Am primit acum ceva vreme un tag la mine pe blog despre cele mai interesante incipituri din cartile citite. Ma gandeam ca ar fi interesant un topic despre asta.

Daca nu va amintiti inceputul unei carti anume, puteti scrie de exemplu incipitul cartii pe care o cititi acum - poate e interesant


Hmm...cu ce sa incepem?


"Pot, domnule, sa va ofer serviciile mele fara riscul de a va stingheri?"

(Albert Camus - Caderea)

"There was a white horse, on a quiet winter morning, when snow covered the streets gently and was not deep, and the sky was swept with vibrant stars, except in the east, where dawn was beginning in a light blue flood." (Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale)

Voiam sa pun inceputul de la Gunslinger, de King, dar o las pe Jen

apropo de fraze de inceput....din seria "It was a dark and stormy night", saptamana trecuta s-au acordat premiile Bulwer-Lytton castigatorul a fost Garrison Spik cu fraza asta:"Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.'"http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

Nu stiu de ce imi vine in minte următorul incipit : ''în câmpia Dunării, cu câţiva ani înaintea celui de-al doilea război mondial, se părea că tîmpul avea cu oamenii nesfârşită răbdare''. Probabil pentru că a fost comentat şi supracomentat la orele de limba română când vorbeam de ''Moromeţii''.

Dar îmi mai place şi ''It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.'' a lui Jane Austen.

Preferatul este ''The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.'' Stephen King în ''It''.

"You are a mystery, my dear" her mother said, and Grady, gazing across the table through a centerpiece of roses and fern, smiled indulgently: yes, I am a mystery, and it pleased her to think so.


Truman Capote - Summer Crossing - ce am inceput acum sa citesc

Ma conformez...

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

hmm...nu pot sa spun ca am citit Stephen King sau ca planuiesc, dar ala e exact genul de fraza care te face sa citesti in continuare (sau mai bine spus, sa vrei sa citesti in continuare)

Dap, pentru asta este laudata. Si restul cartii mi-a placut. As far as fantasy-with-a-twist westerns go... M-am oprit la Wolves of The Cala, pentru ca Wizard And Glass m-a cam dezamagit. Dar avem vreme de continuari...

Iaca un alt inceput care te face sa vrei sa citesti mai departe:

"At the height of the long wet summer of the Seventy-Seventh Year of Sendovani, the Thiefmaker of Camorr paid a sudden and unnanounced visit to the Eyeless Priest at the Temple of Perelandro, desperately hoping to sell him the Lamora boy."
(Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora)

Din fericire dupa Wizard and Glass actiunea (si stilul) revin la "normal". Si pe mine m-a cam plictisit, desi am vazut multi fani super incantati.

Locke Lamora pwns.

imi vin acum in minte doua celebre inceputuri dickensiene:

it was the best of times, it was the worst of times - a tale of two cities

whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show - david copperfield

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
Probabil fraza care suna cel mai frumos din toata limba engleza.
Si in franceza:
Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure.
Du côté de chez Swann - Proust

"Inca de copil ghiceam ca zambetul acela aparte insemna pentru fiecare femeie o mica si ciudata victorie."

(Andrei Makine - Testamentul Francez)

"There was a boy called Odd, and there was nothing strange or unusual about that, not in that time or place." - Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants

Odd e un cuvant de origine nordica. Stie cineva ce insemana odd pentru vikingi?

Raspunsul e in a doua propozitie a primului paragraf din carte. Dar mai intai va las pe voi sa ghiciti!

Odd asta sa inteleg ca are alt sens fata de sensurile din engleza moderna?