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丕賱噩亘丕賱 丕賱孬賲丕賳賷丞
賱賷爻鬲 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賴賷 賮賯胤 丨賷孬 丕賱賯賲賲貙 賵丕賱噩賱賷丿 賵丕賱賲睾丕賲乇丕鬲 賵賱賰賳賴丕 兀賷囟賸丕 兀爻賱賵亘 丨賷丕丞: 賲鬲賶 賷鬲乇賰 丕賱賲乇亍 賲爻丕賮丞貙 賲鬲賶 賷鬲乇丕噩毓貙 賲鬲賶 賷鬲賯丿賲 丕賱賲爻賷乇 賵賲鬲賶 賷賱鬲夭賲 丕賱氐賲鬲. ...
賯丕賱 兀丨丿賴賲: 賱丕 賷噩亘 兀賳 賳鬲乇賰 賱兀亘賳丕卅賳丕 賮賯胤 丕賱丕賳噩丕夭丕鬲 賵丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱鬲賷 睾賷乇鬲 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賮賯胤貙 賵賱賰賳 賷噩亘 兀賳 賳爻噩賱 賱賴賲 兀賷囟賸丕 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨賰丕賷丕鬲 丕賱賷賵賲賷丞貙 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲卮乇丨 賱賴賲 賰賷賮 毓卮賳丕. 賵賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 丕賱亘爻賷胤丞 賵丕賱毓賲賷賯丞 賮賷 丌賳貙 賷賯丿賲 賱賳丕 賰賵賳賷鬲賾賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞貙 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 氐丿丕賯丞 兀賲鬲丿鬲 賱孬賱丕孬賷賳 毓丕賲賸丕 亘賷賳 賲賳 毓丕卮 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賵鬲噩賵賱 丨賵賱 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賵賲賳 賱賲 賷鬲丨乇賰 賲賳 賯乇賷鬲賴 丕賱噩亘賱賷丞 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞.
"丕爻鬲胤丕毓 賰賵賳賷鬲賾賷 兀賳 賷氐賵乇 丕賱賳卮賵賶 賵丕賱丨夭賳 丕賱賲氐丕丨亘丕賳 賱賱賵氐賵賱 廿賱賶 丕賱賯賲賲 丕賱乇丕卅毓丞貙 賮賯胤 賱賷賯賵丿賳丕 賱賳丿乇賰 囟丌賱丞 丕賱丿賵乇 丕賱匕賷 賳賱毓亘賴 賮賷 亘丕賳賵乇丕賲丕 丕賱丨賷丕丞" 噩乇賷丿丞 丕賱噩丕乇丿賷丕賳 丕賱廿賳噩賱賷夭賷丞.
賯丕賱 兀丨丿賴賲: 賱丕 賷噩亘 兀賳 賳鬲乇賰 賱兀亘賳丕卅賳丕 賮賯胤 丕賱丕賳噩丕夭丕鬲 賵丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱鬲賷 睾賷乇鬲 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賮賯胤貙 賵賱賰賳 賷噩亘 兀賳 賳爻噩賱 賱賴賲 兀賷囟賸丕 鬲賱賰 丕賱丨賰丕賷丕鬲 丕賱賷賵賲賷丞貙 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲卮乇丨 賱賴賲 賰賷賮 毓卮賳丕. 賵賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 丕賱亘爻賷胤丞 賵丕賱毓賲賷賯丞 賮賷 丌賳貙 賷賯丿賲 賱賳丕 賰賵賳賷鬲賾賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞貙 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 氐丿丕賯丞 兀賲鬲丿鬲 賱孬賱丕孬賷賳 毓丕賲賸丕 亘賷賳 賲賳 毓丕卮 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賵鬲噩賵賱 丨賵賱 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賵賲賳 賱賲 賷鬲丨乇賰 賲賳 賯乇賷鬲賴 丕賱噩亘賱賷丞 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞.
"丕爻鬲胤丕毓 賰賵賳賷鬲賾賷 兀賳 賷氐賵乇 丕賱賳卮賵賶 賵丕賱丨夭賳 丕賱賲氐丕丨亘丕賳 賱賱賵氐賵賱 廿賱賶 丕賱賯賲賲 丕賱乇丕卅毓丞貙 賮賯胤 賱賷賯賵丿賳丕 賱賳丿乇賰 囟丌賱丞 丕賱丿賵乇 丕賱匕賷 賳賱毓亘賴 賮賷 亘丕賳賵乇丕賲丕 丕賱丨賷丕丞" 噩乇賷丿丞 丕賱噩丕乇丿賷丕賳 丕賱廿賳噩賱賷夭賷丞.
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February 13, 2018
Bovenop de stapel boeken die ik heel goed vind, liggen er een paar die nog bijzonderder zijn dan de andere heel goede boeken. Naar die boeken ben ik ook nog eens hevig blijven verlangen terwijl ik iets anders moest doen, zoals eten of de mailbox te lijf gaan.
Vanochtend werd ik om halfzeven wakker. Ik had me nog een halfuur op mijn andere zij kunnen draaien, maar het was al te laat: ik had aan Paolo Cognetti鈥檚 鈥楧e acht bergen鈥� op het nachtkastje gedacht.
Met de slaap nog in mijn ogen knipte ik de bedlamp aan en verheugde me al op het weerzien. Het duurde maar een paar regels of ik bevond me in de berghut die door Pietro en zijn beste vriend Bruno van een bouwval in een bewoond huis is veranderd. De plek, die Pietro鈥檚 moeder en vader 鈥榖arma drola鈥� noemden, de 鈥榲reemde rots鈥� op tweeduizend meter hoogte, met uitzicht op een lager gelegen bergmeer en de zonnekant van het dal, is voor hen allebei van grote betekenis.
De laatste bladzijden van heel goede boeken waarnaar ik hevig ben blijven verlangen zijn de mooiste en de moeilijkste. Na de allerlaatste bladzijde word ik altijd getroffen door een soort verdriet, maar al gauw neemt dan het gevoel van voldoening de overhand, omdat ik nieuwe mensen heb leren kennen, in dit geval: een paar levens heb zien langskomen. Dan vind ik het weer schitterend, al dat vuur dat kan blijven smeulen.
Ik doe 鈥楧e acht bergen鈥� onrecht als ik het samenvat als een verhaal over een boezemvriendschap, over de erfenis die we van onze ouders krijgen, over het feit dat 鈥榥iemand voor anderen kan zorgen, voor jezelf zorgen is al een hele onderneming,鈥� zoals Bruno ergens zegt.
Wat namelijk niet samen te vatten of na te vertellen valt, is de manier waarop Cognetti leven tussen de bladzijden blaast. Hij zet de Italiaanse Alpen vanaf bladzijde een om je heen, laat het winter of lente worden in een dal of op een alm, stuurt je achter Pietro鈥檚 vader de puinhellingen op, en als de rotsen grommelen, dan begrijp je het gevaar. Deze schrijver krijgt de status van een tovenaar, want betoveren doet hij.
Na de laatste bladzijde van 鈥楧e acht bergen鈥� overkwam me wat me al heel lang niet meer overkomen is. Doordrongen van de winter van 2014, die in de Westerse Alpen een van de meest sneeuwrijke van de laatste vijftig jaar is geweest, en met Bruno en Pietro en Lara in gedachten liep ik vanochtend naar de keuken om koffie te zetten, en toen ik de hoek omkwam, bleef ik enigszins geschrokken staan. Achter het raam had ik de winter verwacht, een berglandschap, en ik dacht geen koffie te zetten als deel van mijn ochtendritueel, maar omdat ik van buiten kwam, koude handen had en me aan de kachel zou warmen.
鈥楧e acht bergen鈥� is uit het Italiaans vertaald door Yond Boeke en Patty Krone.
Deze bespreking en andere tips vindt u onder BLOG op .
Vanochtend werd ik om halfzeven wakker. Ik had me nog een halfuur op mijn andere zij kunnen draaien, maar het was al te laat: ik had aan Paolo Cognetti鈥檚 鈥楧e acht bergen鈥� op het nachtkastje gedacht.
Met de slaap nog in mijn ogen knipte ik de bedlamp aan en verheugde me al op het weerzien. Het duurde maar een paar regels of ik bevond me in de berghut die door Pietro en zijn beste vriend Bruno van een bouwval in een bewoond huis is veranderd. De plek, die Pietro鈥檚 moeder en vader 鈥榖arma drola鈥� noemden, de 鈥榲reemde rots鈥� op tweeduizend meter hoogte, met uitzicht op een lager gelegen bergmeer en de zonnekant van het dal, is voor hen allebei van grote betekenis.
De laatste bladzijden van heel goede boeken waarnaar ik hevig ben blijven verlangen zijn de mooiste en de moeilijkste. Na de allerlaatste bladzijde word ik altijd getroffen door een soort verdriet, maar al gauw neemt dan het gevoel van voldoening de overhand, omdat ik nieuwe mensen heb leren kennen, in dit geval: een paar levens heb zien langskomen. Dan vind ik het weer schitterend, al dat vuur dat kan blijven smeulen.
Ik doe 鈥楧e acht bergen鈥� onrecht als ik het samenvat als een verhaal over een boezemvriendschap, over de erfenis die we van onze ouders krijgen, over het feit dat 鈥榥iemand voor anderen kan zorgen, voor jezelf zorgen is al een hele onderneming,鈥� zoals Bruno ergens zegt.
Wat namelijk niet samen te vatten of na te vertellen valt, is de manier waarop Cognetti leven tussen de bladzijden blaast. Hij zet de Italiaanse Alpen vanaf bladzijde een om je heen, laat het winter of lente worden in een dal of op een alm, stuurt je achter Pietro鈥檚 vader de puinhellingen op, en als de rotsen grommelen, dan begrijp je het gevaar. Deze schrijver krijgt de status van een tovenaar, want betoveren doet hij.
Na de laatste bladzijde van 鈥楧e acht bergen鈥� overkwam me wat me al heel lang niet meer overkomen is. Doordrongen van de winter van 2014, die in de Westerse Alpen een van de meest sneeuwrijke van de laatste vijftig jaar is geweest, en met Bruno en Pietro en Lara in gedachten liep ik vanochtend naar de keuken om koffie te zetten, en toen ik de hoek omkwam, bleef ik enigszins geschrokken staan. Achter het raam had ik de winter verwacht, een berglandschap, en ik dacht geen koffie te zetten als deel van mijn ochtendritueel, maar omdat ik van buiten kwam, koude handen had en me aan de kachel zou warmen.
鈥楧e acht bergen鈥� is uit het Italiaans vertaald door Yond Boeke en Patty Krone.
Deze bespreking en andere tips vindt u onder BLOG op .
January 17, 2023
STORIA DI CHI FUGGE E DI CHI RESTA
L鈥檌mmagine sulla copertina del libro.
Qui si narra di un鈥檃micizia maschile che abbraccia tre decenni nella quale il narratore 猫 quello che gira il mondo, anche se si tiene lontano dallo studio cos矛 come l鈥檃mico montanaro.
Perfino la fine della storia potrebbe avere analogie con quell鈥檃ltra pi霉 celebre, ma non mi addentro per non incorrere in spoiler.
C鈥櫭� una figura genitoriale controversa e ostica, anche se qui man mano viene recuperata alla grande, il conflitto si stempera e trova il suo corso verso l鈥檃ccettazione.
Il tutto avviene al nord, e non al sud, come nell鈥檃ltra.
E qui per me le analogie si fermano.
Ma in realt脿 non sono neppure cominciate, ho soluto voluto partecipare a un gioco di societ脿.
Era come se, attaccando lo stesso vecchio sentiero una volta all鈥檃nno, si addentrasse tra i ricordi e risalisse il corso della propria memoria.
Cognetti voleva che questo romanzo (il suo primo vero romanzo, essendo Sofia si veste sempre di nero ancora una raccolta di racconti pur se con protagonista unica) fosse il suo personale Gente del Wyoming, il suo In mezzo scorre il fiume, e secondo me raggiunge l鈥檕biettivo e lo scopo prefisso.
[Per la cronaca, Cognetti dice che avrebbe voluto fosse anche il suo Due di due e Narciso e Boccadoro, ma io credo che i primi due riferimenti siano pi霉 degni del suo talento].
脠 un libro bello, per me molto bello. Senza se e senza ma. Non appartiene alla categoria 鈥榦 si ama o si odia鈥�, mi pare impossibile odiare un libro cos矛: si pu貌 non amarlo, come invece ho fatto io, o non amarlo cos矛 tanto com鈥櫭� successo a me, ma odiarlo mi sembra davvero impossibile.
脠 compatto nella sua breve estensione.
Parla una lingua levigata come i sassi arrotondati, smussati, lisciati dallo scorrere dell鈥檃cqua, asciutta e parsimoniosa, senza spreco di parole. Come non si sprecano passi per salire in cima alla montagna.
Una lingua semplice, risultato di vera conoscenza, di un lavoro stratificato (pure se nella citazione che riporto in basso Cognetti mi smentisce in pieno).
Non amo le montagne e ci vado raramente, ma Paolo Cognetti descrive un panorama interiore che mi suona familiare, in cui mi riconosco, perch茅 sa essere universale, sa accogliere e non escludere.
In questa storia maschile, dove i personaggi al centro del racconto sono tre uomini, un padre, il figlio e il suo amico, la figura femminile della mamma del narratore 猫 magnifica, spicca luminosa e profonda.
Ho trovato in questo Cognetti molteplicit脿 di lettura: sono pagine che propongono interpretazioni diverse, che offrono ampia scelta di chiavi di lettura, suggeriscono opzioni e alternative anche quando sembrano chiudersi tra due opposti, spaziano oltre la cima e al di l脿 del cerchio.
Qual 猫 la montagna pi霉 alta, la pi霉 ardua da salire, quella al centro del mandala, o le otto intorno al cerchio? Quella di Bruno o quelle di Pietro?
Il centro della storia 猫 l鈥檃micizia o il rapporto filiale?
Futuro e passato possono scambiarsi, essere a monte o a valle, a seconda che si segua il percorso dell鈥檃cqua o si assuma la prospettiva del pesce che cerca nutrimento.
Il dritto di una montagna 猫 il lato esposto al sole, il rovescio quello a nord che vive di luce riflessa. La casa che gli amici ricostruiscono affaccia all鈥�envers: scelta di vita?
Romanzo moderno e romanzo classico, che racconta dell鈥檕ggi e dello ieri.
Per arrivare in cima occorre un lungo tempo d鈥檃scensione: ma si rimane in vetta lo spazio di una sigaretta, e poi si torna a valle in meno della met脿 del tempo.
Muoversi in montagna richiede conoscenza: ma la vita di montagna non porta benessere.
Storia fisica e di avventure, ma impregnata di spiritualit脿.
Vicenda di viaggio e di staticit脿.
Centro e periferia.
Libert脿 del viaggio, del salire, dell鈥檈splorare, o prigione?
Potenza della natura che per貌 tutto rovina.
Occidente e Oriente.
Andare o restare. Partire o tornare.
Il dialogo, la comunicazione sembra passare soprattutto attraverso silenzi.
Il rapporto padre e figlio, la simbolica uccisione del padre 猫 la molla del viaggio, lo scatto verso la crescita, la morte che genera vita, la solitudine accomuna pi霉 dell鈥檃micizia, la famiglia non 猫 quella di sangue che ci genera ma 猫 grande quanto otto montagne...
Ecco alcune delle mie personali chiavi di lettura di questo breve ricco denso magnifico libro.
Variet脿 di possibilit脿. Sta a noi lettori scegliere.
Come nella migliore letteratura la soluzione non 猫 imposta, non 猫 certa, non sbarra il cammino e non blocca la vista.
Da tempo volevo scrivere una storia di montagna, di padri e figli e di amicizia maschile鈥apevo che ci sarebbe stata una montagna intorno alla mia storia, un padre all'inizio di tutto, e due amici al centro; e sapevo che il suo respiro sarebbe stato pi霉 ampio del solito, per i modelli che avevo in mente e per la scrittura che volevo ottenere鈥uesta storia 猫 uscita cos矛 com'猫, non ho riscritto quasi niente, non ho fatto prove ed errori, non ho buttato pagine su pagine, non mi sono mai sentito in crisi per non sapere dove andare, e a met脿 del lavoro ho addirittura abbandonato i miei amati quaderni perch茅 non servivano pi霉, potevo scrivere direttamente in bella. 脠 una sensazione magnifica quando succede cos矛. La scrittura esce dalle mani e non hai che da seguire la storia fino alla fine.
dal blog dell鈥檃utore, Capitano mio Capitano
L鈥檌mmagine sulla copertina del libro.
Qui si narra di un鈥檃micizia maschile che abbraccia tre decenni nella quale il narratore 猫 quello che gira il mondo, anche se si tiene lontano dallo studio cos矛 come l鈥檃mico montanaro.
Perfino la fine della storia potrebbe avere analogie con quell鈥檃ltra pi霉 celebre, ma non mi addentro per non incorrere in spoiler.
C鈥櫭� una figura genitoriale controversa e ostica, anche se qui man mano viene recuperata alla grande, il conflitto si stempera e trova il suo corso verso l鈥檃ccettazione.
Il tutto avviene al nord, e non al sud, come nell鈥檃ltra.
E qui per me le analogie si fermano.
Ma in realt脿 non sono neppure cominciate, ho soluto voluto partecipare a un gioco di societ脿.
Era come se, attaccando lo stesso vecchio sentiero una volta all鈥檃nno, si addentrasse tra i ricordi e risalisse il corso della propria memoria.
Cognetti voleva che questo romanzo (il suo primo vero romanzo, essendo Sofia si veste sempre di nero ancora una raccolta di racconti pur se con protagonista unica) fosse il suo personale Gente del Wyoming, il suo In mezzo scorre il fiume, e secondo me raggiunge l鈥檕biettivo e lo scopo prefisso.
[Per la cronaca, Cognetti dice che avrebbe voluto fosse anche il suo Due di due e Narciso e Boccadoro, ma io credo che i primi due riferimenti siano pi霉 degni del suo talento].
