) human details my sources couldn鈥檛 provide. Returning to this Munro collection after that, I was struck by how similar the two experiences felt: Munro鈥檚 stories, with their retrospective slant, recurring settings, tangled family relationships, meandering plots, and deeply ambivalent takeaways are basically the literary equivalent of sitting down and listening to an older relative free-associate about family history. Even Munro鈥檚 periodic flashes of brutality鈥攁 gory workplace accident in 鈥淐arried Away,鈥� loving descriptions of poultry butchering in 鈥淭he Turkey Season,鈥� the eponymous beating of 鈥淩oyal Beatings鈥濃€攁re familiar to me from family members who have never let their Christian virtue or middle-class propriety keep them from relishing a bloody detail. And, as in all families, nearly every Munro story leaves the reader with the abiding feeling that the things you really want to know will never be told at all.
The downside, for me at least, is that as much as Munro鈥檚 brilliant prose and human insight elevate her stories beyond simple family gossip, there is still something a little鈥� soporific about them when taken one after the other. There are only so many times I can return to the claustrophobic interior dramas of these mid-century rural Ontarians before I start to yearn for some excitement, some conclusiveness, some feeling of winding up in a different place from where I began鈥攐r at the very least a sense that my author recognizes these might be things some of her readers desire on occasion. I don鈥檛 consider myself an especially plot-focused reader, but when the climactic note of two consecutive stories consists of a character making an unexpected facial expression, I admit my tolerance for plotlessness is strained. I didn鈥檛 finish this collection; I made it through the first 4 陆 stories, after having read the title piece last fall鈥攊n all, maybe 170 pages or so. It would have become far too laborious for me, and in turn probably unfair to Munro, to have plowed through all 560 pages just for completion鈥檚 sake. In the future I鈥檇 rather dip into her work intermittently, one story at a time, with long rests between.
A writing professor whom I greatly admire revealed once that, as much as she loves Munro now, she couldn鈥檛 stand her work when she was younger. I certainly wouldn鈥檛 go so far as to say I can鈥檛 stand Munro, but I do wonder if she鈥檚 an author who will grow on me with age, as I find myself contemplating long-buried histories and trying to trace the ripples of the minor-seeming actions of my own past.
The downside, for me at least, is that as much as Munro鈥檚 brilliant prose and human insight elevate her stories beyond simple family gossip, there is still something a little鈥� soporific about them when taken one after the other. There are only so many times I can return to the claustrophobic interior dramas of these mid-century rural Ontarians before I start to yearn for some excitement, some conclusiveness, some feeling of winding up in a different place from where I began鈥攐r at the very least a sense that my author recognizes these might be things some of her readers desire on occasion. I don鈥檛 consider myself an especially plot-focused reader, but when the climactic note of two consecutive stories consists of a character making an unexpected facial expression, I admit my tolerance for plotlessness is strained. I didn鈥檛 finish this collection; I made it through the first 4 陆 stories, after having read the title piece last fall鈥攊n all, maybe 170 pages or so. It would have become far too laborious for me, and in turn probably unfair to Munro, to have plowed through all 560 pages just for completion鈥檚 sake. In the future I鈥檇 rather dip into her work intermittently, one story at a time, with long rests between.
A writing professor whom I greatly admire revealed once that, as much as she loves Munro now, she couldn鈥檛 stand her work when she was younger. I certainly wouldn鈥檛 go so far as to say I can鈥檛 stand Munro, but I do wonder if she鈥檚 an author who will grow on me with age, as I find myself contemplating long-buried histories and trying to trace the ripples of the minor-seeming actions of my own past.
October 28, 2024
禺蹖賱蹖 丨乇賮蹖 亘乇丕蹖 诏賮鬲賳 賳丿丕卮鬲 賵 亘賴 賳馗乇賲 亘蹖卮 丕夭 丨丿 賲毓賲賵賱蹖 亘賵丿
September 26, 2017
4.5 stars - The writing and characters are superb. Maybe I read too many sci-fi and thrillers but I kept anticipating crazy things were going to happen in some of the stories and they didn't. Great stuff even if you aren't getting a lot of action.
April 16, 2016
讴鬲丕亘 賲噩賲賵毓賴 爻賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 讴賵鬲丕賴 蹖丕 亘賴鬲乇 亘诏賲 賳丕賵賽賱鬲 亘賴 賳丕賲 賴丕蹖
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丿賵乇 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 2
賵 賲賳夭賱诏丕賴蹖 丿乇 亘乇賴賵鬲 3
丕賵賱蹖賳 亘丕乇蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕夭 丌賱蹖爻 賲賵賳乇賵 賲蹖禺賵賳丿賲.. 賲鬲賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴 卮丿賴 亘賵丿 丕賲丕 卮蹖賵賴 蹖 賳诏丕乇卮 讴鬲丕亘 賲賵乇丿 毓賱丕賯賴 賲賳 賳亘賵丿 賵 亘卮丿鬲 丕夭 禺賵丕賳丿賳卮 禺爻鬲賴 卮丿賲...
賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丕賳诏丕乇 丿乇 丨丕賱 丨乇賮 夭丿賳 亘賵丿 賲孬 蹖賴 丌丿賲 賵乇丕噩 讴賴 賴賲蹖賳噩賵乇 丨乇賮 賲蹖夭賳丿 賵 丨乇賮 賲蹖夭賳丿
賲賳賲 禺爻鬲賴 卮丿賲 賵 40 氐賮丨賴 丌禺乇 乇賵 賳禺賵賳丿賲 賵 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 氐賮丨丕鬲 乇賵 乇丿 讴乇丿賲
丕賲丕 鬲賵氐蹖賮 賴丕蹖 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 丕蹖 丿丕卮鬲 貙 噩賵乇蹖 讴賴 丕賳诏丕乇 亘賴 鬲賲丕卮丕蹖 蹖讴 賮蹖賱賲 賳卮爻鬲賴 丕蹖丿
賲賵囟賵毓丕鬲 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖 丌賱蹖爻 賲賵賳乇賵 丕睾賱亘 亘賴 賲爻丕卅賱蹖 倬蹖乇丕賲賵賳 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 賵 蹖丕 亘賱賵睾 賵 賲卮讴賱锟斤拷鬲 夭賳丕賳賴
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丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲亘 賴賲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕賵賱 倬蹖乇丕賲賵賳 亘賱賵睾 賵 丕夭丿賵丕噩 亘賵丿.. 賵 丿蹖丿蹖 讴賴 丕賮乇丕丿 亘賴 夭賳蹖 賲爻賳 丿丕乇賳丿 賵 蹖丕 丕蹖賳 賳丕禺乇丿蹖 賵 爻丕丿诏蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 蹖賵賴丕賳丕
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿賵賲 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 卮禺氐蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 毓賱丕賯賴 賲賳丿 讴爻蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 亘賴 噩賳诏 乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿 賵 賳丕賲賴 賲蹖賳賵卮鬲..丕賲丕 賴賳诏丕賲 亘乇诏卮鬲 丕夭 噩賳诏貙 夭賳 賲鬲賵噩賴 卮丿 讴賴 丌賳 賲乇丿 賳丕賲夭丿蹖 丿丕卮鬲賴 賵 倬爻 丕夭 亘乇诏卮鬲 亘賴 丕噩亘丕乇 亘丕 丕賵賳 丕夭丿賵丕噩 讴乇丿賴.. 賴乇趩賳丿 讴賴 禺賵丿卮 丕賲蹖丿蹖 亘賴 亘丕夭诏卮鬲 賳丿丕卮鬲賴..讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 亘賲蹖乇丿 丿乇 噩賳诏 賵 賲噩亘賵乇 亘賴 丕夭丿賵丕噩 賳亘丕卮丿
蹖讴亘丕乇 禺賵賳丿賳卮 亘丿 賳蹖爻鬲
賳禺賵賳丿蹖賳 賴賲 趩蹖夭蹖 丕夭 丿爻鬲 賳丿丕丿蹖丿 :)
賳賮乇鬲貙 丿賵爻鬲蹖貙 賲毓丕卮賯賴 賲賴賵乇夭蹖 丕夭丿賵丕噩 1
丿賵乇 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 2
賵 賲賳夭賱诏丕賴蹖 丿乇 亘乇賴賵鬲 3
丕賵賱蹖賳 亘丕乇蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕夭 丌賱蹖爻 賲賵賳乇賵 賲蹖禺賵賳丿賲.. 賲鬲賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 禺賵亘蹖 鬲乇噩賲賴 卮丿賴 亘賵丿 丕賲丕 卮蹖賵賴 蹖 賳诏丕乇卮 讴鬲丕亘 賲賵乇丿 毓賱丕賯賴 賲賳 賳亘賵丿 賵 亘卮丿鬲 丕夭 禺賵丕賳丿賳卮 禺爻鬲賴 卮丿賲...
賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 丕賳诏丕乇 丿乇 丨丕賱 丨乇賮 夭丿賳 亘賵丿 賲孬 蹖賴 丌丿賲 賵乇丕噩 讴賴 賴賲蹖賳噩賵乇 丨乇賮 賲蹖夭賳丿 賵 丨乇賮 賲蹖夭賳丿
賲賳賲 禺爻鬲賴 卮丿賲 賵 40 氐賮丨賴 丌禺乇 乇賵 賳禺賵賳丿賲 賵 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 氐賮丨丕鬲 乇賵 乇丿 讴乇丿賲
丕賲丕 鬲賵氐蹖賮 賴丕蹖 賮賵賯 丕賱毓丕丿賴 丕蹖 丿丕卮鬲 貙 噩賵乇蹖 讴賴 丕賳诏丕乇 亘賴 鬲賲丕卮丕蹖 蹖讴 賮蹖賱賲 賳卮爻鬲賴 丕蹖丿
賲賵囟賵毓丕鬲 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖 丌賱蹖爻 賲賵賳乇賵 丕睾賱亘 亘賴 賲爻丕卅賱蹖 倬蹖乇丕賲賵賳 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 賵 蹖丕 亘賱賵睾 賵 賲卮讴賱锟斤拷鬲 夭賳丕賳賴
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丿乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲亘 賴賲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕賵賱 倬蹖乇丕賲賵賳 亘賱賵睾 賵 丕夭丿賵丕噩 亘賵丿.. 賵 丿蹖丿蹖 讴賴 丕賮乇丕丿 亘賴 夭賳蹖 賲爻賳 丿丕乇賳丿 賵 蹖丕 丕蹖賳 賳丕禺乇丿蹖 賵 爻丕丿诏蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 蹖賵賴丕賳丕
丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿賵賲 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 卮禺氐蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 毓賱丕賯賴 賲賳丿 讴爻蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 亘賴 噩賳诏 乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿 賵 賳丕賲賴 賲蹖賳賵卮鬲..丕賲丕 賴賳诏丕賲 亘乇诏卮鬲 丕夭 噩賳诏貙 夭賳 賲鬲賵噩賴 卮丿 讴賴 丌賳 賲乇丿 賳丕賲夭丿蹖 丿丕卮鬲賴 賵 倬爻 丕夭 亘乇诏卮鬲 亘賴 丕噩亘丕乇 亘丕 丕賵賳 丕夭丿賵丕噩 讴乇丿賴.. 賴乇趩賳丿 讴賴 禺賵丿卮 丕賲蹖丿蹖 亘賴 亘丕夭诏卮鬲 賳丿丕卮鬲賴..讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 亘賲蹖乇丿 丿乇 噩賳诏 賵 賲噩亘賵乇 亘賴 丕夭丿賵丕噩 賳亘丕卮丿
蹖讴亘丕乇 禺賵賳丿賳卮 亘丿 賳蹖爻鬲
賳禺賵賳丿蹖賳 賴賲 趩蹖夭蹖 丕夭 丿爻鬲 賳丿丕丿蹖丿 :)
December 11, 2015
I admire the fact that the apparent ordinary existence can be intriguing in her stories and that I did picture the small town Canada living and feeling. But around 500 pages of short stories portraying females in some kind of distress was maybe too much to read all along. I suggest savour each story giving some time from one to another. There were some brilliant stories, which moved me deeply.
May 15, 2020
What a lovely read. She is the master of the short story, with complex, subtle, surprising stories. She writes more involvement in a short story than other authors can fit into a novel. Usually when I鈥檓 reading a book of short stories I get to one I don鈥檛 like and I put the book down but not here. She has different timelines and many characters and they all arrive at the end together.
And there is the sadness that runs underneath all the stories, maybe bc she was a child during the depression?
My favorite story is the last one in the book, The Bear came Over the Mountain.
And there is the sadness that runs underneath all the stories, maybe bc she was a child during the depression?
My favorite story is the last one in the book, The Bear came Over the Mountain.
December 11, 2017
Prosaic Perfection!
If I were given only two words to describe Alice Munro achievement 鈥減rosaic perfection鈥� would have to be it.
I admit it was thoroughly snobbish of me. It took my own citizenship, an eminent literature professor鈥檚 laudatory (and hortatory) analysis, and 鈥� as though these were not enough 鈥� a Nobel Prize to get to know and instantly becomeIf I were given only two words to describe Alice Munro achievement 'prosaic perfection' would have to be it.
I admit it was thoroughly snobbish of me. It took my own Canadian citizenship, an eminent literature professor's laudatory (and hortatory) analysis, and ' as though these were not enough ' a Nobel Prize to get acquainted and instantly become besotted with Alice Munro's literary genius.
Yes. Once I looked, it was love at first sight.
'My Best Stories' is a mixed bag, but it is a potent mix. It commences with 'Royal Beatings' of a 'nine, ten, eleven, twelve' year-old Rosie. These all-too-common fatherly affections left such a bloody imprint on her psyche that even a master like Munro could not contain here to a single story. The 'Stories' continue pausing in 'Miles City, Montana' (perhaps the most philosophical pit stop in the collection) where a child's near-death experience forces a mother to an existential what-if blame game. 'Differently' is another story with a philosophical bend, but exploring alternate modus vivendi, one in which we and the people we truly care about were actually (not just conceptually) mortal, it aspires to applied rather than speculative philosophy. 'Wilderness Station' is a Cain and Able story with a twist and an axe that cuts deep into the future while 'Vandals' is a subtle but thoroughly disturbing sexual abuse story.
The penultimate story in the collection, 'Runaway', is pure literary perfection. Yes, the prof that introduced me to Munro did so with this story, but, having finally read it, I must admit that do not think that reading a 400-page novel could engender as much emotional kerfuffle as Munro did in these mere 35 pages.
The final story, 'The Bear that came over the Mountain', is unusual on two accounts. First (although it is about a woman) it is told from a man's perspective, and second, it is a quirky love story that depicts a woman who paradoxically finds her love only after having lost everything else, including her very self.
These, it should be stated, are just my notable mentions each of which easily pays the price of admission to the entire collection. But note that, masterful plots and tabloid-worthy-life- shattering events are the least reasons you invest yourself in them.
The Devil is in the Details:
One of the first thing that strikes a reader about Munro's stories is her obsessive and fastidious attention to detail. 'The smell of cedar bush', a surreptitious look, 'a squashed leaf' or 'a Popsicle stick' matter to her because she knows that despite our ostensible fascination with tawdry extremism it is precisely these minute and seemingly insignificant details that weave any semblance of meaning into our otherwise meaningless lives.
Free Will?:
Reflecting back I see that the invocations of Spinoza in the 'Royal Beatings' which opens this collection might not have been wholly adventitious. The self-making, progressive, and free willing individuals we are taught to see ourselves as are the very pillars of a society where jurisprudence, morality, and progress are possible. But Munro courts the Spinoza-like notion that the forces which drive our actions are, essentially, alien to us; that self-help may be self-delusion, and that free will is nothing more than the past inexorably willing itself on to the present all the while feigning volition.
It is, after all, this burden of history that drives the 'royally' abused Rosie to her future sadomasochistic tendencies in 'The Beggar Maid'; that engenders 'a tongue-tied' grandchildren to a murderous grandfather in the 'Wilderness Station', and that explains a seemingly inexplicable rampage of the saintly born-again Christians in 'Vandals'. As Georgia, a character in 'Differently', succinctly puts it: 'People make momentous shifts, but not the changes they imagine'.
Indeed, 'shift' are not 'changes' but realizing this ' as Spinoza urges us to, understanding our limitations, and discovering the forces that surreptitiously force themselves on us maybe the only freedom we actually have. To put it another way (as the aforementioned stories suggest) while we may be products we are also producers - and herein lies the possibility of ethics.
The Rosetta Stone to a Woman's Soul:
Each story in the collection is its own, self-enclosed, moral arena. We may crave clarity, resolve, and moral rectitude but, much like in the world around us, there are not saints nor martyrs in Munro's universes. As their (re)creator she (and each of her characters) is profoundly moral but never moralizing.
There is only one sacrosanct commandment that guides Munro's Promethean project: and that is to pour the ineffable essence a woman's soul on the page and allow the reader to taste and delight in it. It is - and I am not being hyperbolic - a well-neigh tactile experience and one would be a fool not to indulge in it.
If I were given only two words to describe Alice Munro achievement 鈥減rosaic perfection鈥� would have to be it.
I admit it was thoroughly snobbish of me. It took my own citizenship, an eminent literature professor鈥檚 laudatory (and hortatory) analysis, and 鈥� as though these were not enough 鈥� a Nobel Prize to get to know and instantly becomeIf I were given only two words to describe Alice Munro achievement 'prosaic perfection' would have to be it.
I admit it was thoroughly snobbish of me. It took my own Canadian citizenship, an eminent literature professor's laudatory (and hortatory) analysis, and ' as though these were not enough ' a Nobel Prize to get acquainted and instantly become besotted with Alice Munro's literary genius.
