Pikkukuvaa napsauttamalla pääset Google Booksiin.
Ladataan... Anna (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2015; vuoden 2015 painos)Tekijä: Niccolò Ammaniti
TeostiedotAnna (tekijä: Niccolò Ammaniti) (2015) LainassaTornato dal padrone 2016-02-28
Italian Literature (501) Ladataan...
Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. The post-apocalyptic novel—always a compelling and popular subgenre—has gained traction in recent years as the movie industry cashes in with depictions of dystopian realms where everything has gone wrong. Niccolò Ammaniti’s 2015 novel Anna (published in English translation in 2017) presents a disturbingly prescient story of a sister and brother navigating the perils of a world ravaged by a virus that has killed everyone over age fourteen, and which will claim their lives too once they pass through puberty and experience hormonal changes that render them vulnerable to the scourge. As the novel begins, it’s been four years since the Red Virus emerged. Widespread looting and destructive wildfires have scorched urban and rural landscapes. Electricity and running water are distant memories. All remnants of civil society have crumbled. On the island of Sicily, Anna Salemi, 13, and her younger brother Astor are living on their own in the family home on Mulberry Farm. Having exhausted the food left behind by their parents, they are surviving on the spoils of Anna’s forays into nearby dwellings and deserted shops, where she scavenges whatever is available, mostly tinned milk and vegetables, and packaged sweets. But their relatively placid way of life is rudely and violently interrupted when, while Anna is out foraging, a band of marauding children invades the homestead, vandalizes the place and abducts Astor. Anna’s search for her brother forces her to abandon her comfort zone and venture into the untamed countryside, where chaos reigns and anything can happen. Along the way she picks up a couple of allies: a boy named Pietro—slightly older than Anna, Pietro believes a specific style of Adidas sneakers will make him immune to the virus—and a huge shaggy sheepdog she names Fluffy. After a grotesquely apocalyptic scene in which she rescues Astor from a bizarre cult that has enslaved him, the four venture north and find refuge in the port of Cefalú before making their way east to Messina, where Anna has decided they must cross the Strait to the mainland, chasing rumours of a cure. Along with the highly visual and detailed prose, what distinguishes Ammaniti’s novel is the persuasively rendered psychology of his cast of juvenile characters. Astor acts like a boy on vacation—he’s young enough to have little memory of life before the virus, so for him all of this is “normal.” Anna and Pietro, in full knowledge of the dangers they face and the certainty they will die in agony in their mid-teens, find time for frivolity. In Anna’s wrecked world cruelty abounds, life is cheap, and death’s leavings are part of the scenery. The novel may be bleak and violent, but it offers hope every time we see how tenaciously Anna clings to her meagre existence and truncated future. In Anna, Niccolò Ammaniti offers an engaging analysis of human behaviour in a time of anarchy. Not for the faint of heart. Un'altro libro quasi-profetico, visto che è pure ambientato nel 2020 (ironia della sorte la produzione della serie TV è stata bloccata proprio dalla pandemia vera). Più che uno romanzo di fantascienza/distopico vero e proprio, è inteso come una metafora della crescita/romanzo di formazione, e alla fine mi è sembrato che la cosa fosse un po' la scusa per tirarsene fuori facile Alcune descrizioni truculente hanno un po' urtato la mia sensibilità (starò diventando delicata con l'età 3.5 * Niccolò Ammaniti is one of those writers who enjoy success with the reading public and general (if not unanimous) critical acclaim. One of the reasons for this must surely be that he brings a literary sensibility to popular genres, be it novels with a Mafia/"low-life" theme ( such as [b:Io non ho paura|151633|Io non ho paura|Niccolò Ammaniti|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1345927249l/151633._SY75_.jpg|1185887] and the Strega-winner [b:Come Dio comanda|1304612|Come Dio comanda|Niccolò Ammaniti|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1295369878l/1304612._SY75_.jpg|6527293]) or bittersweet coming-of-age stories such as [b:Io e te|9666790|Io e te|Niccolò Ammaniti|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1295688303l/9666790._SY75_.jpg|14549397]. Ammaniti's engagement with pop culture and his ability to read and reflect the "signs of the times" is confirmed by the fact that his books and stories have been made into movies by directors such as Salvatores and Bertolucci, and the title of [b:Ti prendo e ti porto via|1304611|Ti prendo e ti porto via|Niccolò Ammaniti|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1312482672l/1304611._SX50_.jpg|421377] was appropriated by cult Italian rocker Vasco Rossi for his hit single of the same name (belted out in Blasco's trademark half-spoken/shouted style). In Anna, Ammaniti turns his sights onto the YA market and the dystopian/post-apocalyptic genre which seems to take up quite a chunk of new adult readership. He imagines a Sicily ravaged by a mysterious virus which wipes out adults, leaving only children as survivors. Until they reach puberty, because then the symptoms of the illness appear and they die as well. Further disasters (including uncontrolled fires and explosions) wreak havoc and break down all electronic means of communication. Unsure of the situation in the rest of the world (where, allegedly, a cure might have been found), and with adulthood fast approaching, the protagonist Anna sets out on a journey seeking survival for her and her younger brother Astor. If I have a reservation about