Take A Coin In Nine Hands Authored By Marguerite Yourcenar File Pamphlet

ilintili farklı öykülerin ortak paydası karakter tahlilleri ve insanın kader veya tesadüf denilebilecek bağlantıları, Roma ve Sicilya olayların geçtiği yerler, dönemlar İtalyada Mussolininin yükseldiği dönemler, Anlatıcısı bir dil ustası M, Yourcenar. Keyifli bir okuma, öyküler değil bir kısa roman olarak okuyun bence, It tastes like watching Fellini, During the space of a day in Rome in, a tenlira coin passes through the hands of nine peopleincluding an aging artist, a prostitute, and a wouldbe assassin of Mussolini.
The coin becomes the symbol of contact between human beings, each lost in private passions and nearly impenetrable solitude,

"A Coin in Nine Hands has, . . passages that move close to poetry and a story that belongs in both literature and history, "Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times Book

"What lingers at the end of A Coin in Nine Hands is the shadowiness and puppetlike vagueness of the Dictator, and the compelling specificity of the socalled 'common people' revolving all around him.
"Anne Tyler, The New Republic

"Within a few pages we have met half the major characters in this haunting, brilliantly constructed novel, The studied perfection, the structural intricacy and brevity remind one of Camus, Yet by comparison, Yourcenar's prose is lavish, emotional and imagistic, "Cynthia King, Houston Post

"Transcends its specific time and place to become a portrait of vividly delineated characters caught in the vise of a tragically familiar political situation.
"Publisher's Weekly

Best known as the author of Memoirs of Hadrian and The Abyss, Marguerite Yourcenarachieved countless literary honors and was the first woman ever elected to the Académie Française.
marguerite yourcenar might just be too educated, serious, and academic to tell the kind of story i want to read, another way of phrasing that is that i might be too dumb, young, and frivolous to handle her books, Rome, year XI of fascism, Rolling from hand to hand, a ten lire coin the denarius of the title is the witness that a dozen protagonists pass in their race for dreams, Whether they are husbands, lovers, parents, accomplices or clients, this handful of Italians offer themselves a cheap fantasy or an emergency exit: pleasure, a lie, a wish, a good conscience even death.
A farthing of hope in an eternal city under the influence, With his quasiimperial power, Mussolini extends over the country the shadow of his prognathic and predatory profile,
Yourcenar, curiously brutal and carnal, probes hearts, delves into stories, penetrates the folds of each conscience with mastery, Whether she awakens an old painter, a stingy florist, a selfrighteous actress, a cancerous prostitute or a broken old maid, the writer does so with delicate ferocity, The slices of life that she lends them are sketches of novels whose pages we would have liked to leaf through,
His tenderness, the author bestows on a quartet of supporters, Carlo Stevo, writer, martyred for freedom whose ghost haunts those who loved him, Massimo the traitor filled with remorse, Alessandro, fascist by opportunism and above all Marcella, weary terrorist whose planned attack resonates like suicide.
Their journey of blood and tears splashes the golden lanes of Rome, Yourcenar escribe la literatura que he buscado toda mi vida, Dice cosas que yo nunca podré decir, Si me preguntan por mis escritores favoritos, ambas se llaman Marguerite y son francesas, Patience, and four years later the book comes to me by accident, playing itself out, There is a remarkable concept here: the idea of a small token being both the driving element and main character of the work, passively travelling through the mundane, heroic choices of those who retrieve bear abandon it creating the history not story that is told.
As always, Yourcenar imagines worlds within a real world, brings together the necessary narrative to frame each little episode, is generous in giving each player the tragedy they deserve, Yet singularly and possibly for the first time reading her, the execution of a promising concept fails to fully deliver,

Despite the superior motivation in writing this piece one that must have lived long in her to the point of rewriting it

Denier du rêve does not feel like Yourcenar at her best, the beauty of her writing dissolving into trivial metaphor and relatively limited emotional reach becoming almost mechanical in effort.
There is none of MdHs transcendence here, or the nostalgic doom of LOaN but the short story temperament of the author's small works that, in context, go beyond what Denier puts forth.
Ambitious as its premise is, there is a significant gap between the thought and its execution the idealised scope and its practical application, More could have been done with such a powerful starting point, More should have been done by such a powerful writer,

