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
“This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.”
Origine: Surfacing
“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”
Origine: MaddAddam
“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”
                                        
                                        Lady Oracle (1976) 
Origine: Surfacing
                                    
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”
Origine: The Blind Assassin
                                        
                                        Origine: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 268) 
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
                                    
“The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.”
Origine: Surfacing
“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
                                        
                                        Origine: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195) 
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale 
Contesto: (She is reciting the Lord’s prayer) Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
                                    
“But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.”
                                        
                                        Origine: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 13 
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale 
Contesto: These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom. But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
                                    
“Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine! Mine!”
Origine: The Year of the Flood
“All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.”
Origine: The Handmaid's Tale
 
 
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
    