da Il canto di Penelope. Il mito del ritorno di Odisseo
Margaret Atwood frasi celebri
Non sottovalutatelo.
Il racconto dell'Ancella
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
Frasi su tempo di Margaret Atwood
Il racconto dell'Ancella
Il racconto dell'Ancella
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood Frasi e Citazioni
Tra poco ci sarà più gente di quanto la Terra possa sostenere.
Il racconto dell'Ancella
Alias Grace
The Handmaid's Tale
Cat's Eye
citato in Margaret Atwood, Ontario Review Press, 1990
Oryx and Crake
The Handmaid's Tale
“La Natura esige, per gli uomini, la varietà.”
The Handmaid's Tale
“Un film sul passato non è lo stesso che il passato.”
The Handmaid's Tale
“Fa’ della tua vita un tributo per chi fu tuo.”
The Handmaid's Tale
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
“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
Origine: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 143)
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
“I am not your justification for existence.”
The Handmaid's Tale
“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
Origine: Alias Grace
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
Origine: The Year of the Flood
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
Origine: The Blind Assassin
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”
Origine: Cat's Eye
Surfacing (1972) p. 107
The premise for this quote is now known to be a linguistic myth stemming from the early 20th century work of Franz Boas. This quote by Atwood has been cited as an example of the perpetuation of this myth https://books.google.ca/books/about/White_Lies_about_the_Inuit.html?id=i-osjdNH3g8C.
Variante: The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
“I feel like the word shatter.”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”
Origine: The Blind Assassin
Origine: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 7 (pp. 39-40)
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
Origine: Cat's Eye
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
“Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale