Вручение 2008 г.

Страна: Италия Место проведения: город Гринцане-Кавур, регион Пьемонт, провинция Кунео Дата проведения: 2008 г.

Итальянская художественная литература

Лауреат
Микеле Мари 0.0
La memoria di Felice si sta sbriciolando: per tutta la vita si è occupato della grande casa di campagna dove Michelino trascorre le sue vacanze, dell'orto, del verderame da spargere sull'uva, dei conigli da ingrassare, poi uccidere e scuoiare. Ma adesso qualcosa sembra non funzionare più. I suoi ricordi riaffiorano sfalsati e contraddittori, componendo una geografia mentale sempre più inaffidabile. Felice all'improvviso si mette a raccontare una balzana storia di esuli russi, di francesi che parlano sottoterra, di scheletri in divisa nazista: e le lumache che appestano l'orto si trasformano in nemici invincibili, sentinelle di un mondo ctonio e minaccioso. Quale sfida migliore, per un ragazzino che si annoia, di un «viaggio al centro della testa» di quest'orco bonario che da sempre accende la sua immaginazione? Così Michelino si ritrova, come un piccolo Sancho Panza, scudiero nella lotta di Felice contro il mulinare impazzito della sua memoria, consigliere e compagno nella battaglia disperata che l'uomo sta combattendo dentro di sé. Giocando con la tradizione del romanzo d'avventura - e innestando nell'immaginario di Stevenson le ossessioni di Edgar Allan Poe - Michele Mari conduce il lettore lungo un percorso imprevedibile alla scoperta dei propri demoni. Con una passione affabulatoria mai così divertita e travolgente, illumina ancora una volta la natura «sanguinosa» dei ricordi d'infanzia. E riesce così a sfiorare un territorio altro, una zona d'ombra dove ciascuno di noi ha un doppio che lo attende, e poco importa se non sappiamo dargli un nome, «perché non ci dobbiamo preoccupare della storia delle cose e delle parole, dobbiamo usarle solo per il nostro comodo».

Зарубежная проза

Лауреат
Bernardo Atxaga 0.0
As he dies leaving his two boys orphaned, Paulo's father lays on him the duty to look after his retarded but overgrown younger brother, for otherwise Daniel will be put away in an institution. But Daniel never listens to his brother, who is unable to exert any authority over him. Instead Daniel, age twenty and still in the throes of puberty, goes off in an inept, fumbling pursuit of the village girls as they ride past on their bicycles on the way to sewing lessons or cake-baking classes.Among these girls are pretty Teresa and her plain friend, Carmen, a girl disfigured by a birthmark on one cheek. Both of them are sweet on Paulo, the quiet, irresolute, but handsome lad who works in the family sawmill, while Teresa is the reluctant, indeed disgusted, object of Daniel's dreams. Each girl schemes to cut the other out and win favor with Paulo. All ends in tears. And the narrators of this story, who take turns relating the tale, are creatures of the wild, driven by their inner voices -- a bird, squirrels, a black snake .
Людмила Улицкая 4.2
Новый роман Людмилы Улицкой "Искренне ваш Шурик", подтвердив ее талант романиста, показал и новизну романной формы, которой никто не ожидал от "генератора сентиментального". Улицкая адаптирует классическую романную форму к современным привычкам "легкого потребления", переводит ее на язык сегодняшней культуры.
Иными словами, если ее "женский роман" и "продвинут", то в сторону жанровой архаики. Люди с тонкими чувствами обречены на вымирание, автор их жалеет, но "антисентиментальной" насмешки... практически не скрывает.
Сентиментальное редуцируется к биологическому, к волнению гормонов, а не души, и чем сильнее бурлят гормоны, тем спокойнее душа. Улицкая умышленно издевается над собственным ранним сентиментализмом, имеющим корни в XIX веке, а внутри романа последовательно опровергает те чувства, которые сама же и генерирует у читателей, и в этой эмоциональной динамике новизна ее отношения и к персонажам, и к читателям.
Ingo Schulze 4.0
East Germany, January 1990. Enrico Türmer, man of the theater, secret novelist, turns his back on art and signs on to work at a newly started newspaper. Freed from the compulsion to describe the world, he plunges into everyday life. Under the guidance of his Mephisto, the ever-present Clemens von Barrista, the former aesthete suddenly develops worldly ambitions even he didn’t know he had.

This upheaval in our hero’s life, mirrored in the vaster upheaval gripping Germany itself after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the birth pangs of a reunified nation, is captured in the letters Enrico writes to the three people he loves most: his sister, Vera; his childhood friend Johann; and Nicoletta, the unattainable woman of his dreams. As he discovers capitalism and reports on his adventures as a businessman, he peels away the layers of his previous existence, in the process creating the thing he has dreamed of for so long—the novel of his own life, in whose facets contemporary history is captured. Thus Enrico comes to embody all the questionable aspects not only of life in the old Germany, but of life in the Germany just taking form.

Once again Ingo Schulze proves himself a master storyteller, with an inimitable power to reconjure the complete insanity of this wildest time in postwar German history. As its comic chronicler, he unfurls a panorama of a world in transformation—and the birth of a new era

Произведение молодого автора

Леонора Миано
Лауреат
Леонора Миано / Léonora Miano
3 книги
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