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Cassandra at the Wedding door Dorothy Baker
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Cassandra at the Wedding (origineel 1962; editie 2004)

door Dorothy Baker, Deborah Eisenberg (Nawoord)

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Vertaling van: Cassandra at the wedding. - New York : New York Review Book, ©1962. - Ondertitel op omslag: het verhaal van een tweelingzus.
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Titel:Cassandra at the Wedding
Auteurs:Dorothy Baker
Andere auteurs:Deborah Eisenberg (Nawoord)
Info:NYRB Classics (2004), Paperback, 256 pages
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Cassandra at the Wedding door Dorothy Baker (1962)

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(4 1/2 Stars) I will think about the prose in this book for the rest of my life. Cassandra is an absolute force of a main character that feels like an intelligent, intoxicating friend. Mostly, this book is about the (lesbian) fear of a future in which a girlhood in which art, travel, and sisterhood are centered absolutely has to give way to heterosexual marriage. Big things to think about.
Also I love books that are about incredibly specific parts of California, which this book delivers perfectly. ( )
  griller02 | Mar 18, 2024 |
Cassandra At the Wedding by Dorothy Baker was originally published in 1962. It has now been re-published by the New York Review of Books Classics Series and made available to today’s audience. This is an intense story about the relationship between two twin sisters, one of whom is about to get married.

Cassandra has returned to her childhood home to attend her twin’s wedding to a nice, young doctor but she is determined to make her sister call the whole thing off. The book has more than one narrator and I really enjoyed Cassandra’s voice. She’s intense, funny and smart with a definite dark side to her personality. Although her selfishness can seem cruel at times, she was quite likeable. When her twin, Judith became the narrator, I was surprised that I also enjoyed her thoughts and words as well as she definitely has the calmer, more sober personality of the two but she knows and recognizes Cassandra’s darker side.

It is obvious that Cassandra is a lesbian although that fact is never definitely declared in the book. The lesbian overtones are quite subtle which I suspect has a lot to do with the times that the book was published. The family seems to acknowledge and accept Cassandra as she is although Cassandra herself seems to be struggling at times. Cassandra at the Wedding is beautifully written, darkly witty, clever and atmospheric. Dorothy Baker strikes me as a very accomplished author who knows how to write comedy. She also trusts her readers to understand and draw their own conclusions and so doesn’t lay everything out on a platter. ( )
  DeltaQueen50 | Jan 5, 2024 |
Incredible writing. ( )
  booksinbed | Sep 28, 2023 |
incredible. ( )
  femmedyke | Sep 27, 2023 |
Cassandra al matrimonio è un libro difficile da recensire: è uno di quei romanzi apparentemente banali, ma che nascondono al loro interno quella profondità che finisce per farvi ripensare a quanto avete letto per giorni e giorni.

La trama è presto detta. Ci sono due gemelle: una (Judith) sta per sposarsi, ma l'altra (Cassandra) non prende bene la notizia. È davvero tutto qui – o almeno l'intero romanzo si sviluppa da quest'idea. Adesso potrei parlarvi delle difficoltà che Cassandra incontra nel farsi una propria vita distinta da quella della gemella, determinata invece a “staccarsi” dal suo doppio. Potrei, ma questo aspetto del romanzo è stato efficacemente trattato da Peter Cameron nella postfazione inserita in calce a questa edizione di Fazi Editore.

Preferisco parlare invece dell'aspetto queer, visto che si muove non visto per tutto il corso del romanzo. Dico non visto perché è una tematica mai esplicitamente affrontata: Cassandra a un certo punto butta là casualmente di avere una non ben specificata avversione e/o disagio affettivo verso gli uomini e di trovarsi meglio con le donne. Tutto qui.

Troppo poco? No, se pensate che un altro tema del romanzo è l'incapacità di arrendersi e di accontentarsi di una vita “normale” – e forse anche un po' della gelosia verso chi, invece, ci riesce. Anche Cassandra vorrebbe probabilmente trovare qualcuno con cui stare e sistemarsi per bene. Solo che il suo qualcuno, il qualcuno che potrebbe renderla felice, non le permetterebbe comunque di rientrare nei ranghi della “normalità” – e teniamo conto che il romanzo è del 1962.

Quindi Cassandra, tra le altre cose, si trova stretta tra una vita attuale insoddisfacente e l'impossibilità di uscirne a causa sia della sua riluttanza ad abbracciare la normalità socialmente accettata sia ad affrontare se stessa (che potremmo ulteriormente scindere in necessità di vedersi come individuo distinto dalla gemella e come donna lesbica).

Un romanzo bello denso, insomma. Aggiungeteci il talento per il dialogo di Dorothy Baker e avrete un libro assolutamente godibile e che andrebbe analizzato nei corsi di lettura (lo sappiamo quanto sia difficile scrivere dei dialoghi che non facciano collassare dalla noia i lettori, no?). ( )
  lasiepedimore | Sep 13, 2023 |
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AuteursnaamRolType auteurWerk?Status
Baker, Dorothyprimaire auteuralle editiesbevestigd
Eisenberg, DeborahNawoordSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd
Turner, LowriIntroductieSecundaire auteursommige editiesbevestigd

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