脠 un libro bello, per me molto bello. Senza se e senza ma. Non appartiene alla categoria 鈥榦 si ama o si odia鈥�, mi pare impossibile odiare un libro cos矛: si pu貌 non amarlo, come invece ho fatto io, o non amarlo cos矛 tanto com鈥櫭� successo a me, ma odiarlo mi sembra davvero impossibile.
脠 compatto nella sua breve estensione.
Parla una lingua levigata come i sassi arrotondati, smussati, lisciati dallo scorrere dell鈥檃cqua, asciutta e parsimoniosa, senza spreco di parole. Come non si sprecano passi per salire in cima alla montagna.
Una lingua semplice, risultato di vera conoscenza, di un lavoro stratificato (pure se nella citazione che riporto in basso Cognetti mi smentisce in pieno).
Non amo le montagne e ci vado raramente, ma Paolo Cognetti descrive un panorama interiore che mi suona familiare, in cui mi riconosco, perch茅 sa essere universale, sa accogliere e non escludere.
In questa storia maschile, dove i personaggi al centro del racconto sono tre uomini, un padre, il figlio e il suo amico, la figura femminile della mamma del narratore 猫 magnifica, spicca luminosa e profonda.
Ho trovato in questo Cognetti molteplicit脿 di lettura: sono pagine che propongono interpretazioni diverse, che offrono ampia scelta di chiavi di lettura, suggeriscono opzioni e alternative anche quando sembrano chiudersi tra due opposti, spaziano oltre la cima e al di l脿 del cerchio.
Qual 猫 la montagna pi霉 alta, la pi霉 ardua da salire, quella al centro del mandala, o le otto intorno al cerchio? Quella di Bruno o quelle di Pietro?
Il centro della storia 猫 l鈥檃micizia o il rapporto filiale?
Futuro e passato possono scambiarsi, essere a monte o a valle, a seconda che si segua il percorso dell鈥檃cqua o si assuma la prospettiva del pesce che cerca nutrimento.
Il dritto di una montagna 猫 il lato esposto al sole, il rovescio quello a nord che vive di luce riflessa. La casa che gli amici ricostruiscono affaccia all鈥�envers: scelta di vita?
Romanzo moderno e romanzo classico, che racconta dell鈥檕ggi e dello ieri.
Per arrivare in cima occorre un lungo tempo d鈥檃scensione: ma si rimane in vetta lo spazio di una sigaretta, e poi si torna a valle in meno della met脿 del tempo.
Muoversi in montagna richiede conoscenza: ma la vita di montagna non porta benessere.
Storia fisica e di avventure, ma impregnata di spiritualit脿.
Vicenda di viaggio e di staticit脿.
Centro e periferia.
Libert脿 del viaggio, del salire, dell鈥檈splorare, o prigione?
Potenza della natura che per貌 tutto rovina.
Occidente e Oriente.
Andare o restare. Partire o tornare.
Il dialogo, la comunicazione sembra passare soprattutto attraverso silenzi.
Il rapporto padre e figlio, la simbolica uccisione del padre 猫 la molla del viaggio, lo scatto verso la crescita, la morte che genera vita, la solitudine accomuna pi霉 dell鈥檃micizia, la famiglia non 猫 quella di sangue che ci genera ma 猫 grande quanto otto montagne...
Ecco alcune delle mie personali chiavi di lettura di questo breve ricco denso magnifico libro.
Variet脿 di possibilit脿. Sta a noi lettori scegliere.
Come nella migliore letteratura la soluzione non 猫 imposta, non 猫 certa, non sbarra il cammino e non blocca la vista.
Da tempo volevo scrivere una storia di montagna, di padri e figli e di amicizia maschile鈥apevo che ci sarebbe stata una montagna intorno alla mia storia, un padre all'inizio di tutto, e due amici al centro; e sapevo che il suo respiro sarebbe stato pi霉 ampio del solito, per i modelli che avevo in mente e per la scrittura che volevo ottenere鈥uesta storia 猫 uscita cos矛 com'猫, non ho riscritto quasi niente, non ho fatto prove ed errori, non ho buttato pagine su pagine, non mi sono mai sentito in crisi per non sapere dove andare, e a met脿 del lavoro ho addirittura abbandonato i miei amati quaderni perch茅 non servivano pi霉, potevo scrivere direttamente in bella. 脠 una sensazione magnifica quando succede cos矛. La scrittura esce dalle mani e non hai che da seguire la storia fino alla fine.
dal blog dell鈥檃utore, Capitano mio Capitano
March 21, 2022
Quiet, introspective, first person narrative, things that I am always drawn to in a book, combined with beautiful writing that had me highlighting passages right from the start. This along with characters I cared about made for a five star book for me . The mountains, the Dolomites in northern Italy and later the Himalayas, the landscape that affects the landscape of the lives of the characters both individually and in their relationships with each other . Husband and wife, father and son , two young boys forging a friendship and a bond that remains unbreakable in spite of years of separation. Pietro, raised in Milan, doesn鈥檛 always understand the pull of the mountains on his father, or the hold that they have on his friend Bruno. It is years later after his father鈥檚 death that Pietro connects with his father, with Bruno鈥檚 help . It is when he experiences the pull of the mountains and learns his father鈥檚 story that father and son become bound in a way that is poignant and heartbreaking. A beautifully written story. A short book and a short review, but a book full of depth of loss, friendship and love.
I received an advanced copy of this book from Atria through NetGalley.
September 3, 2023
A great story of two boys, a city boy and a country boy, growing up in the dolomite mountains in northern Italy - the Italian Alps. This book won the 2017 Strega Prize, Italy鈥檚 highest literary honor.
The city boy lives in Milan but spends summers with his parents in the mountains. They turn him loose and every year he spends his time with a local farm boy who shows him another side of life exploring the mountains and rummaging through abandoned buildings.
The city boy鈥檚 father is a Type-A who 鈥渃onquers鈥� mountains and takes his son with him. With him, it鈥檚 all about distance, endurance and speed. They don鈥檛 climb mountains in the sense of using ropes and pitons; rather they take day-long hikes, sometimes with the farm boy when he鈥檚 free from his incessant chores. We鈥檙e told the boys were 11 in 1984, so that gives us an idea of the time frame of the coming-of-age part of the novel. Later chapters follow the boys into adulthood.
I鈥檒l put my wrap-up paragraphs next so the spoilers that follow are at the end of my review.
I liked the story 鈥� it鈥檚 a bit like a travelog and talks a lot about nature so, theme-wise, it reminds me a lot of Thoreau鈥檚 work like Cape Cod or A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. And a lot is about solitude.
The mountains are featured so much, they are like characters in the novel. I鈥檝e described this type of book in other reviews as an 鈥渆nvironmental novel.鈥� The best example I think of is Annie Proulx鈥檚 novel The Shipping News where her characters seem to be small specks against the giant backdrop of rock, sea and storms in Newfoundland. Man and woman against nature. Interestingly, Annie Proulx wrote the blurb that is featured on the cover of my edition of The Eight Mountains!
SPOILERS FOLLOW
A good story. I鈥檓 giving it a 鈥�5鈥� and adding it to my favorites.
The Italian author (B. 1978) has written a half-dozen novels but this appears to be the only one translated into English. It's his best-know work on GR and relatively highly rated at 4.1. The author also produces documentaries. He lives in the Italian mountains alone for several months each year.
The Italian Alps from britannica.com
The author's mountain chalet from culturaal.com
The author from penguin.com.au
[Edited for clarity and typos 1/12/22 and 9/3/23]
The city boy lives in Milan but spends summers with his parents in the mountains. They turn him loose and every year he spends his time with a local farm boy who shows him another side of life exploring the mountains and rummaging through abandoned buildings.
The city boy鈥檚 father is a Type-A who 鈥渃onquers鈥� mountains and takes his son with him. With him, it鈥檚 all about distance, endurance and speed. They don鈥檛 climb mountains in the sense of using ropes and pitons; rather they take day-long hikes, sometimes with the farm boy when he鈥檚 free from his incessant chores. We鈥檙e told the boys were 11 in 1984, so that gives us an idea of the time frame of the coming-of-age part of the novel. Later chapters follow the boys into adulthood.
I鈥檒l put my wrap-up paragraphs next so the spoilers that follow are at the end of my review.
I liked the story 鈥� it鈥檚 a bit like a travelog and talks a lot about nature so, theme-wise, it reminds me a lot of Thoreau鈥檚 work like Cape Cod or A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. And a lot is about solitude.
The mountains are featured so much, they are like characters in the novel. I鈥檝e described this type of book in other reviews as an 鈥渆nvironmental novel.鈥� The best example I think of is Annie Proulx鈥檚 novel The Shipping News where her characters seem to be small specks against the giant backdrop of rock, sea and storms in Newfoundland. Man and woman against nature. Interestingly, Annie Proulx wrote the blurb that is featured on the cover of my edition of The Eight Mountains!
SPOILERS FOLLOW
A good story. I鈥檓 giving it a 鈥�5鈥� and adding it to my favorites.
The Italian author (B. 1978) has written a half-dozen novels but this appears to be the only one translated into English. It's his best-know work on GR and relatively highly rated at 4.1. The author also produces documentaries. He lives in the Italian mountains alone for several months each year.
The Italian Alps from britannica.com
The author's mountain chalet from culturaal.com
The author from penguin.com.au
[Edited for clarity and typos 1/12/22 and 9/3/23]
March 19, 2018
I will struggle with this review because the small novel did not say anything to me. I did not feel anything, only a bit of impatience to finish so I can read something else. I cannot fault the Paolo Cognetti, the novel felt well written and the story, of 2 friends who found themselves in the mountains, should have been endearing. Only that it wasn鈥檛 for me. Maybe if I loved mountains more and had warm memories of trekking, I would have enjoyed this more. I like the look of mountains and being on top of them but I prefer getting there by car. I admit I am not a fan of climbing. The main character isn鈥檛 either so I should have sympathized with him. Only that I didn鈥檛 care about him at all.
This is the story of two friends, Pietro and Bruno. They meet when Pietro鈥檚 parents rent a cottage in the mountains, in a small forgotten village. Bruno is the only child in the village and the two children soon begin to spend time together. Each year, Pietro and his mum (and sometimes the dad) spend the summer holidays in this village and the friendship is resumed. When Pietro grows up, he stops visiting and tries to make his life away from his parents in Milan and the mountains. However, he will return to the village due to an unpleasant circumstance and he will get the chance to spend more time with his old friend. It is a simple story, of joy of life and the beauty of friendship but, as I said, it failed to touch me, do not know exactly why.
Thanks to Netgalley and Random House UK, Vintage Publishing for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This is the story of two friends, Pietro and Bruno. They meet when Pietro鈥檚 parents rent a cottage in the mountains, in a small forgotten village. Bruno is the only child in the village and the two children soon begin to spend time together. Each year, Pietro and his mum (and sometimes the dad) spend the summer holidays in this village and the friendship is resumed. When Pietro grows up, he stops visiting and tries to make his life away from his parents in Milan and the mountains. However, he will return to the village due to an unpleasant circumstance and he will get the chance to spend more time with his old friend. It is a simple story, of joy of life and the beauty of friendship but, as I said, it failed to touch me, do not know exactly why.
Thanks to Netgalley and Random House UK, Vintage Publishing for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
May 20, 2025
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丕賱賱睾丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳胤賵賾毓賴丕 賱氐毓賵丿賳丕 丕賱賵噩賵丿賷 亘賲卮丕毓乇賳丕 賵兀賮賰丕乇賳丕 賵丕賰鬲卮丕賮丕鬲賳丕 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞
丕賱噩賲丕賱 丕賱匕賷 賷丨乇賰賳丕 賱廿賳噩丕夭 匕丕鬲賳丕 丕賱賰丕賲賳丞 丕賱毓賲賷賯丞 丕賱噩丕乇賷丞 賰賳賴乇 禺賱賮 氐禺賵乇 丕賱兀賱賮丞
賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賷賰賵賳 賱賳丕 卮賷亍 賳鬲毓賱賾賯 亘賴
卮禺氐 賳噩丿 賵噩賵丿賳丕 賮賷 賱賯丕卅賴
賲賰丕賳 賲孬賱 賲賵囟毓 賮賷 噩亘賱 爻丕賲賯 賲賲鬲丿
賷鬲爻丕賯胤 丕賱賵賯鬲 賲賳 兀毓賱丕賴
賲賳 丕賱賲爻鬲賯亘賱 賱賷丨鬲囟賳賴 丕賱賲丕囟賷
賰禺夭丕賳丞 卮毓賵乇賷丞 賱毓賱丕賯鬲丕鬲賳丕 亘丕賱賰賵賳
賳爻鬲丿毓賷賴 賵丨丿賳丕 賵賳爻鬲賯胤乇 毓亘賷乇 鬲賰賵賷賳賳丕
賮賳爻鬲禺賱氐 毓胤乇 丕賱丨亘 賲賳 匕賰乇賶 丨亘賷亘
賵賳胤賱賯賴 賮賷 禺賷胤 丕賱爻乇丿 丕賱毓丕賱賯
亘丕賱賯賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 賳毓賱賲 賲賳 賵氐賱 廿賱賷賴丕
賮賰賱 丕賱丌孬丕乇 丕賱鬲賷 兀賱賯丕賴丕 丕賱氐丕毓丿賵賳 賮賷 丕賱胤乇賷賯
鬲賳賯胤毓 亘毓丿 丕禺鬲賮丕亍 兀氐丨丕亘賴丕
丨賷賳 賷噩丿賵賳 丕賱胤乇賷賯 賳丨賵 丕賱賯賲賲
賮賰乇丞 鬲匕賰賾乇賳賷 亘賲鬲賵賳 丕賱兀賴乇丕賲 賱賱睾賷胤丕賳賷
賵賳賴丕賷丞 賲氐胤賮賶 爻毓賷丿 賮賷 賲賵爻賲 丕賱賴噩乇丞 廿賱賶 丕賱卮賲丕賱
賱賰賳 丕賱兀孬乇 毓賳丿 亘丕賵賱賵 賰賵賳賷鬲賷
賷馗賱 賲毓賱賯丕 亘丨亘賱 賱賲 賷賲爻賴 爻賵賶 丕孬賳賷賳
丕賱賲賯賷賲 丕賱匕賷 毓亘乇 賵丕賱毓丕亘乇 丕賱匕賷 兀賯丕賲 氐丿賷賯賴 賮賷 賮賷 賯賱亘賴 丕賱卮丕賴賯