Yes. Once I looked, it was love at first sight.
'My Best Stories' is a mixed bag, but it is a potent mix. It commences with 'Royal Beatings' of a 'nine, ten, eleven, twelve' year-old Rosie. These all-too-common fatherly affections left such a bloody imprint on her psyche that even a master like Munro could not contain here to a single story. The 'Stories' continue pausing in 'Miles City, Montana' (perhaps the most philosophical pit stop in the collection) where a child's near-death experience forces a mother to an existential what-if blame game. 'Differently' is another story with a philosophical bend, but exploring alternate modus vivendi, one in which we and the people we truly care about were actually (not just conceptually) mortal, it aspires to applied rather than speculative philosophy. 'Wilderness Station' is a Cain and Able story with a twist and an axe that cuts deep into the future while 'Vandals' is a subtle but thoroughly disturbing sexual abuse story.
The penultimate story in the collection, 'Runaway', is pure literary perfection. Yes, the prof that introduced me to Munro did so with this story, but, having finally read it, I must admit that do not think that reading a 400-page novel could engender as much emotional kerfuffle as Munro did in these mere 35 pages.
The final story, 'The Bear that came over the Mountain', is unusual on two accounts. First (although it is about a woman) it is told from a man's perspective, and second, it is a quirky love story that depicts a woman who paradoxically finds her love only after having lost everything else, including her very self.
These, it should be stated, are just my notable mentions each of which easily pays the price of admission to the entire collection. But note that, masterful plots and tabloid-worthy-life- shattering events are the least reasons you invest yourself in them.
The Devil is in the Details:
One of the first thing that strikes a reader about Munro's stories is her obsessive and fastidious attention to detail. 'The smell of cedar bush', a surreptitious look, 'a squashed leaf' or 'a Popsicle stick' matter to her because she knows that despite our ostensible fascination with tawdry extremism it is precisely these minute and seemingly insignificant details that weave any semblance of meaning into our otherwise meaningless lives.
Free Will?:
Reflecting back I see that the invocations of Spinoza in the 'Royal Beatings' which opens this collection might not have been wholly adventitious. The self-making, progressive, and free willing individuals we are taught to see ourselves as are the very pillars of a society where jurisprudence, morality, and progress are possible. But Munro courts the Spinoza-like notion that the forces which drive our actions are, essentially, alien to us; that self-help may be self-delusion, and that free will is nothing more than the past inexorably willing itself on to the present all the while feigning volition.
It is, after all, this burden of history that drives the 'royally' abused Rosie to her future sadomasochistic tendencies in 'The Beggar Maid'; that engenders 'a tongue-tied' grandchildren to a murderous grandfather in the 'Wilderness Station', and that explains a seemingly inexplicable rampage of the saintly born-again Christians in 'Vandals'. As Georgia, a character in 'Differently', succinctly puts it: 'People make momentous shifts, but not the changes they imagine'.
Indeed, 'shift' are not 'changes' but realizing this ' as Spinoza urges us to, understanding our limitations, and discovering the forces that surreptitiously force themselves on us maybe the only freedom we actually have. To put it another way (as the aforementioned stories suggest) while we may be products we are also producers - and herein lies the possibility of ethics.
The Rosetta Stone to a Woman's Soul:
Each story in the collection is its own, self-enclosed, moral arena. We may crave clarity, resolve, and moral rectitude but, much like in the world around us, there are not saints nor martyrs in Munro's universes. As their (re)creator she (and each of her characters) is profoundly moral but never moralizing.
There is only one sacrosanct commandment that guides Munro's Promethean project: and that is to pour the ineffable essence a woman's soul on the page and allow the reader to taste and delight in it. It is - and I am not being hyperbolic - a well-neigh tactile experience and one would be a fool not to indulge in it.
December 11, 2017
Alice! Is there anyone better? She was my introduction to short stories, and to Canadian literature. Her writing makes me pause on nearly every page and wonder how she can capture a relationship or an emotion as brilliantly as she does...and then I quickly devour the next page and am astounded all over again. Time, after time, after time鈥nd oh, I鈥檝e read these stories many times. I think this is my most-crinkle-paged book on the shelf, and maybe my most gifted book too (in fact, I handed it over rather aggressively as required Canadian reading to a friend who recently moved here from France.) This collection of seventeen stories chosen by Munro is arranged in the order they were written, so you can enjoy the evolution from one to the next鈥nd then all over again.
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May 27, 2023
Could I be more bored.
February 5, 2020
I racconti sono brevi, come quelli di Carver,spesso senza un vero finale, spesso con qualche traccia di mistero se non, addirittura, di sovrannaturale. Ogni racconto 猫 scritto con una sorta di montaggio alternato cinematografico grazie alla tecnica dell'analessi, questo continuo distogliere l'attenzione dalla storia corrente, spesso risulta stancante per il lettore, altre volte si riscontra una leziosit脿 nell'ingarbugliata trama che pare pleonastica.
__La stagione dei tacchini : La protagonista ricorda la stagione invernale alla Casa del tacchino.La vita al lavoro 猫 scandita delle storie dei suoi colleghi:le due sorelle di mezz'et脿 ridicole ed eccessive, Irene che era incinta, il vecchio ultraottantenne Henry ed il migliore di tutti :Herb Abbott, il caposquadra. C'猫 il burbero capo ed il figlio ignorante e spocchioso. La vita nella sezione macelleria viene descritta in modo estremamente reale senza la minima tentazione verso la poeticit脿 sociale.
__Le lune di Giove. Canada. Una scrittrice con due figlie: una che si prende una pausa per andare in Messico con il fidanzato e l'altra in un voluto buen retiro; fa visita al padre malato. I medici mettono di fronte al padre la possibilit脿 di potersi operare evitando la morte che sopraggiunger脿 nell'arco di tre mesi. Il padre da prima decide di abbandonarsi alla naturale fine poi per貌 cambia idea. La figlia con stoicismo ed impassibilit脿 sembra accettare qualsiasi brutta notizia le si presenti nella vita. Ho pensato che questo personaggio fosse il pi霉 autobiografico.
_Il percorso dell鈥檃more. Una figlia ricorda la madre morta, una donna molto forte, piena di dignit脿, che dopo una vita molto dura da evangelica diventa anglicana dopo il matrimonio. La madre era stata allevata da una vicina di casa che l'aveva "salvata", sua madre, la nonna della protagonista,aveva tentato il suicidio. Nella famiglia c'猫 un eterna colpa da scontare. La protagonista si ricorda di un giorno particolare, quando arriv貌 sua zia Beryl sorella di sua madre, fu una domenica molto piacevole passata al ristorante. Due storie si erano ormai sedimentate in lei ma fu zia Beryl a farle capire che i fatti non erano proprio andati come li raccontava sua madre o come lei li aveva ricordati. La nonna non cerc貌 di suicidarsi con la corda al collo, fu solo uno scherzo per scuotere il marito fedigrafo. I soldi lasciati dall'eredit脿 del nonno, che si immagina si sia macchiato di una colpa atroce, furono bruciati dalla madre nel cammino ma non in presenza di suo padre, suo padre probabilmente lo seppe quel giorno in macchina ma approv貌 ugualmente il gesto della moglie, perch猫 erano i suoi soldi. La protagonista che da quella casa scapp貌 a 15 anni per iscriversi ad una scuola di ragioneria, andare a lavorare poi in un'agenzia immobiliare e diventare in seguito proprietaria di un'agenzia, si chiede quali sofferenze e traumi si nascondano in quelle case di campagna, dove la gente seppur povera riesce a mantenere la propria dignit脿.
__Miles City, Montana. Una donna ricorda il viaggio in macchina in Montana nel '61 con l'ex marito e le due figlie piccole, ma come accade sempre nelle sue storie minime ricorda che quel giorno ricord貌 la morte di un suo quasi coetaneo, il bambino Steve Gauley , ripescato dal padre vicino al fiume. Il bambino era completamente coperto di fango e foglie. Al funerale del piccolo i suoi genitori sembravano aver accettato quella morte infantile come un accadimento solito, forse per la mortalit脿 alta di quegli anni. Proseguendo il ricordo del viaggio, racconta come ebbe un sentore di tragedia mentre le due bambine erano in piscina sorvegliate dalla bambina. In effetti la bambina nuotava sul fondo, il padre la recuper貌 in un battibaleno scavalcando la rete alta due metri e tuffandosi in acqua, fortunatamente la bambina stava benissimo. qui c'猫 una simmetria con l'apertura del ripescaggio da parte del padre del bambino morto, mentre il bambino recupera la figlia viva. Avvicinandosi alla localit脿 prefissata la protagonista pensa a cosa sarebbe potuto accadere se la tragedia avesse fatto visita quel giorno. Si respira una malinconia, una tristezza, una sensazione di perdita dall'inizio alla fine, soprattutto quando confida al lettore di non aver rivisto pi霉 il primo marito con il quale fra alti e bassi vi era un rapporto di solida sincerit脿. Ci si chiede perch猫 una coppia cos矛 ben equilibrata, seppure lontana dalla perfezione, con due bambine bellissime e intelligenti si sia separata e cosa sia successo da allora ad oggi.
