Microfiction

Microfiction

by Margaret Atwood
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/03/2023

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Lavorando di forbici Margaret Atwood ci regala trentacinque piccole perle narrative costruite per sottrazione e sintesi originale di un materiale umano e letterario sconfinato: fiabe, apologhi, dialoghi di fantascienza, fantapolitica, fantaletteratura, monologhi incalzanti, dialoghi serrati. Ne risulta una micronarrativa che ci restituisce con implacabile accuratezza e chirurgica precisione l'essenza e il paradosso della realtà. I personaggi più disparati affollano queste storie di vita, ciascuno portando un tassello al puzzle di una verità ogni volta sorprendente. Incontriamo vestiti dismessi, vecchie foto, la voce ribelle di una cantante, i giovani ambiziosi, le mamme di una volta, un gatto in paradiso, un bambino abbandonato sulla chioma di un albero...

Una lettura che regala emozioni vibranti, una scrittura che dimostra un'intelligenza acutissima: non si tratta soltanto di letteratura; d'altro canto, come spiega Atwood in un racconto: 'se era lo stile narrativo che volevate, avreste dovuto chiederlo prima, quando sapevo tutto ed ero più che disposta a dirlo. Prima che scoprissi le virtù delle forbici, le virtù dei fiammiferi'.

ISBN:
9788868339128
9788868339128
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-03-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ponte alle Grazie
Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.

Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007.

Her non-fiction book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth ­ in the Massey series, appeared in 2008, and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood, in the autumn of 2009. Ms. Atwood's work has been published in more than forty languages, including Farsi, Japanese, Turkish, Finnish, Korean, Icelandic and Estonian. In 2004 she co-invented the Long Pen TM. Margaret Atwood currently lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.

Associations: Margaret Atwood was President of the Writers' Union of Canada from May 1981 to May 1982, and was President of International P.E.N., Canadian Centre (English Speaking) from 1984-1986. She and Graeme Gibson are the Joint Honourary Presidents of the Rare Bird Society within BirdLife International. Ms. Atwood is also a current Vice-President of PEN International.

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