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Frammenti
Immaġina li qomt filgħodu u d-dinja ta’ madwarek ma baqgħetx kif kienet. Anzi, id-dinja ta’ madwarek ma baqgħetx hemm. Kulħadd telaq … karozzi, nies, annimali. X’tagħmel kieku?
Hekk ġralu l-protagonist ta’ Frammenti. Stenbaħ biex imur għax-xogħol kif dejjem kien jagħmel. Imma din id-darba, malli ħareġ minn daru, sab baħħ. X’seta’ ġara? Kif kollox għeb?
Sa ma sab lil Sophie — forsi l-unika persuna li kien għad fadal.
Hekk ġralu l-protagonist ta’ Frammenti. Stenbaħ biex imur għax-xogħol kif dejjem kien jagħmel. Imma din id-darba, malli ħareġ minn daru, sab baħħ. X’seta’ ġara? Kif kollox għeb?
Sa ma sab lil Sophie — forsi l-unika persuna li kien għad fadal.
160 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2021
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November 6, 2021
In literature the journey has always fascinated me : from the Odyssey to , most recently, A Passage North, the concept of a person traveling and undergoing a personal change is a literary device I have read many times and never get bored of.
Tyrone Grima’s Frammenti (Fragments) is also a journey but it is tackled in a different way.
The unknown narrator (and this is stated in the ‘prologue’ ) wakes up and discovers that everyone has disappeared from Malta. The only exception being a teenager called Sophie (incidentally the name Sophie means wisdom, you can interpret that in anyway really) . The narrator joins her and both go on a quest around Malta, visiting different houses. As the journey intensifies we readers learn more about the narrator’s past, mainly, his failed relationship with his boyfriend. We also find a bit more about Sophie’s past in the process.
As the narrator continues his trek he realises that he has to come to terms with his past actions and one can say that the narrator’s M.O. is to seek atonement, The question is whether the narrator can manage to combine past and present and come out a better person.
Frammenti, as I see it, is a book about isolation. There the more prominent one which is the near deserted island but there’s also the isolation the narrator suffers from when in a relationship, which proves that even someone who is supposedly close does not diminish that feeling of desolation.
As I said earlier, the book is a journey and like all journeys the person undertaking it undergoes a change. In Frammenti this occurs during the third section (the book is divided according to the seasons). Like in the odyssey when the crew experience the temptations of the sirens and survive, the narrator experiences temptation in an erotically charged scene. However this time round the narrator gives in an goes through a purge of sorts.
As the title suggests there are lots of fragments throughout the novel: the chronology is fragmented , both Sophie’s and the narrator’s lives are fragmented, society has become fragmented and as the narrator concludes, everything written in the book itself is just fragments and nothing more. The thing is when fragments are put together, one ultimately comes with a full picture and one does occur by the book’s conclusion, maybe the narrator is incorrect in his views of his writings?
Frammenti is a thought provoking novel that can be interpreted in a myriad of ways as a great number of philosophical and religious symbols and metaphors crop up in the narrative. Yet, the book holds well as a page turning story in the process and the narrative has some unexpected twists. Part dystopian, part drama with a bit of thriller thrown in. Frammenti is a book one must read.
Tyrone Grima’s Frammenti (Fragments) is also a journey but it is tackled in a different way.
The unknown narrator (and this is stated in the ‘prologue’ ) wakes up and discovers that everyone has disappeared from Malta. The only exception being a teenager called Sophie (incidentally the name Sophie means wisdom, you can interpret that in anyway really) . The narrator joins her and both go on a quest around Malta, visiting different houses. As the journey intensifies we readers learn more about the narrator’s past, mainly, his failed relationship with his boyfriend. We also find a bit more about Sophie’s past in the process.
As the narrator continues his trek he realises that he has to come to terms with his past actions and one can say that the narrator’s M.O. is to seek atonement, The question is whether the narrator can manage to combine past and present and come out a better person.
Frammenti, as I see it, is a book about isolation. There the more prominent one which is the near deserted island but there’s also the isolation the narrator suffers from when in a relationship, which proves that even someone who is supposedly close does not diminish that feeling of desolation.
As I said earlier, the book is a journey and like all journeys the person undertaking it undergoes a change. In Frammenti this occurs during the third section (the book is divided according to the seasons). Like in the odyssey when the crew experience the temptations of the sirens and survive, the narrator experiences temptation in an erotically charged scene. However this time round the narrator gives in an goes through a purge of sorts.
As the title suggests there are lots of fragments throughout the novel: the chronology is fragmented , both Sophie’s and the narrator’s lives are fragmented, society has become fragmented and as the narrator concludes, everything written in the book itself is just fragments and nothing more. The thing is when fragments are put together, one ultimately comes with a full picture and one does occur by the book’s conclusion, maybe the narrator is incorrect in his views of his writings?
Frammenti is a thought provoking novel that can be interpreted in a myriad of ways as a great number of philosophical and religious symbols and metaphors crop up in the narrative. Yet, the book holds well as a page turning story in the process and the narrative has some unexpected twists. Part dystopian, part drama with a bit of thriller thrown in. Frammenti is a book one must read.
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