乇賵丕賷丞 氐丿賷賯丞 賱賱匕丕賰乇丞 鬲馗賱 鬲賵賲囟 賮賷 賲乇鬲賮毓丕鬲 賲賲鬲丿丞 亘賷賳 丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱爻胤丨賷 賵丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱賲鬲禺賮賷 賮賷 丕賱賰賴賮 丕賱亘毓賷丿
鬲丨賯賯 賲毓丕丿賱丞 丕賱賲夭噩 丕賱乇丕卅賯 丕賱氐丕賮賷 亘賷賳 丕賱賯氐丞 賵丕賱爻乇丿 賵丕賱兀賮賰丕乇
禺胤 兀亘賷囟 賴賳丕 鬲亘丿兀 丕賱丨賷丕丞
賲毓 賰賱 賲賷乇丕孬賳丕 丕賱噩賷賳賷 賵丕賱亘賷卅賷 賳丨賳 賮賷 丿乇噩丞 丕賱氐賮乇
賲乇鬲賮毓丕鬲 兀賲丕賲賳丕 鬲乇丕賵丿 丕賱亘氐乇 賵鬲睾夭賵 丕賱禺賷丕賱
鬲賳丕丿賷賳丕 鬲噩丕乇亘 賰賳丿丕賴丞 鬲禺乇噩 賲賳 賳賴乇 丕賱丨賵丕丿賷鬲
丕賱賳賴乇 賷乇鬲賮毓 賮賷 賲爻丕乇 卮丕賴賯
賷氐亘丨 噩亘丕賱丕 賲乇爻賵賲丞 亘睾賲賵囟 丿賯賷賯
亘丿丕禺賱賴丕 胤乇賯 睾賷乇 賲賲賴丿丞 賲毓 賰孬乇丞 賲賳 賲乇賵丕 賮賷 噩爻丿賴丕 丕賱氐禺乇賷 丕賱匕賷 賰孬賷乇丕 賲丕 丕賳賴丕乇
賱賷賳夭賱 廿賱賶 丕賱賳賴乇 丕賱爻丨乇賷
賳氐毓丿 賵賳鬲卮亘孬 賵賳賯賮 賵賳賵丕氐賱 賵賳賰鬲亘 兀爻賲丕亍賳丕
賵賳乇賵賷 匕賰乇賷丕鬲賳丕
兀爻乇丕乇賳丕 丕賱鬲賷 賱賲 鬲禺乇噩 丨鬲賶 亘賷賳賳丕
賱毓亘丞 鬲丿乇亘賳丕 毓賱賷賴丕 賲毓 丕賱丌亘丕亍
賵丕禺鬲丕乇 兀氐丿賯丕丐賳丕 禺胤胤 丌亘丕卅賳丕
賵丕禺鬲乇賳丕 毓丕賱賲丕 賷噩賲毓賳丕 亘賴賲 亘毓賷丿丕 毓賳 賲鬲丕賴丞 丕賱乇丨賱丞
賴賳丕賰 賮賷 賲卮丕毓乇賳丕 賲賳丕亘毓 鬲噩乇賷 鬲丨鬲 丕賱賱丨馗丕鬲 丕賱賲鬲毓賱賾賯丞 亘氐禺賵乇 丕賱賵賯鬲
乇賰丕賲 丕賱孬賱噩 賷賳賴丕乇 廿賱賶 兀爻賮賱 賵丕賱夭賲賳 賷賳氐亘 賲賳 毓賱 亘賲亘丕賴噩 賵兀丨夭丕賳
賴賳丕 賱賲 賷毓乇賮 丕賱丌禺乇賵賳 賲丕 毓乇賮賳丕賴
賱賲 賷乇賵丕 賲丕 賳乇丕賴
賱賲 賷賱鬲賯胤賵丕 廿卮丕乇丕鬲 丕賱氐賷賮 賵丕賱卮鬲丕亍
賱賲 賷禺乇噩賵丕 賮賷 乇丨丕賱丕鬲賳丕 丕賱氐丕毓丿丞
賱賲 賷氐賳毓賵丕 亘賷鬲丕 賲孬賱 亘賷鬲賳丕 賮賷 賯賱亘 丕賱兀賱亘
賵賮賷 丕賱賴賷賲丕賱丕賷丕 賰賳丕 賳禺丕胤亘賴賲 賵賰兀賳賳丕 賴賳丕賰
乇賵丕賷丞 賱賳 鬲賳爻丕賴丕
廿匕丕 賰丕賳 丕賱毓賯賾丕丿 賷乇賶 兀賳 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞 鬲賲賳丨賴 丨賷賵丕鬲 廿囟丕賮賷丞
賮丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 鬲賲賳丨賳丕 氐賳丕毓丞 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞 賮賷 賳爻賷噩 丕賱噩賲丕賱
丕賱賲亘丿毓 賷爻鬲禺賱氐 賲賳 賳賮爻賴 卮禺氐賷丞 賷鬲賲賳賾丕賴丕
賷鬲乇賰賴丕 賵賷毓賵丿 廿賱賷賴丕 丨賷賳 賷賮鬲賯丿 丕賱賲賵丿丞 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲
賮賷 丕賱賵賯鬲 匕丕鬲賴 賷賲賳丨 賳賮爻賴 氐賷睾丞 兀禺乇賶 賱賱鬲毓丕賷卮 丕賱卮毓賵乇賷 丕賱乇丕卅毓
丨賷賳 鬲鬲卮賰賾賱 賱賴 賴賵賷賾丞 鬲賳丕爻亘 賵噩賵丿賴 賲毓 丕賱丌禺乇 丕賱匕賷 鬲禺賷賾賱賴
爻賷馗賱 亘賷鬲乇賵 賵亘乇賵賳賵 氐賵乇鬲賷賳 賲賳 賯賱亘 亘丕賵賱賵 賰賵賳賷賾鬲賷
丕賱賲賯賷賲 賮賷 丕賱噩亘丕賱
賵丕賱毓丕亘乇 廿賱賷賴丕
賵賷亘賯賶 丕賱乇賲夭 賴賳丕賰 賮賷 兀賳賴丕乇 鬲丨鬲 丕賱氐禺賵乇
鬲丨賲賱 丕賱兀爻乇丕乇 丕賱鬲賷 鬲乇賰鬲賴丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮賷 亘賳賷鬲賴丕 丕賱爻乇丿賷丞 丕賱噩亘賱賷丞 丕賱氐丕毓丿丞
丕賱鬲賷 丕鬲禺匕鬲 賳爻賯丕 賲毓乇賮賷丕 賲賳 乇賯丞 丕賱氐賱丕亘丞 丕賱賲丕賳丨丞 賮賷 丕賱賳賮賵爻 賵丕賱胤亘賷毓丞
乇丕卅毓 兀賳 賷賱賲爻 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賲爻丕丨丕鬲 賰丕賳鬲 卮亘賴 賮丕乇睾丞 賮賷 兀匕賴丕賳賳丕
兀賳 賷賱賯賷 丕賱囟賵亍 毓賱賶 氐賲鬲 丕賱毓賱丕賯丕鬲 丕賱孬乇賷丞
丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 鬲賯鬲賳毓 亘丕賱爻匕丕噩丞 丕賱睾丕賮賱丞
賮鬲囟乇亘 賮賷 賰乇丕爻丞 乇爻賲 丕賱賲丿乇賰丕鬲
禺胤賵胤丕 賱丨乇賰丞 丕賱賲卮丕毓乇 丕賱賴丕卅賲丞
賵丕賱兀賮賰丕乇 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳賵 氐睾賷乇丞
賮鬲氐亘丨 卮噩乇丞 賮賷 丿賵乇丕賳 兀噩賵丕卅賳丕
丕賱鬲賷 丕鬲禺匕鬲 賲賳 賱賵丨丞 丕賱氐毓賵丿 賲噩丕賱丕 賱賲爻丕乇丕鬲 賲毓賯丿丞
鬲賰孬乇 亘賴丕 丕賱賲賳丨賳賷丕鬲 賵丕賱賲賳丨丿乇丕鬲
丕賱賲噩丕夭 丕賱丨賷賵賷 丕賱卮丕賴賯 丕賱賲丕孬賱 賮賷 禺賷丕賱 丿丕卅乇賷 賲丨賷胤
賷胤乇丨 兀賲丕賲賳丕 賲丨乇賰丕 賱賲鬲賵丕賱賷丕鬲 丕賱賲丿乇賰丕鬲 丕賱賲鬲卮丕亘賰丞
丕賱乇丐賶 賱賷爻鬲 賲丨丿丿丞 賲爻亘賯丕 賵賮賯丕 賱賲賯賷丕爻 乇爻賲 禺乇賷胤丞 賵噩賵丿賳丕 丕賱乇賵丨賷
廿賳賳丕 鬲爻鬲賰卮賮 賲賱丕賲丨賴丕 賮賷 兀毓賵丕賲 胤賵賷賱丞
丨丕賮賱丞 亘丕賱賲丿 賵丕賱噩夭乇 賵賳丨賳 賳乇賯賶 賮賷 爻亘賱 丕賱賲毓乇賮丞
兀賷賴丕 丕賱氐丿賷賯 丕賱噩丿賷丿 丕賱賲乇鬲賯賷 噩亘賱 丕賱爻乇丿
賱賯丿 賲賳丨鬲賳丕 賱賵丨丞 賷鬲毓賱賾賯 亘賴丕 賵毓賷賳丕
賵賴賵 賷賱賲 亘兀亘噩丿賷丞 丕賱噩賲丕賱
丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 氐毓賵丿 噩亘賱 賱賴 鬲毓丕乇賷噩賴 賵賲賳丨賳賷丕鬲賴
丕賱爻乇丿 賱賴 胤乇賯 鬲毓賱賵 亘丕賱丨丿孬 賵鬲鬲賵睾賱 賮賷 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞
賵鬲賯賷賲 丨亘丕賱丕 鬲氐賱 丕賱丿丕禺賱 亘丕賱禺丕乇噩
賵鬲賳賯賱 賲卮丕毓乇 丕賱賲禺賷賾賱丞 賵鬲氐賵賾乇丕鬲 丕賱匕賴賳
賱賱賰賱賲丕鬲 丕賱賲爻丕毓丿丞 毓賱賶 丕賱鬲賲爻賾賰 亘丕賱丕爻鬲賲乇丕乇
賵丕賱丕賳鬲賯丕賱 亘賷賳 丕賱兀丨賵丕賱 賵丕賱兀賮賰丕乇
孬賲丕賳賷丞 噩亘丕賱 賷氐毓丿賴丕 丕賱賰丕鬲亘
丕賱卮賰賱 亘丨賰丕賷鬲賴 賵乇賵丕亘胤賴 賵氐賵乇賴 賵氐賷睾賴
賵丕賱賲毓賳賶 亘丿賯丕卅賯賴 賵丕爻鬲賳亘丕胤賴 賲賳 丕賱卮賰賱 賵賵囟賵丨賴 賵丕丨鬲賲丕賱丕鬲賴 丕賱睾丕賲囟丞
丕賱賳賮爻 丕賱賲鬲丿賮賯丞 丕賱丿丕賮毓丞 丕賱賲賱賴賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓賱賳 毓賳 胤丕賯鬲賴丕 賵鬲賮毓賾賱 賵噩賵丿賴丕
丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 匕丕賰 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱丨丕賮賱 丕賱匕賷 賷爻鬲賵毓亘賳丕 賮賷 噩爻丿賴 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賵賳爻鬲賵毓亘賴 賮賷 賲毓噩賲賳丕 丕賱廿卮丕乇賷
丕賱丌禺乇 丕賱匕賷 賷卮丕乇賰賳丕 丕賱丌賳 賵丕賱賲賰丕賳 賵丕賱賱爻丕賳 賵賳爻毓賶 賱鬲賱丕賲爻 乇賵丨賷 賮賷 兀乇囟 賳毓乇賮賴丕 亘丿乇噩丞 賲丕
丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 丕賱亘毓賷丿 丕賱匕賷 賱賲 賳乇賴 賵賱賲 賷乇賳丕 賵爻鬲氐賱賴 禺乇賷胤丞 賵噩賵丿賳丕 丕賱乇賵丨賷 亘賱睾丞 兀禺乇賶 賮賷 夭賲丕賳 賲賲鬲丿
丕賱賱睾丞 丕賱鬲賷 賳胤賵賾毓賴丕 賱氐毓賵丿賳丕 丕賱賵噩賵丿賷 亘賲卮丕毓乇賳丕 賵兀賮賰丕乇賳丕 賵丕賰鬲卮丕賮丕鬲賳丕 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞
丕賱噩賲丕賱 丕賱匕賷 賷丨乇賰賳丕 賱廿賳噩丕夭 匕丕鬲賳丕 丕賱賰丕賲賳丞 丕賱毓賲賷賯丞 丕賱噩丕乇賷丞 賰賳賴乇 禺賱賮 氐禺賵乇 丕賱兀賱賮丞
賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賷賰賵賳 賱賳丕 卮賷亍 賳鬲毓賱賾賯 亘賴
卮禺氐 賳噩丿 賵噩賵丿賳丕 賮賷 賱賯丕卅賴
賲賰丕賳 賲孬賱 賲賵囟毓 賮賷 噩亘賱 爻丕賲賯 賲賲鬲丿
賷鬲爻丕賯胤 丕賱賵賯鬲 賲賳 兀毓賱丕賴
賲賳 丕賱賲爻鬲賯亘賱 賱賷丨鬲囟賳賴 丕賱賲丕囟賷
賰禺夭丕賳丞 卮毓賵乇賷丞 賱毓賱丕賯鬲丕鬲賳丕 亘丕賱賰賵賳
賳爻鬲丿毓賷賴 賵丨丿賳丕 賵賳爻鬲賯胤乇 毓亘賷乇 鬲賰賵賷賳賳丕
賮賳爻鬲禺賱氐 毓胤乇 丕賱丨亘 賲賳 匕賰乇賶 丨亘賷亘
賵賳胤賱賯賴 賮賷 禺賷胤 丕賱爻乇丿 丕賱毓丕賱賯
亘丕賱賯賲丞 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 賳毓賱賲 賲賳 賵氐賱 廿賱賷賴丕
賮賰賱 丕賱丌孬丕乇 丕賱鬲賷 兀賱賯丕賴丕 丕賱氐丕毓丿賵賳 賮賷 丕賱胤乇賷賯
鬲賳賯胤毓 亘毓丿 丕禺鬲賮丕亍 兀氐丨丕亘賴丕
丨賷賳 賷噩丿賵賳 丕賱胤乇賷賯 賳丨賵 丕賱賯賲賲
賮賰乇丞 鬲匕賰賾乇賳賷 亘賲鬲賵賳 丕賱兀賴乇丕賲 賱賱睾賷胤丕賳賷
賵賳賴丕賷丞 賲氐胤賮賶 爻毓賷丿 賮賷 賲賵爻賲 丕賱賴噩乇丞 廿賱賶 丕賱卮賲丕賱
賱賰賳 丕賱兀孬乇 毓賳丿 亘丕賵賱賵 賰賵賳賷鬲賷
賷馗賱 賲毓賱賯丕 亘丨亘賱 賱賲 賷賲爻賴 爻賵賶 丕孬賳賷賳
丕賱賲賯賷賲 丕賱匕賷 毓亘乇 賵丕賱毓丕亘乇 丕賱匕賷 兀賯丕賲 氐丿賷賯賴 賮賷 賮賷 賯賱亘賴 丕賱卮丕賴賯
January 15, 2022
鈥淲e believe that at the center of the earth there is a tremendously high mountain, Sumeru. Around Sumeru there are eight mountains and eight seas. This is the world for us.鈥�
A very subtle, quiet and meditative work of Italian contemporary fiction, won both Italy鈥檚 Premio Strega and the French Prix M茅dicis 茅tranger prize.
It is a book for lovers of descriptive, but not overly lyrical nature-writing, and even though 鈥檚 writing does not revolve around nature, Cognetti has a writing style somewhat similar to her in strong, but not overwritten, simple, a bit withdrawn sentences. This is a book for readers who like to sink into a calm, reflective state while reading the melancholic book with vivid imagery, not a book for readers who read for plot and action-packed fast pacing.
The story is told through the first-person narration of the main character Pietro, a lonely boy from Milan. His parents are becoming more and more distant and the only thing that connects them as a family is their love for the mountains that surround Italy. Every summer they go to Italian Alps, and there Pietro forms a friendship with an adventurous local boy Bruno, a relationship that makes him feel less alone in an estranged family. A lot of the book is about coming of age and male friendship, but the determining factor in life and future for both Pietro and Bruno is their relationship with their fathers.
Bruno鈥檚 father sets Bruno's future by not allowing him to continue with his education, inevitably tying his fate with a mountain. And Pietro is haunted by their relationship with his father rest of his life in a notion similar to what described in . Pietro鈥檚 father is an authoritarian, detached, irascible and rigid person, enamored with the solitude he finds through hiking, with who Pietro forms his relationship solely through exploring the mountains鈥� meadows and peaks. Pietro's father has some traits of schizoid personality structure and mountain climbing is the only way Pietro can get a glimpse of his father, and the only coldness of the mountain is the only place where the coldness of father melts and where Pietro can see his father as a warm and loving person.
鈥淗e was only partly the man that I knew, and partly another鈥攖he one that I was discovering through my mother鈥檚 letters. I was intrigued by this other side to him. It brought to mind a certain fragility that I had only glimpsed before, certain moments of confusion which he would immediately attempt to conceal. When I would lean out over a rock and he would instinctively make a grab for my trouser belt. When I was sick on the glacier and he would be more worried about it than I was myself. It occurred to me that perhaps this other father had always been there at my side, and that I had failed to notice him, however difficult the first one was; and I began to think that in the future I should鈥攐r could鈥攎ake an attempt to build bridges with him.鈥�
After his father's death, he becomes even more attached to the mountains, spreading his trips around the world, on the great eight peaks. For Pietro, who becomes unable to form a warm loving relationship with a woman, mountains become the symbol of consolation and love, the only source through which he can connect with his father and the medium to get to the place in himself he finds tolerable. His bond to nature tightens as his fate is inescapably tied to the fate of his father, and therefore to the mountains.
"And I knew once and for all that I had two fathers: the first had been the stranger with whom I had lived for twenty years in the city, and then burnt my bridges with for another ten; the second was my father as he was in the mountains, the one I had only glimpsed but still knew better than the first: the man who walked behind me on the paths, the lover of glaciers. This other father had left me a ruin to rebuild. So I decided to forget all about the first, and to complete that work to remember him by.鈥�
In a quest for better understanding and connecting to the father after his death, Pietro becomes his mirror image. A lot of underlying themes have to do with the great importance of which the psychological functioning of our parents has on our lives, as we are on one hand set to repeat their emotional patterns. Like his father, Piero becomes a stubborn man, unable to freely express his emotions, and his feelings are inseparably entailed to the mountains, as he can conduct conversations with his soul only in mountain massifs. Sometimes, a man can only find himself in the solitude of nature.
鈥淭he lake was a nocturnal sky in motion; the wind was pushing flurries of small waves from one side to another, and as it changed direction it extinguished and rekindled along its lines of force the gleams of stars reflected in the black water. I stood still, watching these patterns. It seemed to me to recall the life of the mountain before mankind. I did not disturb it; I was a welcome guest. I realized again that in this company I would never be alone.鈥�
The influence of the philosphy of transcendentalism is also evident but Cognetti has done an interesting thing in the characterization of the main figures of the story. The portrait of the characters is almost completely done through learning about the quality of relationship that characters have with nature, and the mountain is oftentimes a bridge and the point of connection of our protagonists. The reflection on nature is used to dive into the introspection and learn about the desires, fears, longing and motives of characters. The restrained voice of the first person narration correlates perfectly with the personality traits of the main character. The psychological profile of the characters is intentionally unfinished because there is a lot of emotional distancing and inability to express emotions in the characters and it determines the fact we can鈥檛 explore them outside the mountain, the only point of their partial opening to feelings. That is why the narrative is a bit disjointed, as characters don't exist to a reader when they are not under the auspices of the mountains.
Exploring the meaning of the intricate relationship of men with nature, Cognetti created a heartwarming story. I don't know to which extent is the story autobiographical, but Cognetti himself has a strong bond with mountains and as the main character of the story, spends his time in between the city and his residence in Italian Alps.
Recommended to misfits, loners, individualists, transcendentalists and lovers of mountains.
A very subtle, quiet and meditative work of Italian contemporary fiction, won both Italy鈥檚 Premio Strega and the French Prix M茅dicis 茅tranger prize.
It is a book for lovers of descriptive, but not overly lyrical nature-writing, and even though 鈥檚 writing does not revolve around nature, Cognetti has a writing style somewhat similar to her in strong, but not overwritten, simple, a bit withdrawn sentences. This is a book for readers who like to sink into a calm, reflective state while reading the melancholic book with vivid imagery, not a book for readers who read for plot and action-packed fast pacing.
The story is told through the first-person narration of the main character Pietro, a lonely boy from Milan. His parents are becoming more and more distant and the only thing that connects them as a family is their love for the mountains that surround Italy. Every summer they go to Italian Alps, and there Pietro forms a friendship with an adventurous local boy Bruno, a relationship that makes him feel less alone in an estranged family. A lot of the book is about coming of age and male friendship, but the determining factor in life and future for both Pietro and Bruno is their relationship with their fathers.
Bruno鈥檚 father sets Bruno's future by not allowing him to continue with his education, inevitably tying his fate with a mountain. And Pietro is haunted by their relationship with his father rest of his life in a notion similar to what described in . Pietro鈥檚 father is an authoritarian, detached, irascible and rigid person, enamored with the solitude he finds through hiking, with who Pietro forms his relationship solely through exploring the mountains鈥� meadows and peaks. Pietro's father has some traits of schizoid personality structure and mountain climbing is the only way Pietro can get a glimpse of his father, and the only coldness of the mountain is the only place where the coldness of father melts and where Pietro can see his father as a warm and loving person.
