“… he resolved never again to kiss earth for any god or man. This decision, however, made a hole in him, a vacancy…” Salman Rushdie in Midnight’s Children.
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21.3.07

Vida Vivida





Everyman. Um livro escrito da morte e para a morte, e por isso repleto de vida, de uma vida vivida. A inconfundível escrita de Roth em que cada palavra, cada frase tem um peso e densidade muito particular e uma grandiosa beleza. O ser (verbo e não nome) humano em toda a sua plenitude, seu pathos, seu fado: a infância, o sexo, a morte. O facto de ser uma narrativa escrita, apesar de introspectiva e intimista, na terceira pessoa é, neste caso, interessante porque sempre um pouco perturbante. Nada em Roth é light, cada unidade semântica é uma porta que se abre, um ponto de partida, um mote.

Nothing could extinguish the vitality of that boy whose slender little torpedo of an unscathed body once rode the big Atlantic waves from a hundred yards out in the wild ocean all the way in to shore. Oh, the abandon of it, and the smell of the salt water and the scorching sun! Daylight, he thought, penetrating everywhere, day after summer day of that daylight blazing off a living sea, an optical treasure so vast and valuable that he could have been peering through the jeweler’s loupe engraved with his father’s initials at the perfect, priceless planet itself - at his home, the billion-, the trillion-, the quadrillion-carat planet Earth! He went under feeling far from felled, anything but doomed, eager yet again to be fulfilled, but nonetheless, he never woke up. Cardiac arrest. He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he’d feared from the start.
Philip Roth, Everyman

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