A "novel of lost memories" that falls on the literary scene with the force of a breath of fresh air, which spariglia cards and brings new life to the novel contemporary. "Déjà vu " the 39 year old British artist Tom McCarthy, published in Italy for the types of Isbn is the story of an obsession, but also a kind of manual for look at the reality, from the point of view which refers to Don Quixote and Hamlet, but also to Francis Ponge and the legendary Thomas Pynchon. Everything revolves around a protagonist, "an anti-hero" in the definition of that McCarthy, who, struck by a mysterious object fell from the sky , loses his memory. Built a huge compensation, the nameless man begins to experience the deja vu and, using the millions of pounds of which we have, stages of reconstructions of his few memories complex, involving the following set and everything is recreated in every detail. The search for naturalness, the "fluidity" of the gestures, the lead protagonist and his assistant, the Indian Naz professional facilitator, to go ever further, in an escalation of tension and drama which will culminate on board of a hijacked plane.
"I finished writing the novel - at Kilgore McCarthy said in a meeting in Milan - in July 2001 and when I saw what happened on September 11, I almost thought I was stolen the final." Although dates back almost seven years ago, "Déjà vu" struggled to find a publisher and, after an initial limited edition of 2004, was released in the United States in 2006, the news of June 1, also won the 2007 Believer Book Award. "I am very happy for this award - said the writer -, my book is not meant to win awards including the Pulitzer, is marginal compared to the mainstream." In reality, however, the themes touched by McCarthy are profound and crucial for our time and suggest to the work of Don DeLillo, a novelist who has investigated the information that flows through our lives. "I was certainly influenced by DeLillo - said McCarthy - but he is more conceptual, I wanted that my book was more material, not only ideas but also concrete things. More profound influence - he added the British writer - I feel like Francis Ponge for the observation of objects, as he describes them. But the cinema of Tarkovsky, which takes six minutes to a wall. "
The story told in" Deju vu "is also a chronicle of failure of the attempt to create perfect copies of life." world - explained McCarthy - is always one step ahead. This is a novel anti-idealist, anti-Hegelian . In philosophical terms, there is a great struggle between Bataille and Hegel and Bataille is winner. That is the unpredictability situations, the accounts that do not return, that something more disorienting and creates the heady feeling that captures the anti-hero in the final book.
McCarthy's novel focuses so sul'arte to see, which is to set up almost like a performance of everyday life. "This - the writer said - is the essence of poetry and also
of visual art." A practice to offer a deeper insight into the reality, that makes art a kind of "photographic negative " of reality, which you can duplicate - re-interpret to use the language of "Déjà vu" - thousands of times. "Art survives the reality - McCarthy said -, art is what remains, the residue . "And his novel is a residue of uncommon size, intended to trace. When asked if art can save our lives, But the answer is unequivocal: "No, thank God, no, no, no.
Kilgore But one thing is certain:" Déjà vu "is an important novel, whose magnitude may be able to fully understand only between few years, when remember him as a classic of our times confused.
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