Mr. Gwyn
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Descrizione dell’editore
Jedna od najneobičnijih priča o ljubavi koju ćete ikad pročitati.
Dragulj literarne fikcije.
Alessandro Baricco voli neobične likove – pomalo pomaknute osamljenike koji su odlučili slijediti svoje snove. Jasper Gwyn jedan je od takvih. Cijenjeni pisac, ćudljiv i suptilan četrdesettrogodišnjak, na prvi pogled zadovoljan svojim životom, iznenada odluči prestati pisati i nestati u očima svojih čitatelja.
Potajno kreće u novi izazov: želi „pisati portrete“, ostvariti potpuno jedinstven oblik umjetničkog izričaja u kojem pojedinci nisu likovi nego priče. Portrete neće objaviti, već će ih dati svojim modelima uz uvjet da ih ni oni nikada ne smiju objaviti. Nalazi atelijer, svjetlo, zvuk, atmosferu i dekor, a onda i Rebeccu, djevojku koja postaje njegov prvi model i svojevrsni stožer romana koji povezuje sve likove. U tišini atelijera nastavlja se priča o pisanju kao intimnom ritualu i jedno unutarnje putovanje s nepredvidljivim ishodom…
Alessandro Baricco rođen je 1958. godine. Jedan je od najcjenjenijih i najčitanijih suvremenih europskih autora. Prema mišljenju kritičara, Mr. Gwyn njegov je najbolji roman još od Svile.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A prolific European master often compared to Italo Calvino, Baricco is still best known in the States for the cult classic Silk but that should change with this enigmatic novel, which offers genial weirdness unparalleled this side of Haruki Murakami. Posing as a pair of novellas, the book centers on Jasper Gwyn, an acclaimed author who, to his agent's despair, has cheerfully given up his career. But Gwyn soon finds a new vocation as a "copyist," writing, rather than painting, portraits of high-end clients. Gwyn pursues his quest for realism from a run-down studio, helped by a carefully arranged array of lightbulbs, a 72-hour sound loop, and his devoted assistant Rebecca, to whom the story shifts after her employer vanishes amid a scandal. Years later, Rebecca comes to suspect that Gwyn the copyist might have been up to something even stranger than written portraiture. The nature of Gwyn's secret lies in the book's novel-within-a-novel, "Three Times At Dawn," about the mysterious and seductive Malcolm Webster, whose life's central events all transpire in hotel lobbies. Taken as one novel, the two sections make for a charming call-and-response meditation on how art connects the few brave enough to forget themselves.
