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"Le vergini suicide" è il primo romanzo di Jeffrey Eugenides, l'autore di uno dei miei romanzi preferiti, "Middlesex".
E' ambientato negli anni '70 in U.S.A., in un quartiere di periferia piuttosto ordinario. La storia ruota attorno alle sorelle Lisbon, cinque liceali che, a causa del loro tragico destino, finiscono per diventare l'incarnazione del sogno proibito e dell'innocenza della gioventù per il gruppo di loro spasimanti che fa da narratore collettivo del romanzo.
Anche se ho preferito "Middlesex" (parere che però non è condiviso da tutti), mi è piaciuto molto. Più che andare sul deprimente o sul patetico come ci si potrebbe aspettare, dato il tema del suicidio, il romanzo segue il doppio binario della fascinazione e di un interesse quasi morboso. Sebbene si sappia dall'inizio come si concluderà la vicenda, non si riesce a smettere di leggere. Restano particolarmente impressi dei particolari apparentemente privi di importanza che sembrano acquisire valenza simbolica.
Dal questo libro nel 1999 Sofia Coppola ha tratto un film con Kirsten Dunst, "Il giardino delle vergini suicide", che ho trovato ben fatto e molto fedele al libro.
"The Virgin Suicides" is the first novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, the author of one of my favorite novels, "Middlesex".
It 'set in the 70s in the USA, in a pretty ordinary suburb. The story revolves around the Lisbon sisters, five high school students who, because of their tragic fate, end up becoming the embodiment of the forbidden dream of youth and innocence for the group of suitors that acts as a collective narrator of the novel.
Even though I preferred "Middlesex" (opinion which is not shared by all), I liked it a lot. Rather than go on a depressing or pathetic tone as you might expect given the theme of suicide, the novel follows the double track of fascination and of an almost morbid interest. Although you know from the beginning how the story will end, you can not stop reading. Seemingly unimportant details are what remain particularly impressed because they seem to acquire symbolic value.
Sofia Coppola in 1999 made this book into a film with Kirsten Dunst, "The Virgin Suicides", which I found well done and faithful to the book.
"The Virgin Suicides" is the first novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, the author of one of my favorite novels, "Middlesex".
It 'set in the 70s in the USA, in a pretty ordinary suburb. The story revolves around the Lisbon sisters, five high school students who, because of their tragic fate, end up becoming the embodiment of the forbidden dream of youth and innocence for the group of suitors that acts as a collective narrator of the novel.
Even though I preferred "Middlesex" (opinion which is not shared by all), I liked it a lot. Rather than go on a depressing or pathetic tone as you might expect given the theme of suicide, the novel follows the double track of fascination and of an almost morbid interest. Although you know from the beginning how the story will end, you can not stop reading. Seemingly unimportant details are what remain particularly impressed because they seem to acquire symbolic value.
Sofia Coppola in 1999 made this book into a film with Kirsten Dunst, "The Virgin Suicides", which I found well done and faithful to the book.