Ammaniti's latest novel, it is that it does not bring anything particularly new to the genre. We've come across "apocalypse by virus" before, not least in Shelley's proto-science-fiction novel [b:The Last Man|966835|The Last Man|Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1392984325l/966835._SY75_.jpg|835097]. There are also obvious parallels with [b:The Road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1600241424l/6288._SY75_.jpg|3355573] whilst the nature of the virus, dubbed "La Rossa", could be a tribute to Poe's Masque of the Red Death. As for children returning to a primitive, violent, cruel state, one could hardly better [b:Lord of the Flies|7624|Lord of the Flies|William Golding|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327869409l/7624._SY75_.jpg|2766512]. That said, nothing by Ammaniti should be written off. And Anna is, as most of his novels, engaging and, quite often, page-turning. The protagonist is an endearing character - strong and yet sensitive - bravely coming to terms with an oncoming adolescence which, for her, will mean almost certain death. This might not be a groundbreaking novel then, but certainly a well-crafted and gripping one, and several notches above the average YA fare. I generally prefer to read Italian novels in the original, but I really enjoyed the idiomatic, fluent translation by Jonathan Hunt for Canongate Books. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Summer has ended, but the heat will not let up. Ash has covered everything. Weeds and wheat grow around the cars abandoned in the road.Anna and Astor live in the house behind the fence, surviving in a world stripped of adults. The rooms are piled high with rubbish. Their mother's skeleton lies perfect on the bed.And every few days, Anna must head out beyond the fence for provisions and medicine. Each time she goes, she may never come back.A huge bestseller in Italy, Anna is a story about the survival of the human spirit after the worst has happened. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
Current Discussions-Suosituimmat kansikuvat
Google Books — Ladataan... LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)853.92Literature Italian Italian fiction 1900- 21st CenturyKongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:
Oletko sinä tämä henkilö? |
Niccolò Ammaniti is one of those writers who enjoy success with the reading public and general (if not unanimous) critical acclaim. One of the reasons for this must surely be that he brings a literary sensibility to popular genres, be it novels with a Mafia/"low-life" theme ( such as [b:Io non ho paura|151633|Io non ho paura|Niccolò Ammaniti|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1345927249l/151633._SY75_.jpg|1185887] and the Strega-winner [b:Come Dio comanda|1304612|Come Dio comanda|Niccolò Ammaniti|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1295369878l/1304612._SY75_.jpg|6527293]) or bittersweet coming-of-age stories such as [b:Io e te|9666790|Io e te|Niccolò Ammaniti|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1295688303l/9666790._SY75_.jpg|14549397]. Ammaniti's engagement with pop culture and his ability to read and reflect the "signs of the times" is confirmed by the fact that his books and stories have been made into movies by directors such as Salvatores and Bertolucci, and the title of [b:Ti prendo e ti porto via|1304611|Ti prendo e ti porto via|Niccolò Ammaniti|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1312482672l/1304611._SX50_.jpg|421377] was appropriated by cult Italian rocker Vasco Rossi for his hit single of the same name (belted out in Blasco's trademark half-spoken/shouted style).
In Anna, Ammaniti turns his sights onto the YA market and the dystopian/post-apocalyptic genre which seems to take up quite a chunk of new adult readership. He imagines a Sicily ravaged by a mysterious virus which wipes out adults, leaving only children as survivors. Until they reach puberty, because then the symptoms of the illness appear and they die as well. Further disasters (including uncontrolled fires and explosions) wreak havoc and break down all electronic means of communication. Unsure of the situation in the rest of the world (where, allegedly, a cure might have been found), and with adulthood fast approaching, the protagonist Anna sets out on a journey seeking survival for her and her younger brother Astor.
If I have a reservation about Ammaniti's latest novel, it is that it does not bring anything particularly new to the genre. We've come across "apocalypse by virus" before, not least in Shelley's proto-science-fiction novel [b:The Last Man|966835|The Last Man|Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1392984325l/966835._SY75_.jpg|835097]. There are also obvious parallels with [b:The Road|6288|The Road|Cormac McCarthy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1600241424l/6288._SY75_.jpg|3355573] whilst the nature of the virus, dubbed "La Rossa", could be a tribute to Poe's Masque of the Red Death. As for children returning to a primitive, violent, cruel state, one could hardly better [b:Lord of the Flies|7624|Lord of the Flies|William Golding|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327869409l/7624._SY75_.jpg|2766512].
That said, nothing by Ammaniti should be written off. And Anna is, as most of his novels, engaging and, quite often, page-turning. The protagonist is an endearing character - strong and yet sensitive - bravely coming to terms with an oncoming adolescence which, for her, will mean almost certain death. This might not be a groundbreaking novel then, but certainly a well-crafted and gripping one, and several notches above the average YA fare.
I generally prefer to read Italian novels in the original, but I really enjoyed the idiomatic, fluent translation by Jonathan Hunt for Canongate Books. ( )