Firmin. Aventurile unei vieti subterane

by Sam Savage

Overview

Firmin este un soricel nascut intr-un cartier sarac din Bostonul anilor ’60, la subsolul unei librarii. Acolo, tot infulecand una dupa alta pagini din Veghea lui Finnegan, cu care mama lui a captusit culcusul numeroasei sale familii, invata sa citeasca, devine un vagabond filosof ce se lupta cu marile intrebari ale existentei. Talentele sale exceptionale il instraineaza insa de semeni. Un suflet tandru, incearca din rasputeri sa comunice cu oamenii, dupa a caror companie tanjeste, dar isi da seama ca ii e sortit sa duca o viata singuratica, desi plina de fantezie. Pana la urma, tot incercand sa supravietuiasca in haosul demolarilor si modernizarii cartierului, dupa un sir de peripetii si cu un dram de noroc, izbuteste sa cunoasca un scriitor excentric, de a carui afectiune ajunge sa se bucure, ca si de frumusetea femeilor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789734651382
Publisher:	Editura Polirom
Publication date:	01/06/2014
Series:	Top 10+
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB
Language:	Romanian

About the Author

Sam Savage grew up in a small town in South Carolina in the '40s and '50s. Then he went north, first to Boston and New York, and later to France and Germany. He studied at the University of Heidelberg and at Yale, eventually acquiring a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale. He taught there, briefly and unhappily. It was a period when many had become convinced that there are no genuine philosophic problems, only genuine linguistic puzzles. This discovery did not leave any "career options" for Savage, since the only puzzle that interested him at that time was himself. In 1980 he went back south, to McClellanville, South Carolina (pop. 400), where he spent the next twenty-three years. He worked as a carpenter, a commercial fisherman, and a letterpress printer. He lived, however, mainly on a diminishing pile of inherited money and the labors of his wife, while he attempted to write, pretended to write, and often really did write. Most of the things he wrote have not survived. In 2003, he moved north again, this time to Madison, Wisconsin, where he now lives.

Savage has proved to be the most persistant and annoying of the Old Rat's fictions.

Biography courtesy of the author's official web site.

Hometown:

Madison, Wisconsin

Date of Birth:

November 9, 1940

Place of Birth:

Camden, South Carolina

Education:

B.A. in Philosophy, Yale, 1968; University of Heidelberg (2 years), Ph.D. in Philosophy, Yale, 1979

Website:

http://www.theoldrat.com