Un romanzo-saggio improntato sulleducazione sentimentale di una fanciulla; con la catarsi del lieto fine. La protagonista; Synthesis; personaggio contraddittorio;attraversa la vita sempre sullorlo di una crisi; passando damore in amore e rimanendo alloscuro di un mistero che si nasconde in lei; lo sveleragrave; nel corso di un lungo processo di formazione; allinterno di un percorso filosofico-psicologico. La ragazza si sposta alla ricerca di seacute; in luoghi incantevoli e ritrova unamica che laiuta a ricordare e curare le ferite dellanima. Dotata di profonditagrave; danalisi; Synthesis incontra un uomo che fa chiarezza sui motivi delle sue contraddizioni; scopre le sue vite precedenti e in Tibet riceve unilluminazione che dissipa le ombre interiori. Un incontro fatale si trasforma in perfetto amore; in unesistenza da sogno entro il tempo ritrovato; che vince sulle contraddizioni dellanima e fa ottenere alla protagonista la forza per diventare un modello di riferimento nella ricerca della "libertagrave; libera"; secondo lrsquo;espressione dei rivoluzionari greci dei primi del 900; idea ereditata dal nonno ex partigiano. Una storia avvincente; che scava dentro le profonditagrave; dellanima femminile.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Stearns does shed excellent light on context and insight into the band and ...By Chris HertleinIve been listening to this album for about 14 years. Its one of the most influential albums of my young life and for certain helped me expand out of the tight circle of music I had back in my teenage high school years. I regularly wax poetic about it to anyone who will bother to listen.But this book... whoa.Stearns is a music journalist. Every single section begins with a quote or an excerpt from somewhere. Then an exceptionally hyperbolic thesis statement on how each aspect explored is the most masterful thing to have ever been committed to tape.The music. The themes. The settings.I swear to god if I have to read; see or hear any other piece of media that claims New York City is just as much a character / part of the band I will shoot myself.I cringed half the time I was reading this book. The masturbatory purple prose seems to SEEK to make you feel uncomfortable.However...What I find most fascinating about the book is the depictions actually shown from the interviews and quotes from Sonic Youth and the sound engineer that worked on Daydream Nation.While Stearns is stumbling over himself to gush maximally over anything and everything Sonic Youth; the most refreshing part of the book is that the members of Sonic Youth seem humble and modest in comparison. It further grounds an already down-to-Earth band which lends more power to the material.Stearns does shed excellent light on context and insight into the band and the thoughts and feelings poured into the creation of the album along the way which makes the price of admission worth it; if you can just push through the cringe worthy prose. A lovely irony I weaved into the narrative happens most often during the track by track analysis. While walking the reader step by step through each song; Stearns reaches *REAL* hard into his high school English AP skills and digs hard into the symbolism and imagery of the songs. Theres a section where Lee Ranaldo describes how he was floored by reading Raymond Carvers "What We Do When We Talk About Love" for the first time and how he fell in love with American Minimalist writers and the power they packed into such sparse stories. Theres more density in what you didnt say than what you did is the lesson to be gleamed there... but Stearns seems to bruise; batter and contort EVERY SINGLE LYRIC to tease out any and all literal possible meanings of whats happening in each song. And if you get a feel for what Ranaldo says about Carver and the types of stream-of-consciousness thats employed in it... the analysis feels like hes reaching HARD or more often just plain wrong. Yet... I find myself empathizing because he does truly love the album and he seeks to apply and project his own lens and vocabulary onto it in the ways he knows how. So I cant fault him. Even if it is so brazenly self-indulgent.Being a sort of counter-culturalist at heart; I havent decided if its a stroke of genius for Stearns to gush so exceptionally over the album that its forced me to confront my own feelings and ideas about how I perceive the album and I find myself really analyzing it for what *I* like about the music and album as a whole rather than fall prey to the 160 page circle jerk session this lends.I really think its worth reading; but please; take it for a heaping grain of salt. Remember what YOU like and why you like it and compare it against what you read.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. In Contrast...By Z. StieglerI have to say that this is actually on of my favorites in the series so far. Stearns was able to go to the source; and spent a lot of time interviewing members of SY; which adds a lot of great information and depth to his book. I was also incredibly hooked by the introduction; where Stearns has some incredibly insightful things to say about music; recorded sound and the album format in general. I appear to be in the minority here; but I rank this one highly.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy James PeabodyA+
