6/7/2023 0 Comments Cathedral novel raymond carver![]() ![]() È la prima volta che leggo qualcosa di questo autore, che avevo in lista. ![]() This is a work I wished I had read myself, rather than listened to here. In biblioteca ho trovato l’edizione 2010 della raccolta di racconti Cattedrale di Raymond Carver. While he does choose to alter his voice for some characters' dialogue (very slightly), and throw in an inflection when a character is raising their voice (again, slightly), overall, I feel he's only been able to accomplish sucking the emotion out of each of these pieces, leaving behind what sounds like to me a recitation of individual words wholly unconcerned with the word that came before it, or that comes after. Particularly, the insistent, unvaried rhythm he reads at paints Carver's stories as monotonous rather than restrained. Norman Dietz reads through the prose as if he's reading a dictionary. I simply found the choice for the performance of this work to be overwhelmingly distracting, rather than effective. I appreciate that with recordings of work, the performer has the license to perform the work in the way they see fit, presumably in a way that might help the listener understand the nuance of the writing. ![]()
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