__Amica della mia giovent煤-Con gratitudine a R. J. T. Anche qui lo schema si ripete, una figlia ricorda la madre, racconta di vederla nel sogno, con lei che ha l'et脿 attuale e la madre n茅 giovane n茅 cinquantenne o disabile, come invece mor矛. Lo scenario 猫 sempre quello di un Canada rurale, dove crescono figli che hanno goduto di poche carezze genitoriali. Nella prima parte racconta della madre,che insegnante nella valle dell鈥橭ttawa, ancora giovanissima va a vivere da una famiglia di religiosi cameroniani, i Grieves, che praticano l'astinenza di qualsiasi attivit脿 la domenica e vivono senza i pi霉 moderni e necessari confort, anche l'apparenza della loro casa risponde a questa rigida estetica spartana. La famiglia 猫 composta da due sorelle: Flora ed Ellie, che dimostrano il doppio della loro et脿, e dal marito di Ellie: Robert. Flora era la pi霉 simpatica e la madre della protagonista and貌 a vivere nella parte della casa che apparteneva ad essa. Entrambe erano alte e snelle, con un portamento signorile nonostante fossero contadine ed allevatrici. la storia delle due sorelle 猫 molto singolare. Robert era andato a lavorare dai Grieves prima che il padre delle due morisse, e poi per pi霉 di un anno rimase il fidanzato di Flora eterno futuro marito, ma accadde che Robert mise incinta Ellie, e fu cos矛 che il matrimonio si fece ma cambiando la natura degli addendi. Le due sorelle andavano molto d'accordo prima dell'arrivo dell'uomo, ma la gravidanza ridusse Ellie ad un'isterica viziata, mentre Flora continuava a coccolarla ed a volerle bene come ad una figlia. Ellie collezion貌 una lunga serie di aborti ed il bambino non arriv貌 mai, questo nutr矛 ancora di pi霉 le chiacchiere grasse della gente del posto. Quando Ellie si ammal貌 di tumore, arriv貌 una disdicevole infermiera volgare, pigra, presuntuosa ed incompetente di nome , Atkinson. E quando Ellie mor矛 qualche mese dopo tutti si aspettavano che Robert sposasse Flora, ma a sorpresa dopo essere stato raggirato come gli altri spos貌 l'infermiera Atkinson, che presto si impadron矛 di quasi tutta la casa. La madre della protagonista dopo sposata, cerc貌 di contattare Flora e forse la sua lettera fu troppo piena di compassione per non far sollevare la dignit脿 granitica di Flora che con parole educate le chiese di farsi gli affari suoi. La protagonista torna all'inizio della storia ricordando sua madre nei sogni, ancora eretta senza carrozzina, che le parla con lievit脿 dei suoi dolori. Ricordare un genitore e pensarlo al sicuro dei dolori e dalle pene 猫 sempre una gioia. La protagonista immagina una Flora cattiva diversa dal ritratto dipinto da sua madre ed un Robert ipersessuato, ha bisogno di scrivere le sue storie. Si chiese se Flora sia ancora una cameroniana.
Meneseteung E' la triste storia di Almeda Joynt Roth, una poetessa, ricordata nel villaggio e dal quotidiano locale, il 芦Vidette禄. L'infanzia 猫 lacerante, i due fratellini muoiono di malattie infantili, pi霉 tardi la madre muore dal dolore e pi霉 tardi ancora, quando Almeda 猫 gi脿 una donna muore anche il padre. La scrittrice vive nella vecchia casa fra ricordi e solitudine. Nel villaggio arriva Jarvis Poulter che tutti pensano voglia rubare l'acqua della zona per i suoi comodi. Il suo obiettivo 猫 trovare il petrolio, non lo trova ma scopre che la zona 猫 ricca di salgemma e diventa ricco , Almeda scherzando gli fa notare che ha trovato il sale della vita e che forse anticamente in quel posto non vi era la terraferma ma il mare. L'uomo frequentando la chiesa, pi霉 per formalit脿 che per devozione incontra Almeda e se ne innamora. La storia fra i due, disturbata dalle chiacchiere di sottofondo della gente del posto, non dura molto perch猫 Almeda ha una patologia che oggi chiameremmo sindrome mestruale e per lenire il dolore usa il Laudano. Il laudano le causa annebbiamento e stati di confusione, la gente pensa sia alcolizzata e la inizia ad isolare, i ragazzini le giocano scherzi macabri e pesanti. Tempo dopo la dolce e signorile Almeda dagli occhi tristi mor矛 e qualche anno dopo anche il suo vecchio innamorato. Meneseteung 猫 il nome del fiume del villaggio che d脿 il nome ad una delle poesie scritte da Almeda.
Diversamente Diversamente 猫 la storia di alcuni amici e dei lori incroci amorosi. La storia inizia dalla fine con Georgia che si innamora del suo insegnante di scrittura creativa"Georgia e il docente finirono per andare a vivere insieme. Vivono insieme anche adesso, in una fattoria, nell鈥橭ntario. Vendono lamponi e hanno una piccola casa editrice. Quando riesce a mettere insieme i soldi necessari, Georgia va a trovare i suoi figli a Vancouver.". Giorgia va a Victoria a trovare un un amico che si 猫 risposato da poco con una giovane donna: Raymond il marito della sua vecchia amica Maya, morta da un anno. Maya era una donna benestante come il marito ma molto eccentrica, amava ospitare i suoi amici a piedi scalzi e vestirsi da hippy. Maya aveva avuto una relazione con un altro dei loro amici Harvey, ginecologo, sposato con Hilda. Harvey le pratic貌 un aborto quando Maya aspettava il loro bambino ( suo e di Harvey). A quell'epoca Georgia era sposata con Ben. Per un periodo la protagonista del racconto lavor貌 in una libreria, questi giorni sono descritti con molta delicatezza, probabilmente i giorni pi霉 belli della sua vita. In quel periodo conosce anche Miles, giovane belloccio e rossiccio che vede per la prima volta come una visione quando scende dalla moto. Miles si occupa di fotografare meraviglie o antichit脿 nascoste nella natura. Fra i due nasce una relazione, Miles per貌 猫 impegnato e presto si rivela per ci貌 che 猫 davvero. E' uno scambista e vorrebbe avere una relazione a 4 : loro due ed i rispettivi compagni. Georgia 猫 disgustata dalla proposta e lo lascia. Per qualche motivo che non ricordo, Miles va a cercare Georgia a casa di Maya, ma Maya non lascia nulla di intentato e fa sesso con Miles. Georgia lo viene a sapere e rompe l'amicizia con Maya. Il racconto si conclude con questa bellissima frase"Pensa alle sere in cui stava seduta in negozio. Alla luce per strada, al complicato gioco di immagini riflesse nelle vetrine. A quella trasparenza casuale."
Lasciarsi andare Louise 猫 stata in un sanatorio, di professione fa la bibliotecaria,ha avuto la spagnola, nella pensione dove vie,beve ogni sera un bicchiere di vino, alcuni uomini non sopportano che una donna beva, c'猫 un commesso viaggiatore che parla spesso con lei , le fa la corte ed una sera salgono al piano superiori e fanno sesso, ma il commesso non si fa vedere pi霉 da quel giorno. Nel frattempo Louise riceve lettere da un misterioso ammiratore che 猫 in guerra in Europa, dice di averla vista numerose volte alla libreria, ma Louisa non ha mai visto lui. Il ragazzo le chiede se vuole prestarsi a far finta di essere la sua innamorata cosicch茅 egli possa avere una speranza per tornar vivo dalla guerra. Louise divertita dal gioco gli d脿 corda. Quando Jack Agnew, l'ammiratore, torna dalla grande guerra con una lieve ferita, la ragazza scopre dai giornali che presto sposer脿 la sua promessa sposa Lillian. Jack trova lavoro in una falegnameria, qui un giorno tagliando un tronco viene risucchiato dalla sega circolare e viene decapitato, il suo datore di lavoro, Arthur Doud, va a trovare la moglie di Jack per comunicargli la tragedia. Arthur, 猫 vedovo oppure no, non ricordo, e frequentando la biblioteca presto si innamora di Louise e la sposa. La scena si sposta repentinamente in avanti degli anni con Louise ormai vedova che vede un uomo parlare da un palco in un comizio che si chiama come il suo vecchio amico di penna e nella confusione della demenza senile lo scambia per lui o forse pensa sia il vecchio commesso viaggiatore.
