The other day, dining, a writer, I recommended, among other films, see The World According to Barney . I pay attention, because it is based on a novel, titled here Barney's version, the Canadian writer Mordecai Richler. I bought and read immediately when it came out ten years ago, in an edition of Mondadori it had no success until the end of that, I suspect, much of the run was destroyed soon. I suppose in some libraries will have it. Now, due to the premiere of the film, has reissued (with the same translation, excellent, Miguel Martinez-Lage), a small publisher, Sixth Floor, albeit at a price, 27 euros, clearly excessive.
I came home the other day, however, with some regret, because the truth is that I remember nothing, or almost all, of this novel, ten years later. What is the plot? What is? What happens to Barney, what gives his version? No idea.
I have only one point absolutely clear in my memory: I enjoyed a lot with Barney's version, which I found an excellent book. That memory itself is clean, crisp.
Great, I will address the rereading with renewed enthusiasm. And with that memory, enough for me to make a recommendation to anyone.
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