鈥淗e was only partly the man that I knew, and partly another鈥攖he one that I was discovering through my mother鈥檚 letters. I was intrigued by this other side to him. It brought to mind a certain fragility that I had only glimpsed before, certain moments of confusion which he would immediately attempt to conceal. When I would lean out over a rock and he would instinctively make a grab for my trouser belt. When I was sick on the glacier and he would be more worried about it than I was myself. It occurred to me that perhaps this other father had always been there at my side, and that I had failed to notice him, however difficult the first one was; and I began to think that in the future I should鈥攐r could鈥攎ake an attempt to build bridges with him.鈥�
After his father's death, he becomes even more attached to the mountains, spreading his trips around the world, on the great eight peaks. For Pietro, who becomes unable to form a warm loving relationship with a woman, mountains become the symbol of consolation and love, the only source through which he can connect with his father and the medium to get to the place in himself he finds tolerable. His bond to nature tightens as his fate is inescapably tied to the fate of his father, and therefore to the mountains.
"And I knew once and for all that I had two fathers: the first had been the stranger with whom I had lived for twenty years in the city, and then burnt my bridges with for another ten; the second was my father as he was in the mountains, the one I had only glimpsed but still knew better than the first: the man who walked behind me on the paths, the lover of glaciers. This other father had left me a ruin to rebuild. So I decided to forget all about the first, and to complete that work to remember him by.鈥�
In a quest for better understanding and connecting to the father after his death, Pietro becomes his mirror image. A lot of underlying themes have to do with the great importance of which the psychological functioning of our parents has on our lives, as we are on one hand set to repeat their emotional patterns. Like his father, Piero becomes a stubborn man, unable to freely express his emotions, and his feelings are inseparably entailed to the mountains, as he can conduct conversations with his soul only in mountain massifs. Sometimes, a man can only find himself in the solitude of nature.
鈥淭he lake was a nocturnal sky in motion; the wind was pushing flurries of small waves from one side to another, and as it changed direction it extinguished and rekindled along its lines of force the gleams of stars reflected in the black water. I stood still, watching these patterns. It seemed to me to recall the life of the mountain before mankind. I did not disturb it; I was a welcome guest. I realized again that in this company I would never be alone.鈥�
The influence of the philosphy of transcendentalism is also evident but Cognetti has done an interesting thing in the characterization of the main figures of the story. The portrait of the characters is almost completely done through learning about the quality of relationship that characters have with nature, and the mountain is oftentimes a bridge and the point of connection of our protagonists. The reflection on nature is used to dive into the introspection and learn about the desires, fears, longing and motives of characters. The restrained voice of the first person narration correlates perfectly with the personality traits of the main character. The psychological profile of the characters is intentionally unfinished because there is a lot of emotional distancing and inability to express emotions in the characters and it determines the fact we can鈥檛 explore them outside the mountain, the only point of their partial opening to feelings. That is why the narrative is a bit disjointed, as characters don't exist to a reader when they are not under the auspices of the mountains.
Exploring the meaning of the intricate relationship of men with nature, Cognetti created a heartwarming story. I don't know to which extent is the story autobiographical, but Cognetti himself has a strong bond with mountains and as the main character of the story, spends his time in between the city and his residence in Italian Alps.
Recommended to misfits, loners, individualists, transcendentalists and lovers of mountains.
January 16, 2022
鈥� Sometimes I forget what living's for
And I hear my life through my front door
And I'll breathe it in
Oh I'm home again
"All the empty disappears
I remember why I'm here
Just surrender and believe
I fall down on my knees
Oh hello world
Hello world
Hello world鈥�
-- 鈥淗ello World鈥� 鈥� Lyrics by Tom Douglas, Tony Lane, David Lee
Pietro鈥檚 father, an orphan of the war, would seem to never take in the world around him when he climbed the mountains, he was more concerned with achieving some unspoken, unknown goal. When he was old enough to climb the mountains with his father, he was rarely alongside him. A mountain was a goal to be achieved, a notch on his belt. No whining, no complaining. If he saw someone up ahead, his pace quickened with the goal of overtaking them.
His mother liked to say that it was only her strong legs that had brought them together, had seduced him. She liked to soak it all in, the vistas that went beyond a single point of focus ahead.
A priest had once taken them up into the mountains when they were still young, and that same priest would, in turn, marry them many years later on a lovely morning in October of 1972. An autumnal wedding, in front of a chapel at the foot of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. In a sense, he was there, a silent, unseeing witness to the beatings of her heart.
The next day, they headed for a new life in Milan, the two of them, soon to be three.
It is in the mountains of Pietro鈥檚 childhood, that he befriends Bruno, a boy who lives nearby. A boy his mother had wanted to take under her, their, wing. She wished for him to have a childhood that included attending school rather than herding cows. And so Bruno becomes a fixture in their lives. A friendship that will see years pass with little contact, yet a lifelong friendship takes root.
This tale of lives intertwined, each one with unique, perhaps with even somewhat stubbornly held, views but nevertheless there is that bond that keeps it from unraveling completely. Beautiful in its simplicity, the writing reflects this ease in this ode to a friendship, an ode to the beauty of the mountains, to this life, and even to the gifts received through the love our parents instilled in us of a simpler way of life.
An ode to life.
Published: 20 Mar 2018
Many thanks for the ARC provided by Atria Books
November 14, 2019
Lamberto Dini 猫 bruttissimo. Dice: s矛, ma si veste bene. Porca puttana, brutto com鈥櫭� ci mancherebbe altro che si vestisse male.
Paolo Hendel
Ognuno ha i maestri che si merita e io, sia detto senza falsa modestia, Paolo Hendel me lo merito tutto. Cos矛, mentre leggevo Le otto montagne, riflettevo sul pensiero dell鈥檌strione fiorentino e lo malleavo alla bisogna: che sia, questo libro, equivalente letterario del succitato dirigente d鈥檃zienda, economista e politico italiano (fonte: Wikipedia) dai lineamenti non cos矛 gradevoli ma che, tuttavia, indossa capi di pregevole fattura? Per rispondere a tale domanda, c鈥櫭� bisogno di uscir di metafora e affrontare la vexata quaestio che tanto fa tribolare i critici pi霉 scafati: si pu貌 scrivere bene una brutta storia? E, specularmente, si pu貌 scrivere male un bel romanzo?
Partendo dalla fine, direi che la risposta all鈥檜ltima domanda non pu貌 che essere negativa. Non esiste un bel romanzo scritto male perch茅 la buona scrittura 鈥� le parole, le frasi, lo stile, il tono, il suono, le virgole, etc. - 猫 condizione necessaria per raccontare una storia. Non pu貌 esistere una bella casa costruita male, perch茅 mi casca sulla testa. Non pu貌 esistere un bel piatto cucinato male, perch茅 non riesco a mandarlo gi霉. Non pu貌 esistere un bel libro scritto male, perch茅 non riesco a leggerlo. Quindi, se un libro 猫 scritto male, allora 猫 un brutto libro. A prescindere da quello che vorrebbe raccontare, perch茅 se 猫 scritto male io non ci capisco niente, mi stanco, e invece di leggere vado a fare una passeggiata. Fermato ci貌, il passo per rispondere alla prima domanda 鈥� si pu貌 scrivere bene una brutta storia? - 猫 breve: se 猫 vero che la buona scrittura 猫 condizione necessaria per un buon romanzo, 猫 altrettanto vero che non 猫 condizione sufficiente. Una casa costruita bene non per forza 猫 una bella casa, un piatto cucinato bene non per forza 猫 un bel piatto (mi sto incartando con le metafore, bisogna che mi dia una calmata), e cos矛 un romanzo scritto bene non 猫 per forza un buon romanzo.
Con un po鈥� di sudore sulla fronte, sono arrivato dove pressappoco volevo arrivare, e cio猫 a dire che Le otto montagne sono come Lamberto Dini, un libro bruttissimo. Dice: s矛, ma 猫 scritto bene. Porca puttana, brutto com鈥櫭� ci mancherebbe altro che fosse scritto male. Anzi, a dirla tutta, il fatto che sia scritto bene 猫 un鈥檃ggravante. Tutte quelle belle parole, quelle frasi che scorrono, il gergo montanaro cos矛 preciso, le descrizioni da far impazzire zia Savina, leggete un po鈥�:
Solo un oggetto si riscattava dalla mediocrit脿 ed era una stufa nera, di ghisa, massiccia e severa, con la maniglia di ottone e quattro fuochi su cui cucinare.
Io non sono mica buono a fare frasi del genere. Se avessi dovuto dire io, quella roba l脿, avrei scritto c鈥檈ra una stufa. Anzi, nemmeno l鈥檃vrei detto, io le stufe nemmeno le colgo, tantomeno massicce e severe. Una stufa severa. Vedi come fa rigare dritto i fuochi, la stufa severa. A casa mia c鈥檋o la stufa anarcomollacciona: i fuochi fanno quel che gli pare a loro. Quello medio, in basso a sinistra, per tenerlo acceso bisogna fargli le moine, anche se mia moglie dice che va solo con un colpo secco. Io non ci credo, io sono per la persuasione, non sono severo come la stufa di Cognetti. Quello grande, per la pentola dell鈥檃cqua, non conosce mezze misure: o pompa al massimo oppure si spegne, offeso, con la conseguenza che per fare una pastasciutta servono sette metri cubi di gas. Comunque, la frase di Cognetti 猫 davvero bella. Ci sono un sacco di frasi cos矛 e il rimpianto mio 猫 quello solito: non avere la Smemoranda per segnarle tutte e farle leggere alla compagna di banco facendo la faccia di chi la sa lunga.
Ma comunque, dicevo dell鈥檃ggravante. Cognetti scrive bene, davvero bene, e ogni frase 猫 un invito a proseguire. Solo che鈥� solo che鈥� solo che racconta una storiella banale, noiosa, un soggetto buono per una fiction su Rai Uno, in prima serata, mentre noi scafati guardiamo Trapped in streaming (;-)). L鈥檌nsieme di segni di interpunzione appena superato sarebbe il tentativo non so quanto riuscito di mettere una faccina con occhiolino tra parentesi. C鈥櫭� l鈥檃mbientazione montanara (a proposito della fiction, farebbe un figurone la scritta con il patrocinio dell鈥檃mministrazione comunale di...), ci sono lunghe passeggiate, ci sono persone che parlano poco e poi si sciolgono davanti a un buon bicchiere di vino. C鈥櫭� la storia di un鈥檃micizia tra bambini/adolescenti che sembra scritta da uno che da bambino/adolescente non abbia mai avuto un amico, montanaro o no. Ci sono vite che vanno avanti come nel peggior incubo andreadecarliano: gente che legge Hemingway (mannaggia! Hemingway! Io la gente che legge Hemingway l鈥檋o conosciuta solo nei romanzi), va in Nepal, fa documentari sulle popolazioni dell鈥橦imalaya che mentre lo leggi ti immagini Jovanotti che sorride compiaciuto mentre sottolinea quel passo. Poi c鈥櫭� gente che 猫 nata in montagna e dalla montagna non pu貌 andare via, costruisce case a gratis tutto a mano, tipo MacGyver, non parla, pascola le mucche (che parli con le mucche, tipo i personaggi di Garcia Marquez s矛 mirabilmente berlinati da Efraim Medina Reyes?) e altre amenit脿 simili.
Io andrei avanti a parlare di Cognetti, otto montagne, Jovanotti, Andrea De Carlo e cose del genere, ma la mia bimba domenica ha il saggio di ginnastica e ho promesso che la portavo da Decathlon a comprare le calze apposta, che sarebbero quelle che non si vede la cucitura nel sedere, o qualcosa di simile. Va a finire che torno con la canotta di LeBron James.
Ma soprattutto, la ginnastica si fa con le calze?
Paolo Hendel
Ognuno ha i maestri che si merita e io, sia detto senza falsa modestia, Paolo Hendel me lo merito tutto. Cos矛, mentre leggevo Le otto montagne, riflettevo sul pensiero dell鈥檌strione fiorentino e lo malleavo alla bisogna: che sia, questo libro, equivalente letterario del succitato dirigente d鈥檃zienda, economista e politico italiano (fonte: Wikipedia) dai lineamenti non cos矛 gradevoli ma che, tuttavia, indossa capi di pregevole fattura? Per rispondere a tale domanda, c鈥櫭� bisogno di uscir di metafora e affrontare la vexata quaestio che tanto fa tribolare i critici pi霉 scafati: si pu貌 scrivere bene una brutta storia? E, specularmente, si pu貌 scrivere male un bel romanzo?
Partendo dalla fine, direi che la risposta all鈥檜ltima domanda non pu貌 che essere negativa. Non esiste un bel romanzo scritto male perch茅 la buona scrittura 鈥� le parole, le frasi, lo stile, il tono, il suono, le virgole, etc. - 猫 condizione necessaria per raccontare una storia. Non pu貌 esistere una bella casa costruita male, perch茅 mi casca sulla testa. Non pu貌 esistere un bel piatto cucinato male, perch茅 non riesco a mandarlo gi霉. Non pu貌 esistere un bel libro scritto male, perch茅 non riesco a leggerlo. Quindi, se un libro 猫 scritto male, allora 猫 un brutto libro. A prescindere da quello che vorrebbe raccontare, perch茅 se 猫 scritto male io non ci capisco niente, mi stanco, e invece di leggere vado a fare una passeggiata. Fermato ci貌, il passo per rispondere alla prima domanda 鈥� si pu貌 scrivere bene una brutta storia? - 猫 breve: se 猫 vero che la buona scrittura 猫 condizione necessaria per un buon romanzo, 猫 altrettanto vero che non 猫 condizione sufficiente. Una casa costruita bene non per forza 猫 una bella casa, un piatto cucinato bene non per forza 猫 un bel piatto (mi sto incartando con le metafore, bisogna che mi dia una calmata), e cos矛 un romanzo scritto bene non 猫 per forza un buon romanzo.
Con un po鈥� di sudore sulla fronte, sono arrivato dove pressappoco volevo arrivare, e cio猫 a dire che Le otto montagne sono come Lamberto Dini, un libro bruttissimo. Dice: s矛, ma 猫 scritto bene. Porca puttana, brutto com鈥櫭� ci mancherebbe altro che fosse scritto male. Anzi, a dirla tutta, il fatto che sia scritto bene 猫 un鈥檃ggravante. Tutte quelle belle parole, quelle frasi che scorrono, il gergo montanaro cos矛 preciso, le descrizioni da far impazzire zia Savina, leggete un po鈥�:
Solo un oggetto si riscattava dalla mediocrit脿 ed era una stufa nera, di ghisa, massiccia e severa, con la maniglia di ottone e quattro fuochi su cui cucinare.
Io non sono mica buono a fare frasi del genere. Se avessi dovuto dire io, quella roba l脿, avrei scritto c鈥檈ra una stufa. Anzi, nemmeno l鈥檃vrei detto, io le stufe nemmeno le colgo, tantomeno massicce e severe. Una stufa severa. Vedi come fa rigare dritto i fuochi, la stufa severa. A casa mia c鈥檋o la stufa anarcomollacciona: i fuochi fanno quel che gli pare a loro. Quello medio, in basso a sinistra, per tenerlo acceso bisogna fargli le moine, anche se mia moglie dice che va solo con un colpo secco. Io non ci credo, io sono per la persuasione, non sono severo come la stufa di Cognetti. Quello grande, per la pentola dell鈥檃cqua, non conosce mezze misure: o pompa al massimo oppure si spegne, offeso, con la conseguenza che per fare una pastasciutta servono sette metri cubi di gas. Comunque, la frase di Cognetti 猫 davvero bella. Ci sono un sacco di frasi cos矛 e il rimpianto mio 猫 quello solito: non avere la Smemoranda per segnarle tutte e farle leggere alla compagna di banco facendo la faccia di chi la sa lunga.
Ma comunque, dicevo dell鈥檃ggravante. Cognetti scrive bene, davvero bene, e ogni frase 猫 un invito a proseguire. Solo che鈥� solo che鈥� solo che racconta una storiella banale, noiosa, un soggetto buono per una fiction su Rai Uno, in prima serata, mentre noi scafati guardiamo Trapped in streaming (;-)). L鈥檌nsieme di segni di interpunzione appena superato sarebbe il tentativo non so quanto riuscito di mettere una faccina con occhiolino tra parentesi. C鈥櫭� l鈥檃mbientazione montanara (a proposito della fiction, farebbe un figurone la scritta con il patrocinio dell鈥檃mministrazione comunale di...), ci sono lunghe passeggiate, ci sono persone che parlano poco e poi si sciolgono davanti a un buon bicchiere di vino. C鈥櫭� la storia di un鈥檃micizia tra bambini/adolescenti che sembra scritta da uno che da bambino/adolescente non abbia mai avuto un amico, montanaro o no. Ci sono vite che vanno avanti come nel peggior incubo andreadecarliano: gente che legge Hemingway (mannaggia! Hemingway! Io la gente che legge Hemingway l鈥檋o conosciuta solo nei romanzi), va in Nepal, fa documentari sulle popolazioni dell鈥橦imalaya che mentre lo leggi ti immagini Jovanotti che sorride compiaciuto mentre sottolinea quel passo. Poi c鈥櫭� gente che 猫 nata in montagna e dalla montagna non pu貌 andare via, costruisce case a gratis tutto a mano, tipo MacGyver, non parla, pascola le mucche (che parli con le mucche, tipo i personaggi di Garcia Marquez s矛 mirabilmente berlinati da Efraim Medina Reyes?) e altre amenit脿 simili.
Io andrei avanti a parlare di Cognetti, otto montagne, Jovanotti, Andrea De Carlo e cose del genere, ma la mia bimba domenica ha il saggio di ginnastica e ho promesso che la portavo da Decathlon a comprare le calze apposta, che sarebbero quelle che non si vede la cucitura nel sedere, o qualcosa di simile. Va a finire che torno con la canotta di LeBron James.
Ma soprattutto, la ginnastica si fa con le calze?
March 29, 2018
5 stars to the enchanting and quietly-written, The Eight Mountains! 猸愶笍 猸愶笍 猸愶笍 猸愶笍 猸愶笍
Pietro and his parents are from the metropolitan city of Milan, and they vacation in the Dolomites of Italy in a remote village. Pietro鈥檚 father is consumed with climbing the tallest peaks, which is difficult for Pietro to understand. While in the shadow of his father, he forms a friendship with Bruno, another child from the village.
