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Αμερικάνικη φούγκα

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Ένας συγγραφέας βρίσκεται στο σημείο ναδίρ της ζωής του. Όταν λαμβάνει μια αναπάντεχη πρόσκληση για ένα λογοτεχνικό πρόγραμμα στην Αμερική, αποφασίζει να φύγει, αφήνοντας πίσω τα φαντάσματα που τον στοιχειώνουν. Ωστόσο, στο νέο τόπο το τέλμα γίνεται βαθύτερο. Έτσι ένα πρωί νοικιάζει μια Φορντ και χάνεται στην έρημο. Εκεί συναντά τον άνθρωπο που του αλλάζει για πάντα τη ζωή. Τον άνθρωπο της μαύρης Μάστανγκ. Μια δεύτερη ευκαιρία παρουσιάζεται στον ήρωα του βιβλίου για να ξαναγράψει την ιστορία του από την αρχή. Όταν όμως το αποφασίζει, διαπιστώνει ότι δεν τον κυνηγά μόνον το παρελθόν του, αλλά κι εκείνο ενός άλλου ανθρώπου. Έχει πλέον εμπλακεί σε μια υπόθεση που τον υπερβαίνει. Είναι πια ένας φυγάς στο κέντρο μιας μυστηριώδους καταδίωξης.

Η "Αμερικάνικη φούγκα" αποτελεί ένα σύγχρονο μυθιστόρημα δρόμου, μια αυθεντική περιπέτεια στη Δύση. Ένα βιβλίο που αφενός αποκαλύπτει τα δύο πρόσωπα της Aμερικής και αφετέρου αναδεικνύει τον αγώνα του σημερινού ανθρώπου να ερευνήσει την αληθινή του ταυτότητα και να ανακαλύψει το νόημα της χαμένης του ύπαρξης μέσα στις στάχτες της καμένης του μνήμης.

416 pages, Paperback

First published October 6, 2006

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Alexis Stamatis

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Alexis Stamatis (Greek: Αλέξης Σταμάτης) is a Greek novelist.
He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and earned postgraduate degrees in Architecture and Cinematography in London.
He has published nine novels, several of which have been translated and published in Europe and the USA.
Alexis Stamatis has also published six books of poetry. His second collection, The Architecture of Interior Spaces, was awarded the Nikiforos Vrettakos Prize in 1994. Τwo collections of his poems have been translated in Great Britain.
In 2004 he participated in the renowned International Writing Program of the University of Iowa courtesy of a Fulbright Artists & Art-Scholars Award. In 2007 Etruscan Press won the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts' first International Literary Award for the translation of the novel American Fugue.
In 2009 Alexis Stamatis was writer in residence in Shanghai, invited by the Shanghai Writers Association. He has represented Greece in numerous international book festivals and seminars.
His writing appears regularly in major Greek newspapers and magazines.

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48 reviews1 follower
September 10, 2020
The original idea behind this book is nice, but the way the plot moves forward is flat and unrealistic—a bad thing for a story that wants to be real and believable. The writer knows more things about the US than the average Greek, I get it. Throwing in some city names, a Mustang car, some Navajo philisophy, a former blues/rock singer, Mark Twain and his most known heroes, Oliver Twist and Huck Fin, plus random events like beggars who know poetry and children that live inside a tree trunk won't help a novel feel American or steal any shine from the aforementioned (and widely recognizable) themes and characters. It's raw and often the writer tries to escapes his plot obstacles with new introductions and little success. It's the second book of Stamatis that I read and frankly, it's worse that the first which was written earlier.
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16 reviews6 followers
March 11, 2021
Περιπέτεια με αρκετό σασπένς, μεγάλη πλοκή που διάβασα ευχάριστα. Όμως, κάποιες περιγραφές χώρων τις βρήκα πολύ μεγάλες, χωρίς ουσία στην πλοκή του μυθιστορήματος και περιττές. Επίσης, η ηρωίδα που έφυγε απ' το πατρικό της σπίτι στα 16, έζησε στο περιθώριο με ό,τι αυτό σημαίνει, ξαφνικά μπορεί να παίξει στο πιάνο Φούγκα του Μπραμς!! Ένα έργο που τουλάχιστον χρειάζεται να έχει κάποιος δίπλωμα πιάνου και πολλές ώρες μελέτης πίσω του. Δεν δέχομαι "ποιητική αδεία" μια τέτοια αστοχία.
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May 30, 2018
Αγαπημένος συγγραφέας εδώ και πολλά χρόνια. Έχω διαβάσει τα περισσότερα βιβλία του. Η Αμερικάνικη φούγκα είναι ιδανικό ξεκίνημα για κάποιον θέλει να γνωρίσει τη μεστή, ώριμη και γεμάτη νοήματα γραφή του Σταμάτη.
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13 reviews4 followers
October 28, 2008
"And, suddenly, he felt it. First it was a sharp pain in the back, and at once a terrible jolt of the spinal cord. A hot wave traveled instantly through his whole body. At the same time, everything around him started growing dark. Within less than a second, he felt another piercing pain, this time in his neck, even more acute. Without thinking, he turned around. He could not make out anything, anybody. Sounds started to be muffled, and his mouth filled with liquid. The trees around him looked as if they were bending, as if they were holding their branches up with difficulty in a sky that was being split from within. Everything fluttered, darkness spreading like mist. The air was carrying the city's smells: human, foreign, unbearable. He felt himself falling. It was a slow fall, almost pleasurable. etc."

Okay, that was the ending. I ruined it for you. It's not worth reading to begin with.

It's at least approximately 3.2 times better than Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.
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