Frasi di Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood è una poetessa, scrittrice e ambientalista canadese.

Prolifica critica letteraria, femminista e attivista, è stata vincitrice del premio Arthur C. Clarke e del Premio Principe delle Asturie per la letteratura, e soprattutto due volte del prestigioso Booker Prize ; è stata inoltre sette volte finalista del Governor General's Award vincendolo per due volte . La Atwood è una delle scrittrici viventi di narrativa e di fantascienza più premiate. È conosciuta particolarmente per i suoi romanzi e le sue poesie, ma è anche nota per la sua notevole attività a favore del femminismo. Molte delle sue poesie sono ispirate a miti e fiabe, che costituiscono uno dei suoi particolari interessi fin dalla più tenera età. Ha inoltre pubblicato racconti nella rivista Playboy.

Le sue opere testimoniano una continua e profonda preoccupazione per la civiltà occidentale e per la politica, da lei considerate a un crescente stadio di degrado. Da La donna da mangiare a Tornare a galla fino a Il racconto dell'ancella, Vera spazzatura e altri racconti, L'ultimo degli uomini e il più recente L'anno del Diluvio, la narrativa di Margaret Atwood si presenta in una veste tormentata e visionaria, non priva però di spiragli ottimistici. La vasta cultura e l'ironia sono due componenti fondamentali della sua opera, accompagnate quali sono da sensibili cambiamenti di stile da opera ad opera e continui rimandi sia ad episodi della vita contemporanea, sia a scrittori di epoche precedenti. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Novembre 1939   •   Altri nomi Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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“Una guerra tra le donne, rispetto a una guerra contro le donne, dà sempre benefici a coloro che alle donne non augurano del bene.”

A war among women, as opposed to a war on women, is always pleasing to those who do not wish women well.

“Una parola dopo una parola dopo una parola è potere.”

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della letteratura, traduzione di Daniele Ballarini, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 14. ISBN 9788858024416

Margaret Atwood: Frasi in inglese

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

Contesto: "Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, "a male friend of mine." It's often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don't want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that you do have male friends, that you aren't one of those fire-breathing mythical monsters, The Radical Feminists, who walk around with little pairs of scissors and kick men in the shins if they open doors for you. "A male friend of mine" also gives — let us admit it — a certain weight to the opinions expressed.) So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

Margaret Atwood libro Il racconto dell'ancella

Origine: The Handmaid's Tale

“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”

Margaret Atwood libro The Blind Assassin

Origine: The Blind Assassin

“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing”

On Writing Poetry (1995)
Contesto: After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight

“My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.”

Margaret Atwood libro Morning in the Burned House

Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
Contesto: Instead of this, I tell
what I hope will pass as truth.
A blunt thing, not lovely.
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner,
though I am good at what I do.
My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.”

Margaret Atwood libro The Blind Assassin

Origine: The Blind Assassin (2000)
Contesto: All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. …Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

“War is what happens when language fails.”

Margaret Atwood libro The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride (1993), Ch. 6

“Do not let the bastards grind you down.”
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Margaret Atwood libro Il racconto dell'ancella

Variante: Do not let the bastards grind you down.
Origine: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 9 (p. 52)
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Margaret Atwood libro Bluebeard's Egg

Origine: Bluebeard's Egg

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

Margaret Atwood libro Il racconto dell'ancella

Variante: We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Origine: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 10 (p. 56)
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale

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