Over time, the mountains and his friendship with the steadfast Bruno help to keep Pietro grounded. His life experiences many changes, but the mountains and Bruno are always there for him, unwavering.
Cognetti鈥檚 prose, even through translation, is alluring. The mountains themselves become a character in the novel with symbolism to be deciphered.
A story of friendship and family relationships in a glorious alpine setting, The Eight Mountains is a quiet book worthy of a re-read and more reflection.
This book came highly recommended by my friends, Cheri and Angela M. Thank you both for an unforgettable read!
For this and other Traveling Sister Reviews, please visit Brenda and Norma鈥檚 fabulous blog:
Thank you to Paolo Cognetti, Atria, and Netgalley for the ARC.
Pietro and his parents are from the metropolitan city of Milan, and they vacation in the Dolomites of Italy in a remote village. Pietro鈥檚 father is consumed with climbing the tallest peaks, which is difficult for Pietro to understand. While in the shadow of his father, he forms a friendship with Bruno, another child from the village.
Over time, the mountains and his friendship with the steadfast Bruno help to keep Pietro grounded. His life experiences many changes, but the mountains and Bruno are always there for him, unwavering.
Cognetti鈥檚 prose, even through translation, is alluring. The mountains themselves become a character in the novel with symbolism to be deciphered.
A story of friendship and family relationships in a glorious alpine setting, The Eight Mountains is a quiet book worthy of a re-read and more reflection.
This book came highly recommended by my friends, Cheri and Angela M. Thank you both for an unforgettable read!
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Thank you to Paolo Cognetti, Atria, and Netgalley for the ARC.
April 26, 2023
L'UNIT脌 PRIMORDIALE DEI DISSIMILI
L'impressione che ho avuto leggendo questo romanzo 猫 stata quella di rileggere Pavese in un contesto non pi霉 situato nelle Langhe, ma nelle montagne del Nord Italia. E questo lo dico perch茅 apprezzo molto Pavese, cos矛 come ho apprezzato moltissimo Cognetti.
La trama 猫 semplice e simbolica, come l'immagine delle otto montagne, a significare le scelta fatta da chi scappa costantemente da una condizione di stabilit脿 (di per s茅 ideale ed impossibile da raggiungere) contro la scelta di chi, invece, decide ostinatamente di rimanere immobile.
Due modi di vivere incarnati dai due protagonisti del romanzo, Pietro e l'amico Bruno, descritti con grande sensibilit脿 e attenzione per la loro psicologia. Il rapporto con la montagna e con la natura in generale viene descritto in parallelo al rapporto con i genitori, in una reiterazione di dualit脿 relazionali che, pur polarizzati, non possono fare a meno di venirsi incontro e convivere.
Perch茅 cos矛 猫 la vita: siamo dissimili, addirittura antipodici, ma uniti da un'umanit脿 di fondo e da una primordiale e direi imprescindibile appartenenza alla natura.
L'impressione che ho avuto leggendo questo romanzo 猫 stata quella di rileggere Pavese in un contesto non pi霉 situato nelle Langhe, ma nelle montagne del Nord Italia. E questo lo dico perch茅 apprezzo molto Pavese, cos矛 come ho apprezzato moltissimo Cognetti.
La trama 猫 semplice e simbolica, come l'immagine delle otto montagne, a significare le scelta fatta da chi scappa costantemente da una condizione di stabilit脿 (di per s茅 ideale ed impossibile da raggiungere) contro la scelta di chi, invece, decide ostinatamente di rimanere immobile.
Due modi di vivere incarnati dai due protagonisti del romanzo, Pietro e l'amico Bruno, descritti con grande sensibilit脿 e attenzione per la loro psicologia. Il rapporto con la montagna e con la natura in generale viene descritto in parallelo al rapporto con i genitori, in una reiterazione di dualit脿 relazionali che, pur polarizzati, non possono fare a meno di venirsi incontro e convivere.
Perch茅 cos矛 猫 la vita: siamo dissimili, addirittura antipodici, ma uniti da un'umanit脿 di fondo e da una primordiale e direi imprescindibile appartenenza alla natura.
February 27, 2020
Harmony
Paolo Cognetti has written a pleasant story of family, lifelong friendship and an insight into the Alps region, particularly around Monte Rosa. The two aspects of friendship and landscape, are always present throughout the book in an enduring partnership.
The main storyline is the lifelong undiminished friendship between Pietro and Bruno. They first meet at the age of thirteen when Pietro鈥檚 family visit Grana village as summer residents. Bruno is a likeable teenager, open, respectful and appreciative. With no great family support, he is invited into Pietro's family circle. Pietro鈥檚 mother educates him to read and write, his father takes him on hikes into the mountain and the two boys become like brothers.
The friendship isn鈥檛 intense but it is genuine and unshakeable. Through the years Pietro tends to go off travelling around the world spending the majority of time in the Himalayas and when he returns the friendship resumes as normal. It is one of those friendships that have no prejudices, no judgements and no egotism. Bruno lives his whole life in Grana and the surrounding mountains. As the years' progress, he becomes more and more remote from society, living in a cabin high in the mountains until deep winter drives him down to the village. This change in his character is really well portrayed and there is a vulnerability about Bruno regardless of his robust and capable physique.
The other facet of the book is the vivid imagery of a region in the Alps where eight mountains circle a specific location like 'the spokes of a wheel'. I used Google street view to remotely walk some of the paths around Monte Rosa and the Matterhorn and it鈥檚 just awesome. I have always loved hiking and I know the feeling of reaching a summit, where the sudden vista is just spectacular. To just stand perfectly still, trying not to allow your breathing to interrupt the moment. It can be emotional because you have committed a lot of effort and the overwhelming panoramic view is a personal sense of achievement. There is also the appreciation of just how small you are in the immense surrounding and majesty of nature. Unfortunately, I didn鈥檛 get enough of that sense of wonderment or appeal from Pietro鈥檚 journeys, yet they were in the Alps.
There is a quote from Pietro鈥檚 father relating to the grandeur of the Alps compared with other mountain ranges, it鈥檚 like
I have to say that I enjoyed the book and would recommend it, especially if the Alps region is of interest but it did lack a passionate edge from Pietro. All the relationship interactions were very safe and while events happened in their lives, they were dealt with as a matter of fact with no real examination. The father expressed his love for the Alps quite well but Pietro who tells the story seems to have a lacklustre sense of describing his thoughts and feelings. Where was your passion, Pietro?
A nice break from more typical genres to enjoy an inspiring landscape and friendship story. Many thanks to Random House UK, Vintage Publishing and NetGalley, for an ARC version of the book in return for an honest review.
Paolo Cognetti has written a pleasant story of family, lifelong friendship and an insight into the Alps region, particularly around Monte Rosa. The two aspects of friendship and landscape, are always present throughout the book in an enduring partnership.
The main storyline is the lifelong undiminished friendship between Pietro and Bruno. They first meet at the age of thirteen when Pietro鈥檚 family visit Grana village as summer residents. Bruno is a likeable teenager, open, respectful and appreciative. With no great family support, he is invited into Pietro's family circle. Pietro鈥檚 mother educates him to read and write, his father takes him on hikes into the mountain and the two boys become like brothers.
The friendship isn鈥檛 intense but it is genuine and unshakeable. Through the years Pietro tends to go off travelling around the world spending the majority of time in the Himalayas and when he returns the friendship resumes as normal. It is one of those friendships that have no prejudices, no judgements and no egotism. Bruno lives his whole life in Grana and the surrounding mountains. As the years' progress, he becomes more and more remote from society, living in a cabin high in the mountains until deep winter drives him down to the village. This change in his character is really well portrayed and there is a vulnerability about Bruno regardless of his robust and capable physique.
The other facet of the book is the vivid imagery of a region in the Alps where eight mountains circle a specific location like 'the spokes of a wheel'. I used Google street view to remotely walk some of the paths around Monte Rosa and the Matterhorn and it鈥檚 just awesome. I have always loved hiking and I know the feeling of reaching a summit, where the sudden vista is just spectacular. To just stand perfectly still, trying not to allow your breathing to interrupt the moment. It can be emotional because you have committed a lot of effort and the overwhelming panoramic view is a personal sense of achievement. There is also the appreciation of just how small you are in the immense surrounding and majesty of nature. Unfortunately, I didn鈥檛 get enough of that sense of wonderment or appeal from Pietro鈥檚 journeys, yet they were in the Alps.
There is a quote from Pietro鈥檚 father relating to the grandeur of the Alps compared with other mountain ranges, it鈥檚 like
鈥渁rriving from the mountains of men to find yourself in the mountains of giants. And naturally, he fell in love with them at first sight.鈥�
I have to say that I enjoyed the book and would recommend it, especially if the Alps region is of interest but it did lack a passionate edge from Pietro. All the relationship interactions were very safe and while events happened in their lives, they were dealt with as a matter of fact with no real examination. The father expressed his love for the Alps quite well but Pietro who tells the story seems to have a lacklustre sense of describing his thoughts and feelings. Where was your passion, Pietro?
A nice break from more typical genres to enjoy an inspiring landscape and friendship story. Many thanks to Random House UK, Vintage Publishing and NetGalley, for an ARC version of the book in return for an honest review.
April 1, 2018
A beautiful, contemplative toned novel, about the relationships between father's and sons, and the friendship between two very different boys. Piedro is even when his family takes a holiday cottage at the foot of Italy's Grand Rosa Mountain. His father has a love of mountains, their paths, hiking through different passages and seeing what he can find, experiencing nature. An experience Piedro does not cherish as much as his father, which will eventually become a fissure in their relationship. Piedro meets Bruno, a boy who herds cows, his mother a true mountain woman, s father with whom he will have his own difficulties.
So many books about mother, daughter relationships, female friendships, it was a welcome relief to come upon a book that featured male relationships. Gorgeous and lengthy descriptions of mountains, touching scenes between friends as they grow older and try to find x new way to define their friendship. Bruno, staying put in the mountains he has made his home, and Piedro, who wants to explore other areas, do different things. The fracture between both fathers and sons and the reason for these. A touching, quiet book, but one that quietly weaved its way into my heart.
ARC from Edelweiss.
So many books about mother, daughter relationships, female friendships, it was a welcome relief to come upon a book that featured male relationships. Gorgeous and lengthy descriptions of mountains, touching scenes between friends as they grow older and try to find x new way to define their friendship. Bruno, staying put in the mountains he has made his home, and Piedro, who wants to explore other areas, do different things. The fracture between both fathers and sons and the reason for these. A touching, quiet book, but one that quietly weaved its way into my heart.
ARC from Edelweiss.
December 17, 2017
L'altro giorno in metropolitana ho pensato che se un libro mi fa dimenticare dove sono (e non 猫 facile) dopo neanche una fermata merita cinque stelle.
E' sicuramente un giudizio dato a caldo, magari d'impulso, ma sono di parte, amo la montagna, amo quei luoghi e questo libro mi ha fatto stare bene.
Non aggiungo molto altro, sapevo gi脿 che la scrittura di Cognetti mi piace molto, e la casina in mezzo alla neve da raggiungere dopo ore da camminata 猫 in un angolo della mia mente, serve per riposarmi quando non ne posso pi霉 del grigio uggioso della citt脿, della folla, dell'ansia.
E' sicuramente un giudizio dato a caldo, magari d'impulso, ma sono di parte, amo la montagna, amo quei luoghi e questo libro mi ha fatto stare bene.
Non aggiungo molto altro, sapevo gi脿 che la scrittura di Cognetti mi piace molto, e la casina in mezzo alla neve da raggiungere dopo ore da camminata 猫 in un angolo della mia mente, serve per riposarmi quando non ne posso pi霉 del grigio uggioso della citt脿, della folla, dell'ansia.
April 1, 2021
Well written but The Eight Mountains didn't hit the heart for me
The good...
I found the first part of this book really strong in conjuring the feeling of youth, the slow passing of time in relation to the uncertainty (and freedom) of not knowing where to go. It gave me a sense of melancholy to my own childhood.
The childhood of the main character, and in the end the life long friendship between Bruno and the narrator, is also beautifully told. In that sense the book reminds me of of .
The nature and environment depiction in is very strong as well: I wanted to start rock climbing, live more simple and go to the alps by reading this book, a rare experience.
...and the less good
The pacing of the book, zooming in on little events and zooming out (and sometimes killing characters off) in a few pages unsettled me a bit while reading. Also the last part of the book I found less compelling. Not much really happens, its a kind of a slow car crash you and the narrator just witness, while he was so sharp and relentless in relation to the observations of his parents behaviour earlier. The main character himself didn't, for me, really felt there and present in this part of the book, with his unnamed girlfriends, fleeting observations on Nepal and seemingly no internal reflection on what is unfolding around him.
What also struck me about the end is that it all felt a bit overtly hipster to me, with "find yourself trips" to Nepal, revolts against 鈥渘ormal鈥� society, organically farming on a godforsaken mountain; it felt a bit doctored and deterred from the pureness of the first section.
All in all this book feels a bit overhyped despite the strong start: three stars.
The good...
I found the first part of this book really strong in conjuring the feeling of youth, the slow passing of time in relation to the uncertainty (and freedom) of not knowing where to go. It gave me a sense of melancholy to my own childhood.
The childhood of the main character, and in the end the life long friendship between Bruno and the narrator, is also beautifully told. In that sense the book reminds me of of .
The nature and environment depiction in is very strong as well: I wanted to start rock climbing, live more simple and go to the alps by reading this book, a rare experience.
...and the less good
The pacing of the book, zooming in on little events and zooming out (and sometimes killing characters off) in a few pages unsettled me a bit while reading. Also the last part of the book I found less compelling. Not much really happens, its a kind of a slow car crash you and the narrator just witness, while he was so sharp and relentless in relation to the observations of his parents behaviour earlier. The main character himself didn't, for me, really felt there and present in this part of the book, with his unnamed girlfriends, fleeting observations on Nepal and seemingly no internal reflection on what is unfolding around him.
What also struck me about the end is that it all felt a bit overtly hipster to me, with "find yourself trips" to Nepal, revolts against 鈥渘ormal鈥� society, organically farming on a godforsaken mountain; it felt a bit doctored and deterred from the pureness of the first section.
All in all this book feels a bit overhyped despite the strong start: three stars.
July 31, 2018
You might say this is a novel about men who are rubbish with women. The narrator, his father and his childhood friend, the three main protagonists, all prefer mountains to women. There's something ruggedly masculine about mountains - the solitude and absence of domestic comforts, the demands they make on physical strength and endurance. It's perhaps one of the places men go to prove to themselves they are men.
The most poignant part of this book for me was the narrator's troubled relationship with his father. This was very moving. I was sorry it was dropped half way through in favour of re-establishing the childhood friendship as adults which I found altogether less compelling and convincing. As a novel it veered close to sentimentality at times. I wasn't entirely convinced two men could be content together in a single room far removed from every vestige of civilisation. I kept thinking one of them must be gay. But the author was determined to keep namedropping girlfriends even though, bar one, these girls made no appearance in the book. Surely to share a room in the mountains is an oxymoron? Claustrophobia in deep space.
There's a lot of description of mountainous terrain. Too much for my liking. But then I'm not a great fan of mountains. I prefer hills.
The most poignant part of this book for me was the narrator's troubled relationship with his father. This was very moving. I was sorry it was dropped half way through in favour of re-establishing the childhood friendship as adults which I found altogether less compelling and convincing. As a novel it veered close to sentimentality at times. I wasn't entirely convinced two men could be content together in a single room far removed from every vestige of civilisation. I kept thinking one of them must be gay. But the author was determined to keep namedropping girlfriends even though, bar one, these girls made no appearance in the book. Surely to share a room in the mountains is an oxymoron? Claustrophobia in deep space.
There's a lot of description of mountainous terrain. Too much for my liking. But then I'm not a great fan of mountains. I prefer hills.
August 7, 2017
Padri e figli
Una storia di padri, di figli, di amicizia e di montagne.
Un padre autoritario e indifferente che si incammina instancabile per i sentieri montani cercando di raggiungere in ogni modo la vetta, anche lontana. Forse per dimenticare i problemi che ci sono al piano, a casa, in citt脿.
Un figlio, Pietro e un amico, Bruno, cos矛 diversi: Pietro cittadino, silenzioso e spinto dal padre verso le montagne e Bruno, montanaro di nascita, genitori assenti. Sono figli di due mondi agli antipodi, uno immerso nel caos cittadino e l'altro nella rarefazione montana. Uno 猫 instabile, non sa quello che vuole e gira il mondo. L'altro non sa ci貌 che vuole ma 猫 troppo piantato nel luogo dove 猫 nato. L'unico punto in comune 猫 la loro amicizia.
E poi la montagna, aspra, affascinante, dura, faticosa; un luogo silenzioso e rarefatto dove il tempo rallenta consentendoci di riflettere sulla nostra vita, sull'amicizia, sull'amore, sulle cose importanti.
Pietro gira il mondo, mentre Bruno rimane. Ma il rapporto tra i due rimane inalterato e quando Pietro ritorna, il passato riaffiora. I rituali ripetuti ravvivano il senso di appartenenza alla vita:
"Un uomo con due grandi baffi bianchi mi raccont貌 che per lui era un modo per ripensare alla sua vita. Era come se, attaccando lo stesso vecchio sentiero una volta all'anno, si addentrasse tra i ricordi e risalisse il corso della propria vita"
Pietro, il cui rapporto col padre era difficoltoso fintanto questi era in vita, inizia a capire il genitore solo dopo la sua morte, percorrendone i sentieri, addentrandosi nei ricordi. Un padre severo ma fragile, incapace di affrontare un discorso col figlio, imperfetto ma anche per questo umano. Un padre abbandonato, ma poi, in un secondo tempo e troppo tardi riconosciuto e valorizzato.
Sar脿 perch茅 ho trascorso lunghi periodi in montagna, nell'infanzia, tra Catinaccio e Cime di Lavaredo. O che ho passato la vita combattendo con un padre autoritario, testardo e poco propenso ai rapporti umani; un padre che ho iniziato a capire solo troppo tardi, dopo l'inevitabile separazione. Sar脿 per tutto questo che la storia raccontata in questo bel libro mi ha colpito e affondato.