A,. This was a short read but an interesting story, I am wary of translations but this one seems to be well done many of the passages are lyrical, The passing of the coin is not always obvious as I got caught up in the story, an attempted assassination of Mussolini, and the ripple effect that has on people both connected and unconnected with the assassin.
Set in Rome in, it offers an interesting cross section of Roman life in time past, This is a book that I had to seek out as I needed a "Y" author for a Goodreads challenge, I'm glad I did and I will definitely read her seemingly better known Memoirs of Hadrian,.stars. ” Lamore non si compra: le donne che si vendono non fanno altro che affittarsi agli uomini, ma si compra un sogno, merce impalpabile che si spaccia sotto molte forme.
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Trovo splendido che Marguerite Yourcenar considerasse la letteratura un cantiere sempre aperto, Il fatto che lavorasse a distanza di anni a manoscritti che allepoca avrebbero potuto considerarsi conclusi, dà lidea di una profonda capacità autocritica ed apertura mentale,

Questa edizione di “Moneta del sogno” come spiegava lautrice in postfazione è frutto di un intreccio tra una prima redazione deled unintegrazione scritta tra il,



Una moneta, simile a questa diventa il filo rosso di questa storia,

Nel libro intervista,sitelinkAd occhi aperti, Conversazioni con Matthieu Galey, la Yourcenair dichiarò:

Tanti incontri della nostra vita, tanti rapporti umani sono basati semplicemente sul fatto che si dà una moneta o una banconota a qualcuno in cambio di un francobollo o di un giornale della sera, senza sapere niente di quella persona.


Si tratta di un momento, un contatto che, spesso manca di consapevolezza, non è neppure accompagnato da uno sguardo ma compiuto come gesto meccanico,

Tutto si svolge nellarco di una giornata romana del XI anno del Regime Fascista,
E il giorno della commemorazione della marcia su Roma ma non tutti personaggi che entrano in scena sono consci di vivere sotto una dittatura,
Così Paolo Farina, il primo anello a formare questa catena, è in procinto di vivere lennesima giornata di rimpianto dopo labbandono della moglie,
Lapice del racconto ha come protagonista Marcella, ex moglie di un noto medico legato al fascismo, che lei ha lasciato per unirsi a gruppi sovversivi,

La moneta è un mezzo materiale attraverso cui entrano in contatto le reciproche solitudini,
Sono donne e uomini che vivono limpossibilità di comunicare e comprendersi e allora questa moneta rappresenta il momento fugace in cui lumanità può realizzare un sogno:
quello di capirsi, di comprendersi ed essere solidali.


Quattro stelle soprattutto all'idea di fondo e alla meravigliosa penna della Yourcenar anche se in alcuni passaggi mi sono inceppata ed ho fatto un po' fatica,


"Siamo tutti dei brandelli di stoffa lacerata, stracci stinti, un misto di compromessi Il discepolo prediletto non è quello che nei quadri dorme sulla spalla del Maestro, ma quello che si è impiccato con in tasca trenta monete dargento" I liked the central motif of the ten lire note passing hands between characters who come into contact with one another.
This is neither a collection of short stories too many tieins with preceding episodes for that nor a well structured novel in the classical sense,

The central episode that gets most attention is that to do with the assassination of the dictator and yet all of the stories are about life under Fascism in one way or another.


The opening words of "A Coin in Nine Hands" are "feeling tired, " Exhaustion, frustration, disillusionment, hopelessness, failure a kind of unstoppable historical slide into chaos is the current pulling the lives of the characters through the narratives,

Future prospects, happiness and human feeling are stripped away under Fascism and Yourcenar's shows this from a range of perspectives,

The first and best episode relates the story of Lina Chari, a prostitute, dying of breast cancer, After the bad news she catches sight of her own reflection in a shop window:

"She did not recognise her face, What she saw was not the face of Lina Chiari who already belonged to the past but the future face of a Lina sadly stripped of everything, "

All Lina can do is seek protection from the abyss she is sliding into by purchasing a lipstick, Only "a thin layer of makeup" stands between her and oblivion,

In the central episode about the attempt on the life of the Dictator, struggle is depicted as futile, There are attempts to discourage the wouldbe assassin's attempt, Yourcenar, however, suggests that support for fascism is too strong to counter, that human values have been so degraded, so perverted and compromised that there is no future to create.
There is no reversing the path the people themselves have chosen to take,

"Look at the people in the street, later, when you go there, and ask yourself if they're the ones to build the future on, There is no future there is only a man you want to kill, who dead, will rise again like a target in a shooting gallery, a man who thinks he can shape the future by banging his fists.
Do you hear the voices answering him from the four corners of Europe, the voices howling hatred"

There is much more that could be said about "A Coin in Nine Hands.
" I'll leave that to others,

This is a gloomy and prophetic piece of fiction written in thes, A master study of political evil and it's dehumanising ripple effects through society at the time, .