An edition of The Lottery (1983)

La lotteria

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An edition of The Lottery (1983)

La lotteria

  • 3.70 ·
  • 23 Ratings
  • 117 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 38 Have read

Il racconto di Shirley Jackson intitolato La lotteria ricorda da vicino, per la fama che lo circonda, la famigerata lettura radiofonica della Guerra dei Mondi di Orson Welles. Fama non immeritata, giacché la pubblicazione sul «New Yorker», nel 1949, scatenò un pandemonio. Molti lo presero alla lettera, reagendo all’istante e poi per lungo tempo con missive indignate o atterrite alla redazione. Certe cose non potevano, non dovevano succedere. Eppure la storia si presenta in tutta innocenza quale pura e semplice descrizione della lotteria che si svolge nell’atmosfera pastorale, quasi idilliaca, di un villaggio del New England in un luminoso mattino di giugno – come ogni anno da tempo immemore. Ma giunto al termine di questo racconto, come degli altri che compongono l’intensa silloge qui proposta, il lettore scoprirà da sé, in un crescendo di «brividi sommessi e progressivi» – come diceva Dorothy Parker –, che cosa li rende dei classici del terrore. Secondo un altro illustre ammiratore della Jackson, oltre che maestro del genere, Stephen King, lo sono perché «finiscono con una svolta che porta dritto in un vicolo buio».

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Adelphi
Pages
555

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Cover of: The lottery
The lottery
2008, Creative Education
in English
Cover of: La lotteria
La lotteria
2007, Adelphi
Brossura
Cover of: The lottery
The lottery
1991, J.D. Grahame Cracker Press
in English
Cover of: The Lottery
The Lottery
1990, Perfection Learning Corp.
Paperback in English - 13th printing
Cover of: The Lottery.
The Lottery.
1988, Robinson, Robinson Publishing
in English
Cover of: The lottery
The lottery
1983, Creative Education
in English

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Franco Salvatorelli

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Brossura
Number of pages
555

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OL25426401M
ISBN 13
9788845921841
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Q56563105

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