Following in the distant wake of Tom sharpe and his biting humor, American David Sedaris makes English humor his own and ups the ante with a mix of the satirical and the autobiographical. Leaving behind fictions in search of reflections to definitively attack the real. Because in the subjective composition of everything there is enough narrative material, and much more of that humor that escapes melancholy as it can over the years.
Undoubtedly a different author who narrates his own epics that are very close. All survivors of the same shipwreck can find that strange lifeline of the comic. Although the board is in the middle of the ocean, as the author also shows us...
Nothing is so paradoxical and at the same time true to talk about life as the great tragicomedy. It only depends on the prism through which you look to discover what is hilarious about ourselves, chasing shadows between projected futures and lost desires. Sedaris makes us spectators of his life. Sedaris becomes a character and invites us to see our passage through this world as the characters that we also are. There is no choice but to laugh despite everything.
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Calypso
Endowing introspection with action is one of the great virtues of Sedaris. It is true that perhaps without the public figure behind the story, perhaps the matter would not have such significance. But not always our celebrities get naked. And even when the public facet of Sedaris catches us far away, that act of contrition overflowing with courage and commitment can be guessed.
Sedaris goes to the beach, on the Carolina coast, to try to disconnect from everything, but he can't run away from himself. Not even his family. Nor of his work. Nor of his addiction to the bracelet that counts his steps. Or the suicide of his sister. Nor of the father of rights of him. Not Donald Trump. The only solution? Laughing at himself and his miseries as a necessary catharsis to continue living.
According to The Guardian, the most prestigious British newspaper, "David Sedaris is the undisputed king of humorous literature." And Calypso is his definitive work, the one that contains all his laughter, all his melancholy. Eschatological jokes with prose worthy of Dorothy Parker, self-conscious animals, alcoholic ghosts and all the tenderness in the world. A book about that moment when you realize that your life has much more past than future. And you look back, while you smile.
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Sedaris's life is those scenes as remembered in flashback by all of us. The day our uncle got drunk or the anger our mother gave us when we didn't go to class. All focused as stories of a hero of everyday life, the one we all carry inside.
It's not easy being David Sedaris. Growing up in a family that believes the television is the devil. With a mother capable of locking you out of the house in the middle of a snowfall. Playing strip poker when you're still a kid. Looking out for that rich aunt. Posing as a preteen hippy. Being kicked out of your own home for being gay. Or harshly criticized for making your family, all its hilarious and tragicomic miseries, the subject of what you write. On the reason for being the most successful living humorous author on the planet. It's not easy being David Sedaris.
But the complicated thing would be a world without him, without autobiographical stories like these 22 jewels, which show us that laughter is the most valid response to the unexpected, the absurdity of life, the fear of the closest and, of course, the involuntarily funny.
When the flames engulf you
David Sedaris has the extraordinary ability to transform the small miseries of everyday life into hilarious and delirious situations. In this new book of autobiographical stories, he surpasses himself to take his trademark irony to unexpected levels of comedy.
Thus, he tells us about the possible recreational uses that an instrument as sophisticated as a catheter offers, about how a human skeleton can be obtained, about a fascinating parasitic worm that lived for a time in his mother-in-law's leg or about a peculiar method to Quit smoking by traveling to Tokyo.
Sedaris makes it clear that playing with matches can cause a devastating fire and that he himself, following in the footsteps of Groucho Marx and Woody Allen, is the most talented of the players. As always, this new masterpiece of comic literature, full of a scathing and savage satire of the American middle class, manages to perfectly restore the everyday dimension of the absurd and - as if by magic - make the saddest laugh.
