Cassandra at the Wedding (NYRB Classics) -

Dorothy Baker

New York Review of Books

2012

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9781590176016

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.

Dorothy Baker’s entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken—at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother, as she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has.

First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.

Resenhas (2)

5 (Perfeito)

Primoroso

Isso que chamo de um LIVRO. Além da Dorothy Baker ter uma escrita refrescante e extremamente inteligente, que usa o arcabouço filosófico ocidental de uma forma irreverente sem ser pedante, ela consegue nos envolver na psique fragmentada da Cassandra em sua busca por completude de maneira singular. É a crise de crescer, a crise da escritora e a crise do eu em relação ao outro, tudo isso dentro da fascinante e perturbadora dinâmica de irmãs gêmeas.
Genial, se tornou um dos meus livros favoritos. Não vejo a hora de ler novamente.