La vergine albanese questa 猫 la storia pi霉 ardua da seguire, sia alternano continuamente un racconto inventato da uno dei personaggi: Charlotte e la vita della protagonista, di nuovo una libraia. "Ero venuta a Victoria perch茅 era il posto pi煤 lontano da London, Ontario, che potessi raggiungere senza lasciare il paese. A London mio marito Donald e io avevamo affittato un appartamento nel seminterrato della nostra casa a una coppia, Nelson e Sylvia. Nelson si stava laureando in Letteratura inglese e Sylvia faceva l鈥檌nfermiera. Donald era dermatologo, e io scrivevo una tesi su Mary Shelley" . Successivamente fra Nelson e la protagonista nasce una storia d'amore, cosicch茅 entrambi lasciano i rispettivi coniugi. Donald decide di andare a vivere dalla sua segretaria. Ma dallo snodarsi della storia si intuisce che la ragazza si lascia anche con Nelson. Nel frattempo la protagonista va a trovare Charlotte ricoverata in ospedale, una strana donna, canuta e di mezza et脿, abbigliata in ampie palandrane che va sempre in giro con il marito, un uomo ambito e dallo sguardo losco, probabilmente un medio orientale. Charlotte racconta alla libraia, una storia da lei inventata, brano per brano, 猫 la storia di Lottar, una vergine albanese, una donna che vive come una guerriera isolata dal mondo, dopo essere stata rapita e che un prete liberer脿 per riportarla alla civilt脿. La libraia aveva conosciuto Charlotte in libreria, erano diventate molto amiche ma il marito Gjurdhi, un traffichino che andava sempre in giro con un carretto pieno di anticaglie, cercava sempre di rifilarle qualche vecchio libro da comprare. Charlotte muore in ospedale, il marito scompare. Quando la libraia ripensa alla sua vita, dopo molto tempo, vede entrare Nelson e si suppone che tornino insieme. Sicuramente questa 猫 stata la storia pi霉 pesante da seguire.
Un posto selvaggio. Questa storia va indietro nel tempo. Siamo nel 1852 a Toronto, in un orfanotrofio due ragazze sono osservate dal direttore per poi prometterle a bravi giovani. la pi霉 sana delle due, ma meno bella, Miss McKillop,era strabica, viene promessa ad un giovane contadino Simon Herron. Nel bosco Miss McKillop vive con Simon ed il fratello George. Un giorno George torna a casa trascinando il cadavere del fratello, adducendo che era morto sotto la mole di un ramo caduto . La giovane ed il cognato seppelliscono Simon sotto la neve. Dopo alcuni mesi la giovane vedova scappa e va a rifugiarsi in un luogo vicino. Con passare del tempo si scopre la verit脿, Simon era un violento, colpiva spesso la moglie, e quel giorno aveva litigato con il fratello George che lo uccise.
__La stagione dei tacchini : La protagonista ricorda la stagione invernale alla Casa del tacchino.La vita al lavoro 猫 scandita delle storie dei suoi colleghi:le due sorelle di mezz'et脿 ridicole ed eccessive, Irene che era incinta, il vecchio ultraottantenne Henry ed il migliore di tutti :Herb Abbott, il caposquadra. C'猫 il burbero capo ed il figlio ignorante e spocchioso. La vita nella sezione macelleria viene descritta in modo estremamente reale senza la minima tentazione verso la poeticit脿 sociale.
__Le lune di Giove. Canada. Una scrittrice con due figlie: una che si prende una pausa per andare in Messico con il fidanzato e l'altra in un voluto buen retiro; fa visita al padre malato. I medici mettono di fronte al padre la possibilit脿 di potersi operare evitando la morte che sopraggiunger脿 nell'arco di tre mesi. Il padre da prima decide di abbandonarsi alla naturale fine poi per貌 cambia idea. La figlia con stoicismo ed impassibilit脿 sembra accettare qualsiasi brutta notizia le si presenti nella vita. Ho pensato che questo personaggio fosse il pi霉 autobiografico.
_Il percorso dell鈥檃more. Una figlia ricorda la madre morta, una donna molto forte, piena di dignit脿, che dopo una vita molto dura da evangelica diventa anglicana dopo il matrimonio. La madre era stata allevata da una vicina di casa che l'aveva "salvata", sua madre, la nonna della protagonista,aveva tentato il suicidio. Nella famiglia c'猫 un eterna colpa da scontare. La protagonista si ricorda di un giorno particolare, quando arriv貌 sua zia Beryl sorella di sua madre, fu una domenica molto piacevole passata al ristorante. Due storie si erano ormai sedimentate in lei ma fu zia Beryl a farle capire che i fatti non erano proprio andati come li raccontava sua madre o come lei li aveva ricordati. La nonna non cerc貌 di suicidarsi con la corda al collo, fu solo uno scherzo per scuotere il marito fedigrafo. I soldi lasciati dall'eredit脿 del nonno, che si immagina si sia macchiato di una colpa atroce, furono bruciati dalla madre nel cammino ma non in presenza di suo padre, suo padre probabilmente lo seppe quel giorno in macchina ma approv貌 ugualmente il gesto della moglie, perch猫 erano i suoi soldi. La protagonista che da quella casa scapp貌 a 15 anni per iscriversi ad una scuola di ragioneria, andare a lavorare poi in un'agenzia immobiliare e diventare in seguito proprietaria di un'agenzia, si chiede quali sofferenze e traumi si nascondano in quelle case di campagna, dove la gente seppur povera riesce a mantenere la propria dignit脿.
__Miles City, Montana. Una donna ricorda il viaggio in macchina in Montana nel '61 con l'ex marito e le due figlie piccole, ma come accade sempre nelle sue storie minime ricorda che quel giorno ricord貌 la morte di un suo quasi coetaneo, il bambino Steve Gauley , ripescato dal padre vicino al fiume. Il bambino era completamente coperto di fango e foglie. Al funerale del piccolo i suoi genitori sembravano aver accettato quella morte infantile come un accadimento solito, forse per la mortalit脿 alta di quegli anni. Proseguendo il ricordo del viaggio, racconta come ebbe un sentore di tragedia mentre le due bambine erano in piscina sorvegliate dalla bambina. In effetti la bambina nuotava sul fondo, il padre la recuper貌 in un battibaleno scavalcando la rete alta due metri e tuffandosi in acqua, fortunatamente la bambina stava benissimo. qui c'猫 una simmetria con l'apertura del ripescaggio da parte del padre del bambino morto, mentre il bambino recupera la figlia viva. Avvicinandosi alla localit脿 prefissata la protagonista pensa a cosa sarebbe potuto accadere se la tragedia avesse fatto visita quel giorno. Si respira una malinconia, una tristezza, una sensazione di perdita dall'inizio alla fine, soprattutto quando confida al lettore di non aver rivisto pi霉 il primo marito con il quale fra alti e bassi vi era un rapporto di solida sincerit脿. Ci si chiede perch猫 una coppia cos矛 ben equilibrata, seppure lontana dalla perfezione, con due bambine bellissime e intelligenti si sia separata e cosa sia successo da allora ad oggi.
__Amica della mia giovent煤-Con gratitudine a R. J. T. Anche qui lo schema si ripete, una figlia ricorda la madre, racconta di vederla nel sogno, con lei che ha l'et脿 attuale e la madre n茅 giovane n茅 cinquantenne o disabile, come invece mor矛. Lo scenario 猫 sempre quello di un Canada rurale, dove crescono figli che hanno goduto di poche carezze genitoriali. Nella prima parte racconta della madre,che insegnante nella valle dell鈥橭ttawa, ancora giovanissima va a vivere da una famiglia di religiosi cameroniani, i Grieves, che praticano l'astinenza di qualsiasi attivit脿 la domenica e vivono senza i pi霉 moderni e necessari confort, anche l'apparenza della loro casa risponde a questa rigida estetica spartana. La famiglia 猫 composta da due sorelle: Flora ed Ellie, che dimostrano il doppio della loro et脿, e dal marito di Ellie: Robert. Flora era la pi霉 simpatica e la madre della protagonista and貌 a vivere nella parte della casa che apparteneva ad essa. Entrambe erano alte e snelle, con un portamento signorile nonostante fossero contadine ed allevatrici. la storia delle due sorelle 猫 molto singolare. Robert era andato a lavorare dai Grieves prima che il padre delle due morisse, e poi per pi霉 di un anno rimase il fidanzato di Flora eterno futuro marito, ma accadde che Robert mise incinta Ellie, e fu cos矛 che il matrimonio si fece ma cambiando la natura degli addendi. Le due sorelle andavano molto d'accordo prima dell'arrivo dell'uomo, ma la gravidanza ridusse Ellie ad un'isterica viziata, mentre Flora continuava a coccolarla ed a volerle bene come ad una figlia. Ellie collezion貌 una lunga serie di aborti ed il bambino non arriv貌 mai, questo nutr矛 ancora di pi霉 le chiacchiere grasse della gente del posto. Quando Ellie si ammal貌 di tumore, arriv貌 una disdicevole infermiera volgare, pigra, presuntuosa ed incompetente di nome , Atkinson. E quando Ellie mor矛 qualche mese dopo tutti si aspettavano che Robert sposasse Flora, ma a sorpresa dopo essere stato raggirato come gli altri spos貌 l'infermiera Atkinson, che presto si impadron矛 di quasi tutta la casa. La madre della protagonista dopo sposata, cerc貌 di contattare Flora e forse la sua lettera fu troppo piena di compassione per non far sollevare la dignit脿 granitica di Flora che con parole educate le chiese di farsi gli affari suoi. La protagonista torna all'inizio della storia ricordando sua madre nei sogni, ancora eretta senza carrozzina, che le parla con lievit脿 dei suoi dolori. Ricordare un genitore e pensarlo al sicuro dei dolori e dalle pene 猫 sempre una gioia. La protagonista immagina una Flora cattiva diversa dal ritratto dipinto da sua madre ed un Robert ipersessuato, ha bisogno di scrivere le sue storie. Si chiese se Flora sia ancora una cameroniana.
Meneseteung E' la triste storia di Almeda Joynt Roth, una poetessa, ricordata nel villaggio e dal quotidiano locale, il 芦Vidette禄. L'infanzia 猫 lacerante, i due fratellini muoiono di malattie infantili, pi霉 tardi la madre muore dal dolore e pi霉 tardi ancora, quando Almeda 猫 gi脿 una donna muore anche il padre. La scrittrice vive nella vecchia casa fra ricordi e solitudine. Nel villaggio arriva Jarvis Poulter che tutti pensano voglia rubare l'acqua della zona per i suoi comodi. Il suo obiettivo 猫 trovare il petrolio, non lo trova ma scopre che la zona 猫 ricca di salgemma e diventa ricco , Almeda scherzando gli fa notare che ha trovato il sale della vita e che forse anticamente in quel posto non vi era la terraferma ma il mare. L'uomo frequentando la chiesa, pi霉 per formalit脿 che per devozione incontra Almeda e se ne innamora. La storia fra i due, disturbata dalle chiacchiere di sottofondo della gente del posto, non dura molto perch猫 Almeda ha una patologia che oggi chiameremmo sindrome mestruale e per lenire il dolore usa il Laudano. Il laudano le causa annebbiamento e stati di confusione, la gente pensa sia alcolizzata e la inizia ad isolare, i ragazzini le giocano scherzi macabri e pesanti. Tempo dopo la dolce e signorile Almeda dagli occhi tristi mor矛 e qualche anno dopo anche il suo vecchio innamorato. Meneseteung 猫 il nome del fiume del villaggio che d脿 il nome ad una delle poesie scritte da Almeda.
Diversamente Diversamente 猫 la storia di alcuni amici e dei lori incroci amorosi. La storia inizia dalla fine con Georgia che si innamora del suo insegnante di scrittura creativa"Georgia e il docente finirono per andare a vivere insieme. Vivono insieme anche adesso, in una fattoria, nell鈥橭ntario. Vendono lamponi e hanno una piccola casa editrice. Quando riesce a mettere insieme i soldi necessari, Georgia va a trovare i suoi figli a Vancouver.". Giorgia va a Victoria a trovare un un amico che si 猫 risposato da poco con una giovane donna: Raymond il marito della sua vecchia amica Maya, morta da un anno. Maya era una donna benestante come il marito ma molto eccentrica, amava ospitare i suoi amici a piedi scalzi e vestirsi da hippy. Maya aveva avuto una relazione con un altro dei loro amici Harvey, ginecologo, sposato con Hilda. Harvey le pratic貌 un aborto quando Maya aspettava il loro bambino ( suo e di Harvey). A quell'epoca Georgia era sposata con Ben. Per un periodo la protagonista del racconto lavor貌 in una libreria, questi giorni sono descritti con molta delicatezza, probabilmente i giorni pi霉 belli della sua vita. In quel periodo conosce anche Miles, giovane belloccio e rossiccio che vede per la prima volta come una visione quando scende dalla moto. Miles si occupa di fotografare meraviglie o antichit脿 nascoste nella natura. Fra i due nasce una relazione, Miles per貌 猫 impegnato e presto si rivela per ci貌 che 猫 davvero. E' uno scambista e vorrebbe avere una relazione a 4 : loro due ed i rispettivi compagni. Georgia 猫 disgustata dalla proposta e lo lascia. Per qualche motivo che non ricordo, Miles va a cercare Georgia a casa di Maya, ma Maya non lascia nulla di intentato e fa sesso con Miles. Georgia lo viene a sapere e rompe l'amicizia con Maya. Il racconto si conclude con questa bellissima frase"Pensa alle sere in cui stava seduta in negozio. Alla luce per strada, al complicato gioco di immagini riflesse nelle vetrine. A quella trasparenza casuale."
Lasciarsi andare Louise 猫 stata in un sanatorio, di professione fa la bibliotecaria,ha avuto la spagnola, nella pensione dove vie,beve ogni sera un bicchiere di vino, alcuni uomini non sopportano che una donna beva, c'猫 un commesso viaggiatore che parla spesso con lei , le fa la corte ed una sera salgono al piano superiori e fanno sesso, ma il commesso non si fa vedere pi霉 da quel giorno. Nel frattempo Louise riceve lettere da un misterioso ammiratore che 猫 in guerra in Europa, dice di averla vista numerose volte alla libreria, ma Louisa non ha mai visto lui. Il ragazzo le chiede se vuole prestarsi a far finta di essere la sua innamorata cosicch茅 egli possa avere una speranza per tornar vivo dalla guerra. Louise divertita dal gioco gli d脿 corda. Quando Jack Agnew, l'ammiratore, torna dalla grande guerra con una lieve ferita, la ragazza scopre dai giornali che presto sposer脿 la sua promessa sposa Lillian. Jack trova lavoro in una falegnameria, qui un giorno tagliando un tronco viene risucchiato dalla sega circolare e viene decapitato, il suo datore di lavoro, Arthur Doud, va a trovare la moglie di Jack per comunicargli la tragedia. Arthur, 猫 vedovo oppure no, non ricordo, e frequentando la biblioteca presto si innamora di Louise e la sposa. La scena si sposta repentinamente in avanti degli anni con Louise ormai vedova che vede un uomo parlare da un palco in un comizio che si chiama come il suo vecchio amico di penna e nella confusione della demenza senile lo scambia per lui o forse pensa sia il vecchio commesso viaggiatore.
La vergine albanese questa 猫 la storia pi霉 ardua da seguire, sia alternano continuamente un racconto inventato da uno dei personaggi: Charlotte e la vita della protagonista, di nuovo una libraia. "Ero venuta a Victoria perch茅 era il posto pi煤 lontano da London, Ontario, che potessi raggiungere senza lasciare il paese. A London mio marito Donald e io avevamo affittato un appartamento nel seminterrato della nostra casa a una coppia, Nelson e Sylvia. Nelson si stava laureando in Letteratura inglese e Sylvia faceva l鈥檌nfermiera. Donald era dermatologo, e io scrivevo una tesi su Mary Shelley" . Successivamente fra Nelson e la protagonista nasce una storia d'amore, cosicch茅 entrambi lasciano i rispettivi coniugi. Donald decide di andare a vivere dalla sua segretaria. Ma dallo snodarsi della storia si intuisce che la ragazza si lascia anche con Nelson. Nel frattempo la protagonista va a trovare Charlotte ricoverata in ospedale, una strana donna, canuta e di mezza et脿, abbigliata in ampie palandrane che va sempre in giro con il marito, un uomo ambito e dallo sguardo losco, probabilmente un medio orientale. Charlotte racconta alla libraia, una storia da lei inventata, brano per brano, 猫 la storia di Lottar, una vergine albanese, una donna che vive come una guerriera isolata dal mondo, dopo essere stata rapita e che un prete liberer脿 per riportarla alla civilt脿. La libraia aveva conosciuto Charlotte in libreria, erano diventate molto amiche ma il marito Gjurdhi, un traffichino che andava sempre in giro con un carretto pieno di anticaglie, cercava sempre di rifilarle qualche vecchio libro da comprare. Charlotte muore in ospedale, il marito scompare. Quando la libraia ripensa alla sua vita, dopo molto tempo, vede entrare Nelson e si suppone che tornino insieme. Sicuramente questa 猫 stata la storia pi霉 pesante da seguire.
Un posto selvaggio. Questa storia va indietro nel tempo. Siamo nel 1852 a Toronto, in un orfanotrofio due ragazze sono osservate dal direttore per poi prometterle a bravi giovani. la pi霉 sana delle due, ma meno bella, Miss McKillop,era strabica, viene promessa ad un giovane contadino Simon Herron. Nel bosco Miss McKillop vive con Simon ed il fratello George. Un giorno George torna a casa trascinando il cadavere del fratello, adducendo che era morto sotto la mole di un ramo caduto . La giovane ed il cognato seppelliscono Simon sotto la neve. Dopo alcuni mesi la giovane vedova scappa e va a rifugiarsi in un luogo vicino. Con passare del tempo si scopre la verit脿, Simon era un violento, colpiva spesso la moglie, e quel giorno aveva litigato con il fratello George che lo uccise.