Il romanzo 猫 scritto benissimo. Nessuna forzatura, nessuna violenza, nessun cellulare, nessuna parolaccia, niente sesso, nessuna concessione al linguaggio "odierno", niente citazioni o riferimenti colti. Solo una storia semplice, profonda, malinconica, raccontata con intelligenza. Solo?
January 17, 2019
氐丿丕賯丞 乇丕卅毓丞 亘賷賳 卮禺氐賷賳 噩賲毓賴賲丕 丨亘 丕賱噩亘丕賱.
丕丨丿賴賲丕 賷毓賷卮 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賵賷鬲噩賵賱 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賵丕賱丌禺乇 賱賲 賷禺乇噩 賲賳 賯乇賷鬲賴 賵賮賷賳丕 亘毓丿 賲賳 噩亘賱賴.
丕賱鬲毓賱賯 賮賷 丨亘 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賵鬲爻賱賯賴丕 賵丕爻鬲賰卮丕賮 兀賵丿賷鬲賴丕 賵丕賳丨丿丕乇丕鬲賴丕 賱丕 賷鬲毓賱賯 亘賴 丕賱丕 賲賳 噩乇亘賴丕 丕賵 毓丕卮 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲賳丕胤賯.
丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱賯氐丞 鬲噩乇賷 賮賷 賲賳胤賯丞 丕賱丌賱亘 丕賱廿賷胤丕賱賷丞 丨賷孬 賷夭乇毓 丕賱兀亘 賵丕賱兀賲 丨亘 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賮賷 丕亘賳賴賲 丕賱氐睾賷乇 賵丕賱匕賷 賷氐丕丿賯 丕丨丿 丕亘賳丕亍 丕賱賯乇賷丞 賵鬲爻鬲賲乇 丕賱氐丿丕賯丞 賱賲丕 賷賯丕乇亘 丕賱孬賱丕孬賷賳 毓丕賲丕 .
賵氐賮 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 乇丕卅毓 賵賱丕賳賷 丕丨亘 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賵兀毓卮賯賴丕 丕爻鬲賲鬲毓鬲 亘賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 噩丿丕.
噩賲賷賱 丕賳 鬲毓卮賯 卮賷卅丕 鬲噩丿賴 丿丕卅賲丕 賵鬲毓賵丿 丕賱賷賴 賱鬲噩丿 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賮賷 丕賳鬲馗丕乇賰 賲賴賲丕 睾亘鬲 丕賵 鬲噩賵賱鬲 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賱賴丕 噩賲丕賱賴丕 丕賱禺丕乇賯 丕賱匕賷 賷禺賱亘 丕賱兀賱亘丕亘.
兀賳丕爻 賷毓賷卮賵賳 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 毓丕丿賷丞 賱丕 鬲禺鬲賱賮 毓賳 丕賻賷 兀賳丕爻 賷爻賷乇賵賳 賮賷 丕賱卮丕乇毓 賵賱丕 卮賷亍 賲賲賷夭 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴賲 丕賵 丨鬲賶 胤賲賵丨賴賲 賵賱賰賳 丕賱賯氐丞 鬲噩毓賱賰 丕賳賴賲 賷氐丕乇毓賵賳 賱賱丨賮丕馗 賴賱賶 賲丕 兀丨亘賵賴 賵毓卮賯鬲賴 賲賳匕 丕賱胤賮賵賱丞.
丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賷囟丕 乇丕卅毓丞
賲賲鬲毓丞
丕丨丿賴賲丕 賷毓賷卮 賮賷 丕賱賲丿賷賳丞 賵賷鬲噩賵賱 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲貙 賵丕賱丌禺乇 賱賲 賷禺乇噩 賲賳 賯乇賷鬲賴 賵賮賷賳丕 亘毓丿 賲賳 噩亘賱賴.
丕賱鬲毓賱賯 賮賷 丨亘 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賵鬲爻賱賯賴丕 賵丕爻鬲賰卮丕賮 兀賵丿賷鬲賴丕 賵丕賳丨丿丕乇丕鬲賴丕 賱丕 賷鬲毓賱賯 亘賴 丕賱丕 賲賳 噩乇亘賴丕 丕賵 毓丕卮 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲賳丕胤賯.
丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱賯氐丞 鬲噩乇賷 賮賷 賲賳胤賯丞 丕賱丌賱亘 丕賱廿賷胤丕賱賷丞 丨賷孬 賷夭乇毓 丕賱兀亘 賵丕賱兀賲 丨亘 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賮賷 丕亘賳賴賲 丕賱氐睾賷乇 賵丕賱匕賷 賷氐丕丿賯 丕丨丿 丕亘賳丕亍 丕賱賯乇賷丞 賵鬲爻鬲賲乇 丕賱氐丿丕賯丞 賱賲丕 賷賯丕乇亘 丕賱孬賱丕孬賷賳 毓丕賲丕 .
賵氐賮 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞 乇丕卅毓 賵賱丕賳賷 丕丨亘 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賵兀毓卮賯賴丕 丕爻鬲賲鬲毓鬲 亘賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 噩丿丕.
噩賲賷賱 丕賳 鬲毓卮賯 卮賷卅丕 鬲噩丿賴 丿丕卅賲丕 賵鬲毓賵丿 丕賱賷賴 賱鬲噩丿 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賮賷 丕賳鬲馗丕乇賰 賲賴賲丕 睾亘鬲 丕賵 鬲噩賵賱鬲 鬲賰賵賳 丕賱噩亘丕賱 賱賴丕 噩賲丕賱賴丕 丕賱禺丕乇賯 丕賱匕賷 賷禺賱亘 丕賱兀賱亘丕亘.
兀賳丕爻 賷毓賷卮賵賳 丨賷丕鬲賳丕 毓丕丿賷丞 賱丕 鬲禺鬲賱賮 毓賳 丕賻賷 兀賳丕爻 賷爻賷乇賵賳 賮賷 丕賱卮丕乇毓 賵賱丕 卮賷亍 賲賲賷夭 賮賷 丨賷丕鬲賴賲 丕賵 丨鬲賶 胤賲賵丨賴賲 賵賱賰賳 丕賱賯氐丞 鬲噩毓賱賰 丕賳賴賲 賷氐丕乇毓賵賳 賱賱丨賮丕馗 賴賱賶 賲丕 兀丨亘賵賴 賵毓卮賯鬲賴 賲賳匕 丕賱胤賮賵賱丞.
丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賷囟丕 乇丕卅毓丞
賲賲鬲毓丞
November 21, 2018
The Eight Mountains is a beautifully and simply written coming of age story that explores relationships and connections not only between the characters but with the mountains and a tiny Alpine Village. We were taken from our sheltered coulee and were emerged into the Foothills of Italy鈥檚 Monte Rosa Mountains. We were taken on a journey with our main character Pietro along at times with his father or best friend Bruno though the village, jumping from rock to rock, wading in the river, taking us to summits and glaciers and hiking and climbing through the mountains. The descriptions so vivid that we felt like we were there with them.
Paolo Cognetti does a good job creating two very different complex characters here with Pietro and Bruno. Both living very different lives and but joined together by a deep complex bond.
Written is such a quiet way that allowed me to think of the connections between the characters and the land around them while they found their place in the world. I loved how this story made me feel and think of my own connections to the land around me.
The ending left me thinking long after finishing. It left me thinking along with the peace, adventure or journey in the mountains they come with danger, secrets and mystery. I highly recommend for those times when you need a beautifully written quiet story.
Published on March 20, 2018
Thank you, NetGalley, Atria and Paolo Cognetti for a copy to read and review.
Review written and posted on our themed book blog Two Sisters Lost In A Coulee Reading.
Paolo Cognetti does a good job creating two very different complex characters here with Pietro and Bruno. Both living very different lives and but joined together by a deep complex bond.
Written is such a quiet way that allowed me to think of the connections between the characters and the land around them while they found their place in the world. I loved how this story made me feel and think of my own connections to the land around me.
The ending left me thinking long after finishing. It left me thinking along with the peace, adventure or journey in the mountains they come with danger, secrets and mystery. I highly recommend for those times when you need a beautifully written quiet story.
Published on March 20, 2018
Thank you, NetGalley, Atria and Paolo Cognetti for a copy to read and review.
Review written and posted on our themed book blog Two Sisters Lost In A Coulee Reading.
January 20, 2018
Paolo Cognetti (n. 1978)
鈥滱s Oito Montanhas鈥� 茅 um romance que abre com o cap铆tulo As Oito Montanhas e est谩 dividido em tr锚s partes: Montanha da Inf芒ncia, A Casa da Reconcilia莽茫o e Inverno de Um Amigo; com cada uma das partes a estar subdividida em quatro cap铆tulos.
Paolo Cognetti (n. 1978)
鈥滱s Oito Montanhas鈥� tem como protagonista principal a montanha ou as montanhas, que nos fala de uma amizade entre dois amigos 鈥� Pietro e Bruno - que perdura para a vida, das complexas rela莽玫es entre pais e filhos, da 诲别肠别辫莽玫别蝉 da vida, do amor, nas suas m煤ltiplas variantes, pela montanha, pela natureza, pelos familiares, pelos amigos,鈥�; mas tamb茅m sobre a vida e sobre a morte.
鈥滱s Oito Montanhas鈥� 茅 uma obra liter谩ria em que a cada p谩gina conseguimos visualizar com uma nitidez crescente os pensamentos e as sensa莽玫es de um per铆odo e de uma vida que nos aproximam do que 茅 genu铆no, do que 茅 importante; das rela莽玫es e dos relacionamentos que devemos preservar, da forma como a natureza e o meio ambiente nos influ锚ncia, construindo um olhar que a qualquer momento se torna mais n铆tido, numa reflex茫o sobre a nossa exist锚ncia e sobre a hist贸ria da nossa forma莽茫o intelectual e sentimental. A forma como Paolo Cognetti nos exp玫e as sensa莽玫es e as experi锚ncias que vamos adquirindo na inf芒ncia e na adolesc锚ncia, o modo como se v茫o agrupando em camadas existenciais, procurando respostas para as nossas incertezas e para as nossas indecis玫es - 茅 magn铆fica; a vida 茅 feita, fundamentalmente, de alegria e dor, e de muito, muito mais鈥�, e tamb茅m de ler livros como 鈥滱s Oito Montanhas鈥�.
"As Oito Montanhas" numa ilustra莽茫o da Alice Rebolino
April 3, 2018
4 terrific writing stars
This was a wonderfully written story about friendship, that between two young boys Bruno and Pietro, who meet and develop their relationship over many years. They both share the love of the mountains, the Dolomites in Italy in this case. They bring their thrill and love for this area together as they explore the lush beautiful and often dangerous environs of this area. Their parents although not in what seems to be loving relationships do love the mountains as well.
As the boys reach maturity they each go their separate ways, one to stay upon his beloved mountains and the other to travel the world. Even though they are separated by many miles, they come together often to reestablish both their friendship nurtured by age, and their enduring love of the mountains.
This was a lovely coming of age story told with a background of beauty and compassion. The boys' camaraderie, their friendship grows into something special something hard to find in the days where so many things tend to separate us from each other.
Many thanks to Paolo Cognetti, Atria Books, and NetGalley for allowing this reader to have an advacned copy of this novel.
Thanks are also extended to the Traveling Sisters who read this book along with me.
This was a wonderfully written story about friendship, that between two young boys Bruno and Pietro, who meet and develop their relationship over many years. They both share the love of the mountains, the Dolomites in Italy in this case. They bring their thrill and love for this area together as they explore the lush beautiful and often dangerous environs of this area. Their parents although not in what seems to be loving relationships do love the mountains as well.
As the boys reach maturity they each go their separate ways, one to stay upon his beloved mountains and the other to travel the world. Even though they are separated by many miles, they come together often to reestablish both their friendship nurtured by age, and their enduring love of the mountains.
This was a lovely coming of age story told with a background of beauty and compassion. The boys' camaraderie, their friendship grows into something special something hard to find in the days where so many things tend to separate us from each other.
Many thanks to Paolo Cognetti, Atria Books, and NetGalley for allowing this reader to have an advacned copy of this novel.
Thanks are also extended to the Traveling Sisters who read this book along with me.
January 17, 2020
"You cannot go back to the mountain that is the center of all others, and the beginning of your own history"
This is simply one of the best written stories I read in recent years. The tone of narrator Pietro, even though it is a bit restreined, is spot on from start to finish. His eye for details, especially in the descriptions of nature in the mountains, is phenomenal and not just random, but always with an underlying layer. The structure of the book is perfectly balanced, with first a coming of age section very similar to Mark Twain, a surprising middle section in which friendship is central, and the perhaps somewhat predictable final section that still appeals through the sophisticated alternation of episodes. The book is remarkably accessible, no modernist experiments with Cognetti, giving it the space that is typical for a classic story.
Many readers think that this book is only about the beautiful, though unlikely friendship between "professional mountain dweller" Bruno and the city boy Pietro. Or about Pietro's difficult relationship with his inscrutable father Gianni. Or that it鈥檚 just an ode to the beauty and power of the mountain nature, specifically the mountains in the north-west of Italy (not the Dolomites, as I see wrongly mentioned in many reviews). And of course, this book is about all these themes, and Cognetti has processed them cleverly. In some ways, this book is similar to that of Nan Shepherd鈥檚 ; her ode to the Scottish Cairn Mountains shows, just like this one by Cognetti, how the landscape itself gives meaning to our lives at least as much as vice versa.
But according to me the central theme of this book is actually Pietro's search for himself. In that sense, this book is another version of the Everyman- or Peer Gynt quest, a beautiful 21st century version of it. The final paragraph in particular summarizes it nicely: 鈥淟ong after I had stopped following my father's paths, I had learned from him that in some lives there are mountains that you cannot return to. That in lives like mine and his, you cannot go back to the mountain that is the center of all others, and the beginning of your own history. And that people like us, who have lost a friend on the first and highest mountain, have no choice but to wander about the eight mountains.鈥�
Perhaps almost all of us spend our entire lives wandering on those eight mountains, yearning for that one big, inaccessible peak in the middle. Cognetti did a great job in reminding us of this.
This is simply one of the best written stories I read in recent years. The tone of narrator Pietro, even though it is a bit restreined, is spot on from start to finish. His eye for details, especially in the descriptions of nature in the mountains, is phenomenal and not just random, but always with an underlying layer. The structure of the book is perfectly balanced, with first a coming of age section very similar to Mark Twain, a surprising middle section in which friendship is central, and the perhaps somewhat predictable final section that still appeals through the sophisticated alternation of episodes. The book is remarkably accessible, no modernist experiments with Cognetti, giving it the space that is typical for a classic story.
Many readers think that this book is only about the beautiful, though unlikely friendship between "professional mountain dweller" Bruno and the city boy Pietro. Or about Pietro's difficult relationship with his inscrutable father Gianni. Or that it鈥檚 just an ode to the beauty and power of the mountain nature, specifically the mountains in the north-west of Italy (not the Dolomites, as I see wrongly mentioned in many reviews). And of course, this book is about all these themes, and Cognetti has processed them cleverly. In some ways, this book is similar to that of Nan Shepherd鈥檚 ; her ode to the Scottish Cairn Mountains shows, just like this one by Cognetti, how the landscape itself gives meaning to our lives at least as much as vice versa.
But according to me the central theme of this book is actually Pietro's search for himself. In that sense, this book is another version of the Everyman- or Peer Gynt quest, a beautiful 21st century version of it. The final paragraph in particular summarizes it nicely: 鈥淟ong after I had stopped following my father's paths, I had learned from him that in some lives there are mountains that you cannot return to. That in lives like mine and his, you cannot go back to the mountain that is the center of all others, and the beginning of your own history. And that people like us, who have lost a friend on the first and highest mountain, have no choice but to wander about the eight mountains.鈥�
Perhaps almost all of us spend our entire lives wandering on those eight mountains, yearning for that one big, inaccessible peak in the middle. Cognetti did a great job in reminding us of this.
July 10, 2022
3/5 Estrellas
Pues ten铆a muchas expectativas puestas sobre este libro y la verdad tampoco me ha parecido nada especial.
Me gusta la naturaleza, pero ni soy monta帽ero, ni alpinista, ni necesito alimentar mi esp铆ritu con salidas peri贸dicas a la monta帽a, como los protagonista de este libro, quiz谩 por eso no me ha llegado lo suficiente.
Me he criado en un entorno rural, he vivido en y del campo y no tengo para nada idealizado este modo de vida, duro y poco gratificante donde los haya, quiz谩 por esto tampoco me ha llegado.
La historia fraternal entre dos amigos tan distintos, ambos amantes de las monta帽as pero provenientes de mundos casi antag贸nicos, tiene su punto tierno y nost谩lgico, pero tampoco me ha parecido nada excepcional
Quiz谩 la figura del padre y la relaci贸n paterno-filial me ha parecido la m谩s interesante del libro, ese quiero y no puedo, esa falta de comunicaci贸n nunca resuelta, esa incompatibilidad de caracteres por ser demasiado iguales, esa reconciliaci贸n que nunca se produjo, esa conversaci贸n que se queda en el tintero y que nunca acaba sucediendo, esos remordimientos que permanecen cuando ya nada tiene soluci贸n......
Tambi茅n me ha gustado que habla de la monta帽a desde el punto de vista de sus habitantes. Un entorno que debe ser conservado, pero tambi茅n aprovechado mediante usos y costumbres tradicionales. Los urbanitas visualizan los bosques, las reservas naturales, como una especie de parque de atracciones que deben permanecer intocados e inviolados, sin darse cuenta que si le impides a los habitantes un m铆nimo aprovechamiento, le plantan cerilla al d铆a siguiente, o los fuerzas a irse y el despoblamiento ocasiona consecuencias similares por abandono del campo y su entorno. En fin, lo vemos todos los a帽os en nuestro pa铆s.
Escritura tierna y evocadora que te encantar谩 si amas la monta帽a y el alpinismo. Si esto te interesa poco o nada, como a mi, pues puede dejarte un poco indiferente. Mi opini贸n claro.
