Alice Munro

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage / Μ’ αγαπάει δεν μ’ αγαπάει

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In these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as Alice Munro’s characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn’t. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven’t been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, it’s as if they have never been – until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways.
There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope, there are second chances – here are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by the throat, who have moved on and can dare to conjure up the hidden memories, daring to go beyond what is remembered.

Μια φοιτήτρια ανακαλύπτει κατά την επίσκεψή της σε μια θεία της κάποιο μυστικό του παρελθόντος. Μια γυναίκα αναπολεί τη σύντομη ερωτική της συνάντηση με έναν άγνωστο και πώς αυτή η ανάμνηση την έχει στηρίξει σε όλη της τη ζωή. Η μοίρα μιας γεροντοκόρης οικονόμου αλλάζει απροσδόκητα από μια φάρσα. Η συγγραφέας μας μεταφέρει σ’ έναν κόσμο όπου ένα απροσδόκητο γεγονός ή μια ξανακερδισμένη ανάμνηση μπορεί να φωτίσει την πορεία μιας ολόκληρης ζωής.
“Τα διηγήματά της μπορούν να συγκριθούν μόνο με του Τολστόι και του Τσέχοφ”. (Τζον Απντάικ)
“Μία από τις σημαντικότερες σύγχρονες συγγραφείς”.
(Newsweek)
“Ένα βιβλίο γεμάτο εκπλήξεις, ποτισμένο με τη γνώση ότι η αγάπη, όπως και όλα τα ελιξίρια άλλωστε, είναι τόσο φωτιά όσο και νερό”.
(Wall Street Journal)

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Caribbean & Canada Region

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