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
“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”
Origine: Lady Oracle
“You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.”
Origine: Oryx and Crake
“I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.”
Origine: Oryx and Crake
“Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.”
Origine: Surfacing
“How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
“There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.”
Origine: The Blind Assassin
“Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
“How were we to know we were happy?”
Variante: We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
Origine: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 192-193)
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
Contesto: I'll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew he meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real.
“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”
Origine: Oryx and Crake
“Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.”
Origine: The Robber Bride
“So much better to travel than to arrive.”
Origine: The Blind Assassin