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Everyman by Philip Roth -

Everyman

by Philip Roth

"Old age is not a battle, old age is a massacre" is the statement that Roth is on pg. 106 of Eveyman confirming a thought that haunts him for years.

This latest book by its cover, black, presented as a work of art in America and in Italy, I was just disappointed.

Roth takes his classic themes: the competition of the protagonist with the perfect image of a brother (in the Swedish Ministry American), the marital breakdown, old = disease = death, the obsession with sex, the memory of lost love games, and finally, the total refusal to accept a different condition of life, when life becomes too because the body no longer responds to the impulses of youth.

Having the time to analyze his previous (great), novels, you find the same concepts, and probably even the same phrases. However, the same obsession that Roth wants to make universal - not giving a name to his hero - but that is the human obsession with Roth, and not, Fortunately, all the older men.

seems to Roth, "life" is synonymous with sex, if this fails, we can no longer speak of "life."

This book tells, in my opinion, that Roth has little to say. Not ago to terms with death, as he himself said recently in an interview, but once again the reader, perhaps slyly, things already well known and, in my opinion, even those in a more convincing and original.

Both the trilogy about America I had won, so the dying animal, I was involved in some meditations you could do just about old age, the Everyman me irritated causing a total rejection of the author.

Milan, February 12, 2007

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Istanbul

Orhan Pamuk

Sadness is the word most used by Pamuk to narrate his story of love with Istanbul.

Why a love story between a child is born into a wealthy family, a beautiful mother, whom he (clearly) loves, and a languid city , decadent, sad, gray, dirty, breathless, to the exasperation of confrontation with the West.

Sadness " is a passion of the mind that the city has assimilated with pride. "

Istanbul is the background of life and the lives of Pamuk Pamuk is the background to the story of the city. The two lives intersect full of sadness and melancholy of Istanbul, and the failure of his ambition to the big city on the border between East and West and Orhan, a childhood and adolescence in constant tension between parents.

A witness many photographs: views of a city into a charming abandon, a city in black and white, calls it the writer, and images of a middle class family, with all the cliches of the affluent middle class.

And then the excitement of the 800 French writers to Istanbul, Pamuk's love for literature and writers Western Turks, his masters, the promoters of an Encyclopedia of Istanbul.

After reading this book full of charm and full of love, hit me Pamuk's flight from Istanbul to the death threats received. I must confess that I never would have expected it. Perhaps, after so many statements, I would have imagined the barricades until the last breath.

But the writers are men with all their fears. And when you start to be famous to be very difficult to give up the celebrity and all that this condition carries.

February 12, 2007

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