February 22, 2022
Alice Munro es maravillosa. Su forma de concebir el g茅nero del cuento es algo descomunal. Sus tramas se tejen de una forma tan natural y espont谩nea que una vez enganchado en la lectura el lector atento encuentra dificultad en soltarla. Los narradores de estos cuentos son personajes rotos, rurales, que miran hacia el pasado, despliegan sus miedos, sus carencias, sus voces trascienden mediante espirales de tiempo que van y vienen con una naturalidad magistral. Es dif铆cil resaltar un cuento por encima de otro porque cada uno brilla con luz propia, pero despu茅s de un exhaustivo an谩lisis me he decantado por 鈥淐arried away鈥�, que originalmente fue publicado en la colecci贸n 鈥淟as lunas de J煤piter鈥�. Munro desarrolla una situaci贸n tan improbable e incluso, para los tiempos que vivimos, hasta inveros铆mil, de una manera tan exacta, realista, que, sin saberlo, el lector no s贸lo la ve como algo probable, sino como el canal id贸neo para darle forma al cuento. Saltos temporales, lenguaje bien estructurado, elipsis argumentales, tensi贸n que sube y baja. Munro es, sin duda, una autora ineludible, obligatoria, de quien se puede aprender c贸mo se debe escribir un cuento de calidad.
August 16, 2022
continuing on my nobel prize binge: how nice it is to have such talent associated with canada. for a country seemingly so defined by not being its southern neighbour, munro brings us into a fantastic wrestling match with the paradoxes of the 'not', showing us an the absolutely canadian taste of not quite being rich, not quite being religious, not quite being chaste, not quite being in love, not quite being loyal, not quite being artistic, not quite being alive but not quite being dead either. there's no real way to encapsulate how much these stories wrap you up and spit you out with a reformed aesthetic view, but for sure this is not an author you can afford to ignore.
also the short story format is great for low attention span people like me.
also the short story format is great for low attention span people like me.
November 9, 2020
My first experience of Munro 鈥� stunning at first, then somewhat dreary and repetitive, and then an icy maturity as she broke new ground with the later stories. On a prose level, this is a master class, but the subject material feels as exhausting as living through the mid 20th century myself, and her ungenerously precise view of people is a relief to step away from every so often. A writer to admire and learn from but not one I think I鈥檒l be revisiting often.
June 26, 2022
Incredibly good, all the nuance you could ever want. Favourites were: 鈥楥arried Away鈥�, 鈥楬ateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage鈥�, 鈥楾he Albanian Virgin鈥�, 鈥楢 Wilderness Station鈥� and 鈥楾he Beggar Maid鈥�.
July 30, 2024
"Miles City, Montana" was a highlight for me. All of Munro's stories are great, but that one roped me in.
February 7, 2024
This was really interesting. I鈥檓 excited to hear what my professor has to say about it because I didn鈥檛 pick up on everything I should have!
Edit in class: my prof is telling us what actually happened... girl I didn't get any of that
Edit in class: my prof is telling us what actually happened... girl I didn't get any of that
July 8, 2024
鈥樏� cos铆 che si osservano i dettagli anche pi煤 insignificanti del mondo reale dopo che si 猫 stati in viaggio per ore: se ne percepisce l鈥檌solamento e la precisa collocazione insieme alla fortuita coincidenza dell鈥檈ssere l铆, in quel momento, a guardarli.鈥�
Nei racconti migliori 猫 in quel preciso momento che la scrittura di Alice Munro riesce a collocarti. In quei passaggi fulminanti dove passato, presente e futuro sono simultanei. Dove tutto pu貌 accadere: il dramma (Miles City, Montana), la scoperta (Salvate il mietitore), una nuova vita (In fuga). Ci sono pagine e passaggi che squarciano l鈥檃nimo umano (soprattutto femminile) con una lucidit脿 meravigliosa e spietata, portando a galla quei 鈥榞rumi鈥� che ci tengono svegli la notte, che nascondiamo anche a noi stessi.
Capolavori:
Miles City, Montana
Salvate il mietitore
Il percorso dell鈥檃more
The Bear came over the mountain
Vandali
In fuga
Nei racconti migliori 猫 in quel preciso momento che la scrittura di Alice Munro riesce a collocarti. In quei passaggi fulminanti dove passato, presente e futuro sono simultanei. Dove tutto pu貌 accadere: il dramma (Miles City, Montana), la scoperta (Salvate il mietitore), una nuova vita (In fuga). Ci sono pagine e passaggi che squarciano l鈥檃nimo umano (soprattutto femminile) con una lucidit脿 meravigliosa e spietata, portando a galla quei 鈥榞rumi鈥� che ci tengono svegli la notte, che nascondiamo anche a noi stessi.
Capolavori:
Miles City, Montana
Salvate il mietitore
Il percorso dell鈥檃more
The Bear came over the mountain
Vandali
In fuga
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February 15, 2017
Questa 猫 un'antologia di racconti tratti da varie opere della Munro e da lei scelti come i pi霉 rappresentativi del suo stile, che non pi霉 tardi di due anni fa, le ha permesso di essere insignita del meritatissimo Nobel per la Letteratura. Dare un giudizio unico e globale del libro in s茅 mi riusciva difficile, poich茅 猫 la prima volta che mi accosto a questa scrittrice e alla moltitudine di tematiche da lei indagate. Come spesso accade, alcuni brani mi hanno colpito maggiormente rispetto ad altri ma in tutti emerge la bravura nel rendere la complessit脿 dell'animo umano attraverso un'attenta analisi della quotidianit脿 e dei rapporti interpersonali, resa con un stile descrittivo ma al contempo asciutto e privo di abbellimenti. L'atmosfera di solitudine dei suoi personaggi mi ha ricordato moltissimo i quadri di Edward Hopper.
Tra i miei racconti preferiti: (attenzione)
Tra i miei racconti preferiti: (attenzione)
April 17, 2020
Who Do You Think You Are by Alice Munro
10 out of 10
Doubt is the name of a fabulous motion picture, with the outstanding Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Amy Adams - - and it also what many feel when the Nobel, Pulitzer or some other prestigious prize is awarded, but in the case of Alice Munro, this reader has no more Doubt, after exulting in The Beggar Maid - - and then completing the Virtuous Circle with Who do You Think You Are, included on The Guardian鈥檚 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list - - in the Family and Self zone.
The collection of short stories follows Rose and to a lesser extent, her step mother, Flo, as the former has to endure squalor and abuse as a child, then grows up, while the latter grows old and then loses some of her mental capacities 鈥� forgetting who the visitor is at times, though on occasion, as when she scolds the guest that has braved the snowstorm, extreme fatigue to see her and tells her 鈥榮he must not park the car in the street, she has to shovel the snow鈥�, even when the 鈥榲isitor鈥� insists that one more word would make her depart 鈥� ending up in a home, when being alone would no longer be sustainable or safe for her.
