The unpredictable publishing market sometimes forgets writers like the Australian Peter carey. And it is a shame because in Carey's works we find a unique author who varies between historical fictions, uchronies, adventures and mysteries that come to us disguised with sophisticated decorations. Because Carey makes language that attire and decoration that fills us with deliberate stridency, absurdities loaded with humor and unsuspected tensions. What happens reemerges from routines imploded by interior dynamites that shelter his characters like great secrets.
Nothing is what it seems in Carey's works. Or at least what appears to be gradually disfiguring to become something else. Plots that escape from the chrysalis where they are born secluded to raise fascinating flights between the metaliterary and the simple symbolic recreation full of color, vitalism and that leave kafkaesque on which many of his narrative developments pivot. Only Carey does not make the allegorical foundation. It is just that "adornment" mentioned above to dazzle readers waiting for precious gifts.
Top 3 recommended books by Peter Carey
The true story of Kelly's gang
On my trip to Australia I enjoyed that feeling of finding yourself on the other side of the world. There where the English sent their most dangerous prisoners like someone deported to Siberia or, even more so, like someone exiled to the Moon. And of course, among all those characters, a caste society was created where the disinherited British became something similar in those parts. bushrangers These or any others who sought their luck in deep Australia were called outlaws who robbed stagecoaches or banks.
The most famous of all was a Ned Kelly who was not behind Billy the kid in the USA or Curro Jiménez in Spain. Criminals who became legends in the popular imagination. Because living outside the law, attacking the rich, sounded like poetic justice for a subjugated people.
In an astonishing display of ventriloquist art, Carey brings to life that mythical Australian highwayman, orphan, Oedipus, horse thief, farmer, bank robber, three-cop killer, and finally Australia's Robin Hood, in one voice. so original and full of passion that it seems that Kelly himself spoke to us from beyond the grave.
The Nature of Tears
In the intimacy of museums closed to the public, their caretakers can enjoy that other life that works take on when they know they are freed from so many expectant gazes. With the vague but precise sensation of that world given over to the mysteries of art, Carey leads us through a story of melancholic loves and unsuspected mysteries...
Catherine Gehrig, Curator of the Swinburne Museum in London, watches her life collapse after the death of her co-worker and lover of the past thirteen years. His latest "Toe Kisses" email arrives in his mailbox after he's already died, and Catherine collapses from the added burden of having to hide her feelings. But her boss, who knows the secret, entrusts her with a project that will keep her away from the scrutiny of others: she must put an automaton jealously guarded in the museum back into operation.
In her quasi-detective endeavors, Catherine also discovers a series of notebooks belonging to Henry Brandling, who, two centuries ago, undertook the arduous search, through artisans and watchmakers, for an artificial duck whose resemblance to a living organism would bring joy back to his life. sick son. Thus, two lonely beings separated by time unite around the mystery of creation and the powerful chemistry of the body.
The tax inspector
The most authentic Peter Carey. The absurd surrounds everything with that feeling that the most intense lucidity can minimize any of the vital questions. From the inquisitive doubts about love to the obsessive questions that end up finding a fulfilled answer in the most resounding reactions. Everything has a place in this novel where the characters explode. Its final outburst leaves that feeling of inevitable collapse, of inability to resolve almost anything.
Peter Carey encloses his beloved characters in this novel in a circle of shadows, in an uncertainty of promises that maximizes the fascination of the reader. What strange curse is on the New South Wales Catchprice, so incestuous and so cute, so fragile and so brutal? What drives Granny Catchprice? Why are you trying to recover paradise with old dynamite? Why does he make his grandson Benny have his miserable fallen angel status tattooed on his back?
Sto leggendo La vera storia del bandita Ned Kelly. The writing effectively renders the language of the true bandit.
I must tell you that I sounded positively hit Olivier and Perrot vanno in America. In this book I found a truly festive ironic vein.