Riflessi in un occhio d'oro

by Carson McCullers, Irene Brin (Translator)

Overview

Una guarnigione militare in tempo di pace, situata in un punto imprecisato dell'assolata e deserta Georgia dove l'anima imputridisce di malinconia. Finché un omicidio sconvolge l'intera esistenza della base e porta alla luce un'intricata rete di morbose attrazioni, tradimenti, inconfessabili desideri che invischia fatalmente tutti i personaggi. Salutato da un grande successo di pubblico, accusato di scandalo e perversione, questo romanzo è un viaggio nelle profondità del desiderio e dell'odio umani, che approda a una visione dell'esistenza tanto terribile quanto reale. Da questo romanzo, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1941, è stato tratto il leggendario film di John Huston, con Elizabeth Taylor e un indimenticabile Marlon Brando nella parte del tormentato capitano gay Weldon Penderton. *** «La McCullers e forse Faulkner sono gli unici scrittori, dalla morte di D. H. Lawrence, con una sensibilità poetica originale. Preferisco la McCullers a Faulkner perché scrive in modo piú limpido; la preferisco a Lawrence perché non ha nessun messaggio». Graham Greene

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788858414361
Publisher:	EINAUDI
Publication date:	06/17/2014
Sold by:	GIULIO EINAUDI EDITORE - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	976 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Carson McCullers, novelist, short story writer, and playwright, was born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, the daughter of Lamar Smith, a jewelry storeowner, and Vera Marguerite Waters. Best known for her novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Ballad of the Sad Café, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding, McCullers also won awards for her adaptation of The Member of the Wedding for the Broadway stage. After completing high school, Carson studied for two years in New York before marrying James Reeves McCullers and moving to New York permanently upon the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in 1940 when McCullers was only 23. Heralded as a wunderkind by critics, McCullers' most significant was published between 1943 and 1950. Plagued by a series of strokes attributed to a mis-diagnosed and untreated case of childhood rheumatic fever, McCullers died at age fifty in 1967. With a collection of work including five novels, two plays, twenty short stories, over two dozen nonfiction pieces, a book of children's verses, a small number of poems, and an unfinished autobiography, McCullers is considered among the most significant American writers of the twentieth-century.

Author biography courtesy of The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians at Columbus State University, Columbus, GA.

Date of Birth:

February 19, 1917

Date of Death:

November 29, 1967

Place of Birth:

Columbus, Georgia

Place of Death:

Nyack, New York

Education:

Columbia University and New York University, 1935