Pues ten铆a muchas expectativas puestas sobre este libro y la verdad tampoco me ha parecido nada especial.
Me gusta la naturaleza, pero ni soy monta帽ero, ni alpinista, ni necesito alimentar mi esp铆ritu con salidas peri贸dicas a la monta帽a, como los protagonista de este libro, quiz谩 por eso no me ha llegado lo suficiente.
Me he criado en un entorno rural, he vivido en y del campo y no tengo para nada idealizado este modo de vida, duro y poco gratificante donde los haya, quiz谩 por esto tampoco me ha llegado.
La historia fraternal entre dos amigos tan distintos, ambos amantes de las monta帽as pero provenientes de mundos casi antag贸nicos, tiene su punto tierno y nost谩lgico, pero tampoco me ha parecido nada excepcional
Quiz谩 la figura del padre y la relaci贸n paterno-filial me ha parecido la m谩s interesante del libro, ese quiero y no puedo, esa falta de comunicaci贸n nunca resuelta, esa incompatibilidad de caracteres por ser demasiado iguales, esa reconciliaci贸n que nunca se produjo, esa conversaci贸n que se queda en el tintero y que nunca acaba sucediendo, esos remordimientos que permanecen cuando ya nada tiene soluci贸n......
Tambi茅n me ha gustado que habla de la monta帽a desde el punto de vista de sus habitantes. Un entorno que debe ser conservado, pero tambi茅n aprovechado mediante usos y costumbres tradicionales. Los urbanitas visualizan los bosques, las reservas naturales, como una especie de parque de atracciones que deben permanecer intocados e inviolados, sin darse cuenta que si le impides a los habitantes un m铆nimo aprovechamiento, le plantan cerilla al d铆a siguiente, o los fuerzas a irse y el despoblamiento ocasiona consecuencias similares por abandono del campo y su entorno. En fin, lo vemos todos los a帽os en nuestro pa铆s.
Escritura tierna y evocadora que te encantar谩 si amas la monta帽a y el alpinismo. Si esto te interesa poco o nada, como a mi, pues puede dejarte un poco indiferente. Mi opini贸n claro.
April 29, 2018
This was a beautifully written story about the friendship of two young Italian boys, Pietro and Bruno 鈥� both of whom come from different backgrounds, yet from the moment they meet, they develop a closeness akin to two brothers. Their friendship is indeed a special one, as Pietro is from the city and though he shares an almost immediate love for the Dolomites 鈥� the mountains located in the northeastern border of Italy where his family travels for vacation 鈥� he does not fully understand the deep relationship that his friend Bruno has with these mountains where he grew up, nor does he understand the inexplicable pull that these same mountains have on his own parents, especially his father. Despite the divergent paths that their lives end up taking and the many months, even years, they often spend apart, the friendship between Pietro and Bruno endures over the course of several decades and later it is through Bruno that Pietro eventually comes to appreciate and connect to the late father with whom he had grown distant over the course of his life. More than just a coming of age story, this is also one that emphasizes the bonds of family, especially that between father and son鈥�.at its core, this is a story about relationships in its many forms 鈥� between friends, various members of the family, love relationships, and of course, relationship with nature and its surrounding landscape.
There were so many things I loved about this atmospheric yet quietly written book: the beautiful descriptions of the mountains and its surrounding landscape, rendered in a way that made the mountains an important character in the story; the lyrical, contemplative prose, writing so full of depth and meaning, yet uncomplicated in its execution 鈥� I found myself highlighting extensively throughout my reading and even stopping at various points just to absorb and reflect upon what I had just read; the characters whom I grew to really care about and root for, characters created by the author Paolo Cognetti so meticulously and presented with obvious care, yet were still realistically portrayed with personalities and flaws that we can all relate to -- characters that, by story鈥檚 end, made me feel a little saddened knowing that I would not be able to continue the journey with them. I also loved the way all the different relationships were portrayed, especially the enduring friendship between Pietro and Bruno as well as the strenuous one between Pietro and his father鈥oth relationships were poignantly drawn 鈥� touching, yet at the same time also heartbreaking.
This was a book that captivated me from the beginning, found its way into my heart, and after that wouldn鈥檛 let go -- a short book, yet one packed with so much depth and meaning. This was a lovely read, one that I won鈥檛 soon forget. Definitely highly recommended!
Received ARC from Atria Books via NetGalley.
There were so many things I loved about this atmospheric yet quietly written book: the beautiful descriptions of the mountains and its surrounding landscape, rendered in a way that made the mountains an important character in the story; the lyrical, contemplative prose, writing so full of depth and meaning, yet uncomplicated in its execution 鈥� I found myself highlighting extensively throughout my reading and even stopping at various points just to absorb and reflect upon what I had just read; the characters whom I grew to really care about and root for, characters created by the author Paolo Cognetti so meticulously and presented with obvious care, yet were still realistically portrayed with personalities and flaws that we can all relate to -- characters that, by story鈥檚 end, made me feel a little saddened knowing that I would not be able to continue the journey with them. I also loved the way all the different relationships were portrayed, especially the enduring friendship between Pietro and Bruno as well as the strenuous one between Pietro and his father鈥oth relationships were poignantly drawn 鈥� touching, yet at the same time also heartbreaking.
This was a book that captivated me from the beginning, found its way into my heart, and after that wouldn鈥檛 let go -- a short book, yet one packed with so much depth and meaning. This was a lovely read, one that I won鈥檛 soon forget. Definitely highly recommended!
Received ARC from Atria Books via NetGalley.
April 24, 2017
#DozzinaStrega2017
鈥淔orse 猫 vero, come sosteneva mia madre, che ognuno di noi ha una quota prediletta in montagna, un paesaggio che gli somiglia e dove si sente bene. La sua era senz鈥檃ltro il bosco dei 1500 metri, quello di abeti e larici, alla cui ombra crescono il mirtillo, il ginepro e il rododendro, e si nascondono i caprioli. Io ero pi煤 attratto dalla montagna che viene dopo: prateria alpina, torrenti, torbiere, erbe d鈥檃lta quota, bestie al pascolo. Ancora pi煤 in alto la vegetazione scompare, la neve copre ogni cosa fino all鈥檌nizio dell鈥檈state e il colore prevalente 猫 il grigio della roccia, venato dal quarzo e intarsiato dal giallo dei licheni. L铆 cominciava il mondo di mio padre.鈥�
Lucido, mimetico, evocativo.
Un bel romanzo italiano.
Pur senza avermi stravolto. [74/100]
鈥淔orse 猫 vero, come sosteneva mia madre, che ognuno di noi ha una quota prediletta in montagna, un paesaggio che gli somiglia e dove si sente bene. La sua era senz鈥檃ltro il bosco dei 1500 metri, quello di abeti e larici, alla cui ombra crescono il mirtillo, il ginepro e il rododendro, e si nascondono i caprioli. Io ero pi煤 attratto dalla montagna che viene dopo: prateria alpina, torrenti, torbiere, erbe d鈥檃lta quota, bestie al pascolo. Ancora pi煤 in alto la vegetazione scompare, la neve copre ogni cosa fino all鈥檌nizio dell鈥檈state e il colore prevalente 猫 il grigio della roccia, venato dal quarzo e intarsiato dal giallo dei licheni. L铆 cominciava il mondo di mio padre.鈥�
Lucido, mimetico, evocativo.
Un bel romanzo italiano.
Pur senza avermi stravolto. [74/100]
June 11, 2021
Racconta un mito buddista che esiste una montagna molto alta, il Sumeru. Attorno ad essa, otto montagne e otto mari compongono il mondo come lo conosciamo. Ci sono quelli che tentano di raggiungere la cima del Sumeru, testardi, e ci sono quelli che si dedicano a viaggiare sulle altre montagne, vagando senza meta. Alla fine della vita, chi ha imparato di pi霉? Chi ha raggiunto la cuspide della montagna sacra o chi ha vagato per la periferia?
Questo mito ha ispirato "Le otto montagne" (2016), Premio Strega e bestseller in diversi paesi, che ha consolidato Paolo Cognetti come uno degli scrittori italiani pi霉 interessanti, e non meno discusso, del momento.
Scrive con parole semplici, ma con significati profondi; uno stile temperato, fluido e sottile che penetra senza difficolt脿 nel lettore. Il problema principale 猫 che cade troppe volte nei luoghi pi霉 comuni e arrivato a un punto stanca sentire parlare sempre della montagna in maniera artificiosa.
Si tratta di un romanzo sull'amicizia tra due uomini di carattere introverso, una relazione fatta di silenzi. Personaggi e amicizia per貌 non tanto credibili, troppo naif.
L'altra questione rilevante 猫 la paternit脿. L'importanza del ruolo del padre, cos矛 come la simbolica "eredit脿"; sia Pietro che Bruno, i protagonisti, ripetono lo schema dei rispettivi genitori, dal rifiuto istintivo alla ripetizione involontaria. In questo senso la storia 猫 circolare, perch茅 collega il passato con il presente.
Una lettura (senza aggettivo).
Questo mito ha ispirato "Le otto montagne" (2016), Premio Strega e bestseller in diversi paesi, che ha consolidato Paolo Cognetti come uno degli scrittori italiani pi霉 interessanti, e non meno discusso, del momento.
Scrive con parole semplici, ma con significati profondi; uno stile temperato, fluido e sottile che penetra senza difficolt脿 nel lettore. Il problema principale 猫 che cade troppe volte nei luoghi pi霉 comuni e arrivato a un punto stanca sentire parlare sempre della montagna in maniera artificiosa.
"Quel che dovevo proteggere, in me, era la capacit脿 di stare solo. C鈥檈ra voluto del tempo per abituarmi alla solitudine, farne un luogo in cui potevo accomodarmi e stare bene; eppure sentivo che tra noi il rapporto era sempre difficile. Cos矛 me ne andavo verso casa come riprendendo confidenza con lei. Se il cielo non era coperto, ben presto spegnevo la frontale. Bastavano un quarto di luna e le stelle per intuire il sentiero tra i larici. Niente si muoveva a quell'ora tranne i miei passi e il torrente, che continuava a scrosciare e gorgogliare mentre il bosco dormiva. Nel silenzio la sua voce era chiara e potevo distinguere i toni di ogni ansa, rapida, cascata, attutiti dal folto della vegetazione e via via pi霉 nitidi sulla pietraia."
Si tratta di un romanzo sull'amicizia tra due uomini di carattere introverso, una relazione fatta di silenzi. Personaggi e amicizia per貌 non tanto credibili, troppo naif.
L'altra questione rilevante 猫 la paternit脿. L'importanza del ruolo del padre, cos矛 come la simbolica "eredit脿"; sia Pietro che Bruno, i protagonisti, ripetono lo schema dei rispettivi genitori, dal rifiuto istintivo alla ripetizione involontaria. In questo senso la storia 猫 circolare, perch茅 collega il passato con il presente.
"Se il punto in cui ti immergi in un fiume 猫 il presente, pensai, allora il passato 猫 l鈥檃cqua che ti ha superato, quella che va verso il basso e dove non c鈥櫭� pi霉 niente per te, mentre il futuro 猫 l鈥檃cqua che scende dall'alto, portando pericoli e sorprese. Il passato 猫 a valle, il futuro a monte. Ecco come avrei dovuto rispondere a mio padre. Qualunque cosa sia il destino, abita nelle montagne che abbiamo sopra la testa.
Una lettura (senza aggettivo).
June 26, 2022
袛邪 褋械 褉邪蟹褍屑械屑芯, 芯胁邪 泻褮懈谐邪 薪懈褬械 褉械屑械泻-写械谢芯, 邪谢懈 褬械 褌芯锌谢邪, 锌懈褌泻邪, 褋褌胁芯褉械薪邪 蟹邪 褔懈褌邪褮械 褍 锌邪褍蟹懈 芯写 锌谢邪薪懈薪邪褉械褮邪 懈谢懈 褕械褌褮械 褍 锌褉懈褉芯写懈.
笑械薪褌褉邪谢薪械 褌械屑械 褋褍 芯写薪芯褋 芯褑邪 懈 褋懈薪邪, 泻邪芯 懈 芯写薪芯褋 懈蟹屑械褣褍 写胁邪 屑褍褕泻邪褉褑邪, 锌褉懈褬邪褌械褭邪 芯写 写械褌懈褮褋褌胁邪 鈥� 袩褬械褌褉邪, 鈥炐逞€邪写褋泻芯谐鈥� 写械褌械褌邪 泻芯褬懈 褍 锌谢邪薪懈薪褍 写芯谢邪蟹懈 褋邪屑芯 薪邪 谢械褌褮械屑 褉邪褋锌褍褋褌褍 懈 袘褉褍薪邪, 锌褉邪胁芯谐 谐芯褉褕褌邪泻邪 泻芯褬械屑 褬械 锌谢邪薪懈薪邪 褑械芯 卸懈胁芯褌. 袨写 写械褔邪褔泻懈褏 薪械褋褌邪褕谢褍泻邪 懈 斜械褋褑懈褭薪芯谐 谢械褌褮械谐 谢褍锟斤拷邪褮邪, 褉邪蟹胁懈褯械 褋械 锌褉懈褬邪褌械褭褋褌胁芯, 写褍斜芯泻芯, 邪谢懈 褋褌懈褕邪薪芯, 褍 泻芯屑械 褋械 斜械蟹 屑薪芯谐芯 褉械褔懈 锌芯褋褌懈卸械 褉邪蟹褍屑械胁邪褮械. 袩褬械褌褉芯胁 芯写薪芯褋 褋邪 芯褑械屑 褬械, 锌邪泻, 写褉褍谐邪褔懈褬懈, 泻芯屑锌谢械泻褋邪薪 懈 褍 褋褍褕褌懈薪懈 褋械 褮懈褏 写胁芯褬懈褑邪 薪懈泻邪写邪 薪械褯械 褉邪蟹褍屑械褌懈. 小胁械 芯胁芯 褍泻谢芯锌褭械薪芯 褬械 褍 锌褉械谢械锌懈 锌械褬蟹邪卸 懈褌邪谢懈褬邪薪褋泻懈褏 袗谢锌邪, 屑芯褯薪芯谐 锌谢邪薪懈薪褋泻芯谐 屑邪褋懈胁邪, 褔懈褬械 谢械锌芯褌械, 邪谢懈 懈 褋褍褉芯胁芯褋褌懈 锌懈褋邪褑 褍褋锌械褕薪芯 芯锌懈褋褍褬械.
袣芯褮械褌懈 锌懈褕械 褬械写薪芯褋褌邪胁薪芯, 褍褋锌械褕薪芯 锌褉懈泻邪蟹褍褬褍褯懈 褉邪蟹谢懈褔懈褌械 锌褋懈褏芯谢芯褕泻械 锌褉芯褎懈谢械 褋胁芯褬懈褏 褬褍薪邪泻邪, 斜械蟹 锌邪褌械褌懈泻械, 邪 屑芯褉邪屑 褉械褯懈 懈 写邪 屑械 褬械 锌芯蟹懈褌懈胁薪芯 懈蟹薪械薪邪写懈芯 懈蟹芯褋褌邪薪邪泻 褏械锌懈 械薪写懈薪谐邪.
袘邪褕 褋邪屑 褍卸懈胁邪芯 褍 褔懈褌邪褮褍.
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袣芯褮械褌懈 锌懈褕械 褬械写薪芯褋褌邪胁薪芯, 褍褋锌械褕薪芯 锌褉懈泻邪蟹褍褬褍褯懈 褉邪蟹谢懈褔懈褌械 锌褋懈褏芯谢芯褕泻械 锌褉芯褎懈谢械 褋胁芯褬懈褏 褬褍薪邪泻邪, 斜械蟹 锌邪褌械褌懈泻械, 邪 屑芯褉邪屑 褉械褯懈 懈 写邪 屑械 褬械 锌芯蟹懈褌懈胁薪芯 懈蟹薪械薪邪写懈芯 懈蟹芯褋褌邪薪邪泻 褏械锌懈 械薪写懈薪谐邪.
袘邪褕 褋邪屑 褍卸懈胁邪芯 褍 褔懈褌邪褮褍.
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讴賵賴鈥屬囏� 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賳賯卮 賲賴賲蹖 丿丕乇賳丿. 噩丿丕蹖 丕夭 丨囟賵乇 賴賲蹖卮诏蹖 丿乇 賮囟丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳貙 噩丕蹖蹖 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘賴 賳賯賱 丕夭 丕賮爻丕賳賴鈥屫й� 賯丿蹖賲蹖 賮賱爻賮賴 賴卮鬲 讴賵賴 鬲毓乇蹖賮 賲蹖卮賴.胤亘賯 丕蹖賳 丕賮爻丕賳賴 賯丿蹖賲蹖貙 丿乇 賲乇讴夭 夭賲蹖賳 讴賵賴 亘賱賳丿蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 爻賵賲乇賵 賯乇丕乇 诏乇賮鬲賴 賵 丕胤乇丕賮卮 亘丕 賴卮鬲 讴賵賴 讴賴 鬲賵爻胤 賴卮鬲 丿乇蹖丕 噩丿丕 卮丿賴 丕丨丕胤賴 卮丿賴.丿乇 丕丿丕賲賴 爻賵丕賱 賲賴賲蹖 賲胤乇丨 賲蹖卮賴: 趩賴 讴爻蹖 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丌賲賵禺鬲賴貙 丌賳讴賴 亘賴 賴賲賴 賴卮鬲 讴賵賴 乇賮鬲賴 蹖丕 丌賳讴賴 亘賴 賯賱賴鈥屰� 爻賵賲乇賵 乇爻蹖丿賴責 倬蹖鬲乇賵 賵 亘乇賵賳賵 賴乇 讴丿賵賲卮賵賳貙 蹖讴 胤乇賮 丕蹖賳 爻賵丕賱 賯乇丕乇 賲蹖鈥屭屫辟嗀� 賵 賲爻蹖乇蹖 乇賵 胤蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 賵 卮丕蹖丿 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘賴 鬲賵噩賴 亘賴 爻乇丕賳噩丕賲 卮禺氐蹖鬲鈥屬囏ж� 乇賵卮 丕賳鬲禺丕蹖蹖 倬蹖賵鬲乇 乇賵 賲賳丕爻亘鈥屫� 丿賵賳爻鬲賴. 賮讴乇 讴乇丿賳 亘賴 丕蹖賳 爻賵丕賱 賲蹖鬲賵賳賴 爻賵睾丕鬲蹖 丕蹖賳 丕孬乇 亘乇丕蹖 賲禺丕胤亘 亘丕卮賴.
