Sometimes it happens - and unfortunately more and more frequently - that reading a novel involves and captures so much that interrupt task can not be postponed for a few sounds almost disaster. It 's the first observation that comes about La Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano. At least this happened to me, and I will try to explain why.
Meanwhile, and above all, because the stories told about the seasons of life - childhood, adolescence, early childhood within the family, school and friendship groups - which are universal experience. The book pertains to the ranks of the novels of education, for staging what happens to a person who, without having asked for it or have been previously consulted, that comes to household in that particular social context, how it responds and interacts - fits and / or opposes - with individuals, roles, expectations, how to face and overcome, or not, the steps - sometimes very difficult - a path and a fate already largely defined.
obligations and responsibilities, rules tacit or explicit collusion and dislikes, friendships and enmities, loneliness and inadequacies, exclusions and cruelty, a sense of belonging or of irreducible strangeness, everything is warp and weave a path from all experienced, made up of winding curves and steep hikes, and sudden sleep slopes, obstacles and lay-bys - up to the final and definitive.
This is not particularly new in the literature: trial, rather than for any self-respecting novelist. What Jordan and his debut at the age of 26 years, comes out well from the test? That is gathered from the first page that his voice, his writing is animated by a genuine true. The events and the lives of the protagonists evolve a character of perceived need strong first in the author himself: a prerequisite, this, because they can play live and persuasive to the reader, and not the result of artifice designed desk. While not describing himself in person, you feel the author is fully participatory and involved in telling the facts, but also being able to put between himself and the incandescent matter, somehow doubt experienced, the detachment that allows him to dominate until they reach the required form.
The state of grace which draws on the account is transferred to alchemically us reading, allowing us to capture the data truth of the figures involved to recognize the special nature of their stories is unique and unrepeatable.
The 26-year old Duke has understood, and perfectly made in the book, that life is to deal with the irreducible ambivalence of feelings, with the enigma of meetings sometimes happy, often unhappy, that relieve a condition of solitude constitutive , or the seal permanently.
Another component that the author highlights is the chance that determines much of our trails. Better yet, how thin the line and confused, and unstable equilibrium in the game of the meeting and clash of wills soggettive. E quanto basti a volte un sospiro inavvertitamente emesso, un sorriso mancato, uno sguardo non controllato, una parola di troppo - o proprio quella necessaria scioccamente omessa - a determinare conseguenze irreparabili.
Noi – suggerisce “La solitudine dei numeri primi” - siamo in balia di pulsioni e forze che scarsamente conosciamo, comunque non controlliamo, o ci illudiamo di riuscire a dominare. Ci culliamo nell’illusione che bastino le belle intenzioni, i buoni consigli, i piccoli rituali rassicuranti per uscirne indenni. Ci troviamo, inaspettatamente e all’improvviso, ad affrontare drammi determinati da una catena di interazioni che viltà e debolezza, impreparazione, superficialità and impotence in most cases prevent us from time to understand and address.
Jordan's book is not, of course, a thesis does not claim to prove or necessarily convincing. It is a book seething with effettacci and lights or cry, is in fact suffused with a melancholy pathos and discreet - and this particularly effective. The light that illuminates and side slope is that of understanding and compassion for the lives and stories that stages. It 'too hard and cruel in the sense that it is not comforting slyly, pretending not to beautify or make less think and suffer. Look what this life is here, say the pages of the story. It 's a tale that suddenly breaks and you can also break, a dream that can suddenly turn into a nightmare.
In the life of good family and high society dramas and tragedies come creeping in, almost unexpected and further choices and behavior motivated by the best intentions. And it is hard, especially for children and teenagers, to be able to find their way and survive with a combination of disaffection and anger that previous encounter. And where, fortunately, and somehow make it, the aftermath of trauma, fractures and wounds is terrible and painful.
In book, Duke has infused - making it a participant in some way, almost by magic spell, the player - his ability to look deeper, giving us so the benefits of gift which may be capable of writing the miracle. That this is the first opera by an author so young adds confidence and admiration for what proved he knows his life.
This is a book that I did mention the ability to empathize el'afflato Morante creature of the theater of cruelty of Artaud, the record intense, accurate and desolate of the first clandestine homosexual experiences of Edmund White, the wonder in the telling the world, so caught com 'is cruel and amused by the look of Holden Caulfield.
This is a book that has no sponsors or guarantors, and born of self and tax under its own power, not owe anything to any congregation or school. For this in academia and in small cracks his literary success is causing concern and alarm as happens to the bats in a cave filled with a sudden blinding light.
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