In The Beggar Maid, we are acquainted with Patrick Blatchford, the son of the very wealthy owner of a chain of stores and a very peculiar, snobbish, silent and hostile mother 鈥� the heroine is worried that she might see some of those traits in her daughter, Anna 鈥� who has a period in which he is in conflict with the family, unwilling to enter their business, and apparently in admiration of the woman who comes from such a poor background, but the one who might inadvertently chosen the perfect approach for the cavalier, outr茅 young man, when she came to him to vent the anger caused by a stranger who had just grabbed her ankle, as she was arranging some books in the library where she was working temporarily and the student was reading鈥�
The difference between them is emphasized by many exchanges, scenes and the infatuated use of erudition, such as when he references the painting of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 鈥� which gives the name to the short story 鈥� but this is a bad habit that this complicated man has, he is more than surprised when the others do not know about the said tableau and much else of what he mentions and he is also puzzled when the rest say something he does not know鈥e is considered a huge catch and girls at the faculty are very jealous and baffled to find that Rose is the one to get him鈥onetheless, the young woman 鈥� virgin when she has coitus with him 鈥� is not so sure that this is the love of her life and the interaction between them is worth reading about, she provokes him 鈥� in one passage, she talks about the erectile dimension of his attraction for the old landlady 鈥� and in one nadir, she declares she would not marry him, despite the fact that she had accepted, and raises the stakes or lowers them by adding that he is weak, and other insults that appear to make any redemption impossible鈥�
Patrick acts with stoicism and endurance, on the face of it and with hindsight, he would extract revenge for this, by assaulting his wife, literally and psychologically, and before they take their marital vows, he is rather loathsome when they visit Flo and he says that 鈥榟e agrees, it is a dump鈥� and reacts with horror at the food offered, the tackiness of the place鈥hen Rose declares she is not marrying him, he suggests a period of a couple of weeks of meditation, reflection and the result is that the heroine, who is for most of the time unpredictable, decides earlier on getting married, after asking to be pardoned for the humiliation poured on the poor man鈥�
Poor man who is immediately quite rich, for he accepts entering the store managing business, acquires an impressive house, if not the massive, opulent mansion the parents have, only Rose is not happy with this 鈥榝ortune鈥� 鈥� indeed, positive psychology studies have discovered the Hedonic Adaptation, a phenomenon which has humans adapt to material things鈥he Coolidge effect might play here too 鈥� and she is infatuated (probably love would not do as a proper term) with the husband of an acquaintance, Jocelyn, and this violin player, Clifford, would provide some excitement in her life, for they kiss and embrace within the first few minutes after they meet at a party, then they plan on moving their platonic affair into a carnal sphere, as the man tours with the philharmonic and the protagonist would meet with him at the bus station, in this little town along the itinerary of the musician鈥�
Alas, there is no bus stop and she is terrified after waiting for many long hours, on the porch of a home for the old, planning desperate exits for what looks like a catastrophic scenario, because she only has a dollar or two 鈥� whenever she needs something, she has to ask her rich husband, who is not magnanimous, but quite strict 鈥� and thus she has to envisage a situation where she claims she has become amnesic and has no idea what she is doing in this place, to be thus able to get away鈥ortunately, Clifford arrives eventually, but this ends quite horridly, with him saying it would be a Mischief (which is the name of the short story about this) and this is happening again, with differences, when she is separated from Patrick and lives with Anna, in a quite lackluster, poor place and she tries to escape, find solace into another affair, which is blocked by a snowstorm this time 鈥� when she tries to travel to meet this other married man, she takes her daughter with her, but there is no way out, the heavy Canadian snowfall has blocked the airport and there is no bus coming and thus departing from her small town鈥�
What happens in the short story Providence is continued with Simon鈥檚 Luck, which begins at a party, where the apparently careless, unloving, insensitive Rose tells the story of her cat, which she had not really wanted, but decided he would be hers anyway and just before coming to this do, he jumped into the clothes in the washing machine and when she took them out later, she wondered what fur does she possess鈥t was the expired tomcat, which provoked laughter among some guests and horror in the host鈥his where she meets Simon, who comes home with her, play acts some characters, talks about and does work in her garden, mentions arranging the faulty heating system and when he departs, she thinks it is only to return the following weekend and when this does not happen, she is so devastated that she drinks so much it will have become a problem, unless she took definitive action, packed her things, sent some messages and moves altogether, only to leant later about 鈥楽imon鈥檚 Luck鈥欌€�
In other two short stories in the collection, we learn about the man who has a low IQ, Milton Homer, who takes part in all the parades, when a baby is born, he comes to all the houses and declares that the infants should have a good life and if they die, they will be in the hands of Jesus 鈥� something similar I hope 鈥� but he has a perversity, which could be explained by his mental derangement, and he appears to be both an exhibitionist and a quite violent man, when he did not get his, institutionalized at some point, quite beyond the proper limit apparently 鈥�
10 out of 10
Doubt is the name of a fabulous motion picture, with the outstanding Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Amy Adams - - and it also what many feel when the Nobel, Pulitzer or some other prestigious prize is awarded, but in the case of Alice Munro, this reader has no more Doubt, after exulting in The Beggar Maid - - and then completing the Virtuous Circle with Who do You Think You Are, included on The Guardian鈥檚 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list - - in the Family and Self zone.
The collection of short stories follows Rose and to a lesser extent, her step mother, Flo, as the former has to endure squalor and abuse as a child, then grows up, while the latter grows old and then loses some of her mental capacities 鈥� forgetting who the visitor is at times, though on occasion, as when she scolds the guest that has braved the snowstorm, extreme fatigue to see her and tells her 鈥榮he must not park the car in the street, she has to shovel the snow鈥�, even when the 鈥榲isitor鈥� insists that one more word would make her depart 鈥� ending up in a home, when being alone would no longer be sustainable or safe for her.
In The Beggar Maid, we are acquainted with Patrick Blatchford, the son of the very wealthy owner of a chain of stores and a very peculiar, snobbish, silent and hostile mother 鈥� the heroine is worried that she might see some of those traits in her daughter, Anna 鈥� who has a period in which he is in conflict with the family, unwilling to enter their business, and apparently in admiration of the woman who comes from such a poor background, but the one who might inadvertently chosen the perfect approach for the cavalier, outr茅 young man, when she came to him to vent the anger caused by a stranger who had just grabbed her ankle, as she was arranging some books in the library where she was working temporarily and the student was reading鈥�
The difference between them is emphasized by many exchanges, scenes and the infatuated use of erudition, such as when he references the painting of King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 鈥� which gives the name to the short story 鈥� but this is a bad habit that this complicated man has, he is more than surprised when the others do not know about the said tableau and much else of what he mentions and he is also puzzled when the rest say something he does not know鈥e is considered a huge catch and girls at the faculty are very jealous and baffled to find that Rose is the one to get him鈥onetheless, the young woman 鈥� virgin when she has coitus with him 鈥� is not so sure that this is the love of her life and the interaction between them is worth reading about, she provokes him 鈥� in one passage, she talks about the erectile dimension of his attraction for the old landlady 鈥� and in one nadir, she declares she would not marry him, despite the fact that she had accepted, and raises the stakes or lowers them by adding that he is weak, and other insults that appear to make any redemption impossible鈥�
Patrick acts with stoicism and endurance, on the face of it and with hindsight, he would extract revenge for this, by assaulting his wife, literally and psychologically, and before they take their marital vows, he is rather loathsome when they visit Flo and he says that 鈥榟e agrees, it is a dump鈥� and reacts with horror at the food offered, the tackiness of the place鈥hen Rose declares she is not marrying him, he suggests a period of a couple of weeks of meditation, reflection and the result is that the heroine, who is for most of the time unpredictable, decides earlier on getting married, after asking to be pardoned for the humiliation poured on the poor man鈥�
Poor man who is immediately quite rich, for he accepts entering the store managing business, acquires an impressive house, if not the massive, opulent mansion the parents have, only Rose is not happy with this 鈥榝ortune鈥� 鈥� indeed, positive psychology studies have discovered the Hedonic Adaptation, a phenomenon which has humans adapt to material things鈥he Coolidge effect might play here too 鈥� and she is infatuated (probably love would not do as a proper term) with the husband of an acquaintance, Jocelyn, and this violin player, Clifford, would provide some excitement in her life, for they kiss and embrace within the first few minutes after they meet at a party, then they plan on moving their platonic affair into a carnal sphere, as the man tours with the philharmonic and the protagonist would meet with him at the bus station, in this little town along the itinerary of the musician鈥�
Alas, there is no bus stop and she is terrified after waiting for many long hours, on the porch of a home for the old, planning desperate exits for what looks like a catastrophic scenario, because she only has a dollar or two 鈥� whenever she needs something, she has to ask her rich husband, who is not magnanimous, but quite strict 鈥� and thus she has to envisage a situation where she claims she has become amnesic and has no idea what she is doing in this place, to be thus able to get away鈥ortunately, Clifford arrives eventually, but this ends quite horridly, with him saying it would be a Mischief (which is the name of the short story about this) and this is happening again, with differences, when she is separated from Patrick and lives with Anna, in a quite lackluster, poor place and she tries to escape, find solace into another affair, which is blocked by a snowstorm this time 鈥� when she tries to travel to meet this other married man, she takes her daughter with her, but there is no way out, the heavy Canadian snowfall has blocked the airport and there is no bus coming and thus departing from her small town鈥�
What happens in the short story Providence is continued with Simon鈥檚 Luck, which begins at a party, where the apparently careless, unloving, insensitive Rose tells the story of her cat, which she had not really wanted, but decided he would be hers anyway and just before coming to this do, he jumped into the clothes in the washing machine and when she took them out later, she wondered what fur does she possess鈥t was the expired tomcat, which provoked laughter among some guests and horror in the host鈥his where she meets Simon, who comes home with her, play acts some characters, talks about and does work in her garden, mentions arranging the faulty heating system and when he departs, she thinks it is only to return the following weekend and when this does not happen, she is so devastated that she drinks so much it will have become a problem, unless she took definitive action, packed her things, sent some messages and moves altogether, only to leant later about 鈥楽imon鈥檚 Luck鈥欌€�
In other two short stories in the collection, we learn about the man who has a low IQ, Milton Homer, who takes part in all the parades, when a baby is born, he comes to all the houses and declares that the infants should have a good life and if they die, they will be in the hands of Jesus 鈥� something similar I hope 鈥� but he has a perversity, which could be explained by his mental derangement, and he appears to be both an exhibitionist and a quite violent man, when he did not get his, institutionalized at some point, quite beyond the proper limit apparently 鈥�
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