賴卮鬲 讴賵賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賴蹖噩丕賳 賵 賳賯胤賴 丕賵噩蹖 賳丿丕乇賴 賵 亘丕 蹖讴 乇蹖鬲賲 丌乇丕賲 乇賵丕蹖鬲 賲蹖卮賴.倬爻 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 蹖讴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 倬乇賴蹖噩丕賳 倬乇 丕鬲賮丕賯 賳丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮蹖丿. 賵賱蹖 丕诏乇 丿賱 亘賴 乇賵丕蹖鬲 賱胤蹖賮 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 亘丿蹖丿貙 卮丕蹖丿 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲胤丕賱毓丕鬲蹖 禺賵亘蹖 亘乇丕鬲賵賳 亘丕卮賴. .賲賳 亘賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬囏й� 乇蹖鬲賲 讴賳丿 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屫й� 賳丿丕乇賲 賵 爻賱蹖賯賴鈥屫з� 賳蹖爻鬲 賵賱蹖 亘丕 丕蹖賳 賵噩賵丿 賴卮鬲 讴賵賴 乇賵 丿賵爻鬲 丿丕卮鬲賲.賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁� 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 噩丕賴丕蹖蹖 丕夭 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿爻鬲 诏匕丕卮鬲 乇賵 賳賯丕胤蹖 讴賴 賲蹖鬲賵賳賴 丕丨爻丕爻丕鬲賲賵 亘乇丕賳诏蹖禺鬲賴 讴賳賴 賵 賴賲蹖賳 亘丕毓孬 卮丿 丿賵爻鬲卮 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賲.
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丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘爻蹖丕乇 夭蹖亘丕蹖蹖 丕夭 蹖讴 賳賵賷爻賳丿賴鈥屰� 賲毓丕氐乇 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕蹖蹖 丕爻鬲. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 倬爻乇蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 倬蹖鬲乇賵 讴賴 倬丿乇 賵 賲丕丿乇蹖 讴賵賴賳賵乇丿 賵 毓賱丕賯賲賳丿 亘賴 胤亘蹖毓鬲 丿丕乇丿. 丕夭 夭賲丕賳 讴賵丿讴蹖 倬蹖鬲乇賵貙 倬爻乇 賲夭乇毓賴鈥屫ж臂� 賮賯蹖乇 亘賴 賳丕賲 亘乇賵賳賵 賵丕乇丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌賳鈥屬囏� 卮丿賴 賵 亘丕 賵乇賵丿 丕賵 倬蹖鬲乇賵 丕亘鬲丿丕 丨爻丕丿鬲 讴乇丿賴 賵賱蹖 亘毓丿 丿乇 爻賳蹖賳 噩賵丕賳蹖 丨囟賵乇 亘乇賵賳賵 亘丕毓孬 诏卮丕蹖卮 丿乇賴丕蹖蹖 丕夭 丌賳鈥屭嗁� 讴賴 丕賵 賳賲蹖鈥屫з嗀� 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�.
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丕诏乇 亘賴 讴賵賴賳賵乇丿蹖 賵 诏卮鬲 賵 诏匕丕乇 丿乇 胤亘蹖毓鬲 毓賱丕賯賴 丿丕乇蹖丿 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 賳賯胤賴鈥屰� 毓胤賮蹖 亘丕卮賴. 趩乇丕 讴賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 毓蹖賳 爻丕丿诏蹖 賵丕賯毓丕 夭蹖亘丕 賵 亘丕 丕丨爻丕爻 乇賵丕蹖鬲 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲.
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丿乇 夭賲丕賳 丨蹖丕鬲 倬丿乇貙 倬蹖鬲乇賵 賳鬲賵丕賳爻鬲賴 亘丕 丕賵 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 亘诏蹖乇丿 賵 毓賱鬲 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屰� 丕賵 乇丕 亘賴 胤亘蹖毓鬲 賵 亘禺氐賵氐 讴賵賴鈥屬囏� 丿乇讴 讴賳丿 賵賱蹖 亘毓丿賴丕 亘丕 丿賵爻鬲蹖 丿賵亘丕乇賴 賵 乇賮鬲 賵 丌賲丿 亘丕 亘乇賵賳賵貙 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 賲爻丕卅賱蹖 乇丕 讴賴 賯亘賱丕 丕夭 丿乇讴卮丕賳 毓丕噩夭 亘賵丿賴 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屬佡囐呚�. 丿乇 賵丕賯毓 讴賵賴鈥屬囏� 鬲賳賴丕 賲賳亘毓蹖 賲蹖鈥屫促堎嗀� 讴賴 倬蹖鬲乇賵 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 丕夭 胤乇蹖賯 丌賳鈥屬囏� 亘丕 倬丿乇卮 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 亘乇賯乇丕乇 讴賳丿 賵 丕賵 乇丕 亘賮賴賲丿.
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亘賴 胤賵乇讴賱蹖 讴賵賴鈥屬囏� 賵 胤亘蹖毓鬲 鬲賳賴丕 趩蹖夭蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 亘丕毓孬 賴賲鈥屫ㄘ池� 丕蹖賳 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 卮丿 賵 倬賱 賵 賳賯胤賴鈥屰� 丕鬲氐丕賱 賯賴乇賲丕賳丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕爻鬲.
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讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕蹖 蹖丕丿丌賵乇蹖 賲賮丕賴蹖賲蹖 丕夭 噩賲賱賴 賱匕鬲 賵 賮賱爻賮賴鈥屰� 夭賳丿诏蹖貙 乇賵丕亘胤 倬丿乇 賵 倬爻乇蹖貙 毓卮賯貙 賲丨亘鬲 賵 丿賵爻鬲蹖 禺賵亘 毓賲賱 讴乇丿賴 丕爻鬲.
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丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳 蹖讴 乇賲丕賳 乇賵丕賳鈥屫促嗀ж� 賴賲 蹖丕丿 卮丿賴 夭蹖乇丕 亘賴 賵囟賵丨 賲卮禺氐 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇禺蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲鈥屬囏� 丿乇 亘蹖丕賳 丕丨爻丕爻丕鬲 賳丕鬲賵丕賳 賴爻鬲賳丿 賵 丕蹖賳 趩賯丿乇 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 丿乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌賳鈥屬囏� 丕孬乇诏匕丕乇 亘丕卮丿.
丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘爻蹖丕乇 夭蹖亘丕蹖蹖 丕夭 蹖讴 賳賵賷爻賳丿賴鈥屰� 賲毓丕氐乇 丕蹖鬲丕賱蹖丕蹖蹖 丕爻鬲. 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 倬爻乇蹖 亘賴 賳丕賲 倬蹖鬲乇賵 讴賴 倬丿乇 賵 賲丕丿乇蹖 讴賵賴賳賵乇丿 賵 毓賱丕賯賲賳丿 亘賴 胤亘蹖毓鬲 丿丕乇丿. 丕夭 夭賲丕賳 讴賵丿讴蹖 倬蹖鬲乇賵貙 倬爻乇 賲夭乇毓賴鈥屫ж臂� 賮賯蹖乇 亘賴 賳丕賲 亘乇賵賳賵 賵丕乇丿 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌賳鈥屬囏� 卮丿賴 賵 亘丕 賵乇賵丿 丕賵 倬蹖鬲乇賵 丕亘鬲丿丕 丨爻丕丿鬲 讴乇丿賴 賵賱蹖 亘毓丿 丿乇 爻賳蹖賳 噩賵丕賳蹖 丨囟賵乇 亘乇賵賳賵 亘丕毓孬 诏卮丕蹖卮 丿乇賴丕蹖蹖 丕夭 丌賳鈥屭嗁� 讴賴 丕賵 賳賲蹖鈥屫з嗀� 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�.
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丕诏乇 亘賴 讴賵賴賳賵乇丿蹖 賵 诏卮鬲 賵 诏匕丕乇 丿乇 胤亘蹖毓鬲 毓賱丕賯賴 丿丕乇蹖丿 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗁� 賳賯胤賴鈥屰� 毓胤賮蹖 亘丕卮賴. 趩乇丕 讴賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 毓蹖賳 爻丕丿诏蹖 賵丕賯毓丕 夭蹖亘丕 賵 亘丕 丕丨爻丕爻 乇賵丕蹖鬲 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲.
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丿乇 夭賲丕賳 丨蹖丕鬲 倬丿乇貙 倬蹖鬲乇賵 賳鬲賵丕賳爻鬲賴 亘丕 丕賵 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 亘诏蹖乇丿 賵 毓賱鬲 毓賱丕賯賴鈥屰� 丕賵 乇丕 亘賴 胤亘蹖毓鬲 賵 亘禺氐賵氐 讴賵賴鈥屬囏� 丿乇讴 讴賳丿 賵賱蹖 亘毓丿賴丕 亘丕 丿賵爻鬲蹖 丿賵亘丕乇賴 賵 乇賮鬲 賵 丌賲丿 亘丕 亘乇賵賳賵貙 禺蹖賱蹖 丕夭 賲爻丕卅賱蹖 乇丕 讴賴 賯亘賱丕 丕夭 丿乇讴卮丕賳 毓丕噩夭 亘賵丿賴 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屬佡囐呚�. 丿乇 賵丕賯毓 讴賵賴鈥屬囏� 鬲賳賴丕 賲賳亘毓蹖 賲蹖鈥屫促堎嗀� 讴賴 倬蹖鬲乇賵 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 丕夭 胤乇蹖賯 丌賳鈥屬囏� 亘丕 倬丿乇卮 丕乇鬲亘丕胤 亘乇賯乇丕乇 讴賳丿 賵 丕賵 乇丕 亘賮賴賲丿.
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亘賴 胤賵乇讴賱蹖 讴賵賴鈥屬囏� 賵 胤亘蹖毓鬲 鬲賳賴丕 趩蹖夭蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 亘丕毓孬 賴賲鈥屫ㄘ池� 丕蹖賳 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 卮丿 賵 倬賱 賵 賳賯胤賴鈥屰� 丕鬲氐丕賱 賯賴乇賲丕賳丕賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕爻鬲.
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讴鬲丕亘 亘乇丕蹖 蹖丕丿丌賵乇蹖 賲賮丕賴蹖賲蹖 丕夭 噩賲賱賴 賱匕鬲 賵 賮賱爻賮賴鈥屰� 夭賳丿诏蹖貙 乇賵丕亘胤 倬丿乇 賵 倬爻乇蹖貙 毓卮賯貙 賲丨亘鬲 賵 丿賵爻鬲蹖 禺賵亘 毓賲賱 讴乇丿賴 丕爻鬲.
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丕夭 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 毓賳賵丕賳 蹖讴 乇賲丕賳 乇賵丕賳鈥屫促嗀ж� 賴賲 蹖丕丿 卮丿賴 夭蹖乇丕 亘賴 賵囟賵丨 賲卮禺氐 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇禺蹖 卮禺氐蹖鬲鈥屬囏� 丿乇 亘蹖丕賳 丕丨爻丕爻丕鬲 賳丕鬲賵丕賳 賴爻鬲賳丿 賵 丕蹖賳 趩賯丿乇 賲蹖鈥屫堌з嗀� 丿乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌賳鈥屬囏� 丕孬乇诏匕丕乇 亘丕卮丿.
August 29, 2018
Come un mandala
Libro dall鈥檌ndubbia matrice autobiografica al sapor di montagna, non lascia indifferenti tutti coloro che la amano o la praticano direttamente o indirettamente. Chi scrive abita in una pianura, la pi霉 estesa della Sardegna, Il Campidano, nel mezzo appunto, Il Medio Campidano, e la montagna 猫 entrata nella sua vita attraverso la mediazione del suo uomo, prima il ragazzo dell鈥檃dolescenza poi il marito della faticosa vita adulta. Lui la pratica con pi霉 passione, 猫 la sua passione come la mia 猫 leggere, e io ne capisco di montagna quanto lui delle mie letture: qualche volta ci rimane avviluppato con un ingombro fisico, i libri per casa sparsi, altre volte con le suggestioni di lettura che entrano nel quotidiano delle conversazioni funzionali, quelle del comune vivere, altre ancora quando le nostre letture, per una strana alchimia si incrociano. Ed 猫 stata la volta di Cognetti, lui ha acquistato il libro, io l鈥檋o letto per prima. L鈥檋o divorato perch茅 si legge d鈥檜n colpo e la montagna 猫 rientrata nella mia vita. Dopo le prime escursioni per le cale del nostro Supramonte di Baunei, dopo qualche incursione nel pi霉 vicino Linas, dopo i primi approcci con le Alpi, Trentino , Valle d鈥橝osta e le Orobie lombarde, dopo il Tirolo austriaco, dopo i resoconti pi霉 fotografici che orali dal Makalu, dal Masnatu e da altre regioni nepalesi, con alle pareti di casa mandala o ritratti di maternit脿/serenit脿 coi volti felici di madri e figli, mi ritrovo a condividere tutto il contenuto di questo bel libro, io nel basso del Medio Campidano.
Sensazioni di camminata, ambienti che si susseguono, preferenze tra il bosco o la nuda roccia, fatica, malessere, pace, silenzio, rigenerazione .... il fissare l鈥檃mbiente che si vive pochi giorni all鈥檃nno e non pensare che l鈥檌nverno lo trasfigura rendendolo irriconoscibile. Il verde e il bianco, i prati o la neve, l鈥檃ndare e lo stare, la vacanza, la vita quotidiana. La montagna 猫 dura, non ci sono dubbi, per chi la disturba in vacanza, come capita a me, ma ancora di pi霉 per chi ci 猫 nato e ci vive. Eppure, proprio questo legame con la Terra di appartenenza la rende cos矛 preziosa per chi ci 猫 nato e per chi ne ha ricevuto l鈥檌mprinting frequentandola da piccolo. Ci si ritorna, sempre. Questo libro racconta dunque la storia di un andare e tornare per la montagna seguendo le direttici primarie di due cittadini: un padre e un figlio, ognuno con le sue ragioni. In mezzo, il restare ostinato di chi ci 猫 sempre stato, un giovane montanaro accolto, di traverso, nella famiglia cittadina durante le sue permanenze estive nel territorio che gli appartiene e che gli altri attraversano. Movimento, in fondo di questo si tratta, all鈥檕mbra della metafora che nutre la storia delle otto montagne (niente a che vedere con una lista di cime scalate): quale linea seguire? Quale percorso di vita? Seguendo la direttrice verticale o quella circolare. Ognuno persegue il proprio cammino, nessuno 猫 avulso dall鈥檈rrore, tutti portano alla meta, la propria. Buona lettura.
Libro dall鈥檌ndubbia matrice autobiografica al sapor di montagna, non lascia indifferenti tutti coloro che la amano o la praticano direttamente o indirettamente. Chi scrive abita in una pianura, la pi霉 estesa della Sardegna, Il Campidano, nel mezzo appunto, Il Medio Campidano, e la montagna 猫 entrata nella sua vita attraverso la mediazione del suo uomo, prima il ragazzo dell鈥檃dolescenza poi il marito della faticosa vita adulta. Lui la pratica con pi霉 passione, 猫 la sua passione come la mia 猫 leggere, e io ne capisco di montagna quanto lui delle mie letture: qualche volta ci rimane avviluppato con un ingombro fisico, i libri per casa sparsi, altre volte con le suggestioni di lettura che entrano nel quotidiano delle conversazioni funzionali, quelle del comune vivere, altre ancora quando le nostre letture, per una strana alchimia si incrociano. Ed 猫 stata la volta di Cognetti, lui ha acquistato il libro, io l鈥檋o letto per prima. L鈥檋o divorato perch茅 si legge d鈥檜n colpo e la montagna 猫 rientrata nella mia vita. Dopo le prime escursioni per le cale del nostro Supramonte di Baunei, dopo qualche incursione nel pi霉 vicino Linas, dopo i primi approcci con le Alpi, Trentino , Valle d鈥橝osta e le Orobie lombarde, dopo il Tirolo austriaco, dopo i resoconti pi霉 fotografici che orali dal Makalu, dal Masnatu e da altre regioni nepalesi, con alle pareti di casa mandala o ritratti di maternit脿/serenit脿 coi volti felici di madri e figli, mi ritrovo a condividere tutto il contenuto di questo bel libro, io nel basso del Medio Campidano.
Sensazioni di camminata, ambienti che si susseguono, preferenze tra il bosco o la nuda roccia, fatica, malessere, pace, silenzio, rigenerazione .... il fissare l鈥檃mbiente che si vive pochi giorni all鈥檃nno e non pensare che l鈥檌nverno lo trasfigura rendendolo irriconoscibile. Il verde e il bianco, i prati o la neve, l鈥檃ndare e lo stare, la vacanza, la vita quotidiana. La montagna 猫 dura, non ci sono dubbi, per chi la disturba in vacanza, come capita a me, ma ancora di pi霉 per chi ci 猫 nato e ci vive. Eppure, proprio questo legame con la Terra di appartenenza la rende cos矛 preziosa per chi ci 猫 nato e per chi ne ha ricevuto l鈥檌mprinting frequentandola da piccolo. Ci si ritorna, sempre. Questo libro racconta dunque la storia di un andare e tornare per la montagna seguendo le direttici primarie di due cittadini: un padre e un figlio, ognuno con le sue ragioni. In mezzo, il restare ostinato di chi ci 猫 sempre stato, un giovane montanaro accolto, di traverso, nella famiglia cittadina durante le sue permanenze estive nel territorio che gli appartiene e che gli altri attraversano. Movimento, in fondo di questo si tratta, all鈥檕mbra della metafora che nutre la storia delle otto montagne (niente a che vedere con una lista di cime scalate): quale linea seguire? Quale percorso di vita? Seguendo la direttrice verticale o quella circolare. Ognuno persegue il proprio cammino, nessuno 猫 avulso dall鈥檈rrore, tutti portano alla meta, la propria. Buona lettura.
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