And 'one of the authors that Time magazine had reported in the three most important American writers of the new generation, but when you see him, calmly answered Joshua Ferris "I do not care at all ." Born in Illinois nearly 36 years ago, Ferris has already achieved worldwide success with debut novel Then We Came the end, and now is Festivaletteratura Mantova present the new job, I do not know your name , both published by Blacks Pozza. This is the story of a man, Tim, afflicted by a mysterious illness which leads him to leave his life happy and successful start to walk, without stopping and without a precise destination, not until exhaustion takes over.
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A fascinating and complex novel, full of style and pages (350 in the Italian edition), which is the basic idea of \u200b\u200bthe writer. "The novel - Ferris explained to Kilgore - is the place where it meets the complexity . You can not reach it with a post on Twitter, but you can do with a novel." Someone, simplistically, read the flight of the protagonist as an escape from happiness, but Ferris rejects this interpretation ( It 's very easy to make a' tweet 'about this idea "):" There is nothing more than that Tim wants to stay at home. But he can not do it, it can not. " And as in a mirror in which the feelings are multiplied to infinity, the novel confuses and impresses the reader with the "oblique beauty" that Ferris shows how the characteristics of what he calls a "perfect novel".
An example of a perfect book, according to Joshua Ferris, is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov: "In a novel there must be a message - he said - just different kinds of pleasures . The novel contains all that perfect, 'Lolita' evokes mystery and then leads to the possible truth. It has the magic of a grand final, with a feeling of great clarity, without a proper conclusion. "A philosophical background, Ferris has the merit of putting the reader in the face of moral dilemmas , in the case of no I know your name, for example, that of keeping a marriage in difficult conditions, or that of the comparison with an illness - because it is undoubtedly that of Tim - but it is not identified in any way, and remains a disturbing noise fund under the narration and in the lives of the characters of Joshua Ferris.
"Marriage - explains the writer - is a report difficult, the institute is almost always in crisis, it's really complicated. I was very concerned as the theme for the novel, because it contains all the more complicated one: being together of two people, however, remain forever separate. "As for the walk irrepressible Tim, who obviously can not involve Jane his wife and teenage daughter Becka, Ferris explained that "is obviously a metaphor of the disease, but it is not then that really forces the novel to confront the need to express realistically the difficulties of the family and at the same time also dealing a syndrome that is just fantastic. "Along the border you test the strength of the book.
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critic Lev Grossman, always on time, praised Ferris but at the same time expressed the hope that the next novel - in which the writer has confirmed that he is already working - put Register with the most comic book of the first and the most tragic of the second. " With a little 'luck - Ferris said, smiling - I'll make it."
