"I may not be someone exciting," says the first page the narrator of "Bridge of Sighs" by R. Russo. Here is a little trite incipit, far from set pieces enticing whose intention is only too obvious, take the reader into his nets, which are revealed when the result is not up, be only smoke and mirrors. Yet, with this early on tiptoe, as if apologizing for such a little disturbing, R. Russo manages the feat of interest to the reader the fate of a hero wan, melancholy and insecure him for more than 700 pages. From the bottom
memories of Lou C. Lynch decides to write his memoirs, are exhumed 60 years of the life of Thomaston, a small town in the far reaches of upstate New York with its rivalries between neighborhoods, its plant whose toxic wastewater spoof the disease and its secrets. Because contrary to what the title suggests, the action of "Bridge of Sighs" is not located in Venice. Like "The Decline of the Whiting," his previous novel awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Richard Russo chose to anchor his story in even a small industrial town.
Lou C. Lynch, The main character is a sexagenarian, while the portrait of his father liked a man for his kindness but that does not shine through his mind. Muffled since childhood nickname of ridicule Lucy (Lou C.), Lou Lynch, married the lovely and lively and Sarah did grow the family business: he is now head of an "empire" of three grocery stores . If it is a happy man, he is nevertheless deeply melancholy and haunted by trauma occurred in childhood.
One of the most interesting aspects of the novel is how Russo talks about the influence of the ascendant almost supernatural only be exercised on another. Bobby Marconi, reluctantly, has this power over its neighbor Lucy since childhood. Fascination turns to obsession when Bobby's parents move to another part: as a jilted lover Lucy phone to Bobby, he wrote, went home. And the spell continues as an adult Lucy is still haunted by the memory of Bobby. It is true that all people in Thomaston, Bobby is the only one to have escaped a fate mapped out. By changing its name in exile in Venice, where he became a famous painter, he "managed to
do what we all imagine when we were young, before time and repetition erode and trivialize the mystery of existence. I say that Bobby is the only one to have invented a life and character that goes with it. "
Despite a dip in the first 200 pages and lack of credibility of the passages located in Venice, and particularly the painter, "Bridge of Sighs" is a great book that manages to live a world. R Russo portrayed with tenderness and humor the sacrifices of people condemned to live the same life as their parents, the regret of those who think he was wrong in life, unfulfilled desires. Throughout the pages emerges a portrait gallery of finely sketched: the earthy Uncle Jan, the failed writer and megalomaniac, the most beautiful girl in school whose beauty fades with time. Filigree of the narrative of the life of Lou reads the history of America's decline of small towns, earned by poverty and unemployment.
"Bridge of Sighs" by R. Russo, Ed Quai Voltaire, La Table Ronde, 2008, 726 p., 25 €.
memories of Lou C. Lynch decides to write his memoirs, are exhumed 60 years of the life of Thomaston, a small town in the far reaches of upstate New York with its rivalries between neighborhoods, its plant whose toxic wastewater spoof the disease and its secrets. Because contrary to what the title suggests, the action of "Bridge of Sighs" is not located in Venice. Like "The Decline of the Whiting," his previous novel awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Richard Russo chose to anchor his story in even a small industrial town.
Lou C. Lynch, The main character is a sexagenarian, while the portrait of his father liked a man for his kindness but that does not shine through his mind. Muffled since childhood nickname of ridicule Lucy (Lou C.), Lou Lynch, married the lovely and lively and Sarah did grow the family business: he is now head of an "empire" of three grocery stores . If it is a happy man, he is nevertheless deeply melancholy and haunted by trauma occurred in childhood.
One of the most interesting aspects of the novel is how Russo talks about the influence of the ascendant almost supernatural only be exercised on another. Bobby Marconi, reluctantly, has this power over its neighbor Lucy since childhood. Fascination turns to obsession when Bobby's parents move to another part: as a jilted lover Lucy phone to Bobby, he wrote, went home. And the spell continues as an adult Lucy is still haunted by the memory of Bobby. It is true that all people in Thomaston, Bobby is the only one to have escaped a fate mapped out. By changing its name in exile in Venice, where he became a famous painter, he "managed to
do what we all imagine when we were young, before time and repetition erode and trivialize the mystery of existence. I say that Bobby is the only one to have invented a life and character that goes with it. "
Despite a dip in the first 200 pages and lack of credibility of the passages located in Venice, and particularly the painter, "Bridge of Sighs" is a great book that manages to live a world. R Russo portrayed with tenderness and humor the sacrifices of people condemned to live the same life as their parents, the regret of those who think he was wrong in life, unfulfilled desires. Throughout the pages emerges a portrait gallery of finely sketched: the earthy Uncle Jan, the failed writer and megalomaniac, the most beautiful girl in school whose beauty fades with time. Filigree of the narrative of the life of Lou reads the history of America's decline of small towns, earned by poverty and unemployment.
"Bridge of Sighs" by R. Russo, Ed Quai Voltaire, La Table Ronde, 2008, 726 p., 25 €.
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