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'Sylvia', Leonard Michaels

Sylvia Leonard Michaels
Editorial Vienna
1st edition, June 2010 Translation of Sorrows
Udina
Genre: Novel

156 pages ISBN: 9788483306062

We had to wait until 2010 to read in Catalan and English texts of some of the American writer Leonard Michaels (New York, 1933 - San Francisco, 2003), a name totally unknown in our country but the United States it has been argued in recent years as one of the great forgotten voices to be retrieved. Now the label Lumen published in English Los cuentos , an anthology their stories, while the Vienna publisher offers readers the translation into Catalan of Sylvia, a short novel autobiographical in nature and quality overwhelming.

In Sylvia, Michaels makes a perfect recreation of the lifestyle that many young Americans duur sixties: drugs, sex (and sexual liberation), alcohol, music and even those excesses that cause premature deaths too (as the author says, were the times when "the French intellectuals advocating loyalty to Stalin and the Marquis de Sade," Ornette Coleman extract the essence of jazz "and" smart president John, F. Kennedy is tugging film actresses "and" everything was glowing. ") To make this recreation, the author tells the story of a young man who marries a girl who has absolutely unstable love-hate relationship difficult to maintain, but impossible to break. He is an aspiring writer and she a student unsuccessfully convinced that the world is against it, why does that pour their hatred against her boyfriend:

" The Sylvia appeared in my room.
- I can not stand the noise of the machine.
- I minimal noise possible.
- Same. There are " (Extract from the novel)

seems impossible not to be seduced by the prose of this story by Leonard Michaels and Stormy. Sylvia is a stunning novel, brilliant and a good way understand that American youth began to realize that their independence and sought to secede from that moral conservative fifties who do not let themselves be. It is said we congratulate translations reach us from Michaels and the force transmitted texts. Brutal!