3.5 stars rounded to 4.

- Libro acquistato a gennaio 2024 - Quanto sto per scrivere a proposito del romanzo “La Dama e L’Unicorno”, romanzo edito dalla scrittrice americana Tracy Chevalier nel 2003 che ho appena terminato di leggere, è un mio pensiero molto personale: infatti ritengo, a mio modesto modo di vedere, questo romanzo superiore per qualità narrativa al precedente “La Ragazza dall’Orecchino di Perla” probabilmente perché lì, impedita e bloccata dalle pastoie della Storia e dall’ ingombrante figura di un artis...

"The Lady and the Unicorn" is tale about desire in all of its manifested forms. The desire to be of use, the desire to find happiness, the desire to be inspired, the desire to be free...and all centred around one of the most famous series of early Renaissance tapestries, thought to have been created around 1490 in Belgium.The (female) characters in the novel are at once the images in the tapestries and real women, their stories woven together like a tapestry to tell the story of the creation of ...

Από τα καλύτερα βιβλία που διάβασα το τελευταίο διάστημα!! Το ξεκίνησα εχθές με μία επιφύλαξη αλλά σήμερα που το συνέχισα διαψεύσθηκα. Η Chevalier ξεδιπλώνει μια ιστορία , με τα ελάχιστα στοιχεία που είναι γνωστά από ιστορικής άποψης, με αριστοτεχνικό τρόπο. Οι ήρωες, τα γεγονότα, όλα μπλέκονται μεταξύ τους με τέτοιον τρόπο ώστε μοιάζουν με ενιαίο σύνολο που πράγματι κάποτε συνέβη και δεν φαίνεται να αποτελούν αποκύημα της φαντασίας της συγγραφέως. Οι σελίδες κυλούν πολύ εύκολα και ενώ από την μ...

If I ever read the word maidenhead again in a novel, I will vomit from the flashback of reading this book.

I hope someone has pointed out to Tracy Chevalier that if you are going to have seven different narrators for your story, you really need to give each of them a distinctive voice. This is a major failing of this novel, which I found plodding and flat, and lacking in any genuine exploration of character or motivation. The harsh working lives of the weavers are described in some detail but the description doesn't connect with the characters. And also, if you are going to use the first person in a ...

This is my favorite book of Chevalier's next to the Girl with a Pearl Earring... I loved stepping into the medieval setting and learning the intricacies of creating those gorgeous tapestries I've seen hanging in the Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The characters are great, and the story line has less tragedy, which I preferred.

(Reviewed 3/7/09)

Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful!I found Lady and the Unicorn even better than Girl with a Pearl Earring. I felt utterly transported to the middle ages and immersed in a very good tale, immaculately told.As she did with The Girl With the Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier takes a classic work of art and artfully spins a tale inspired by the original which becomes an original itself.It was specially fascinating living among the Brussels weavers and coming to understand the magnitude of their task. One...

In the same vein as her book Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Lady and the Unicorn is a fictional account of the story surrounding the creation of the famed Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries, now housed at the Musee national du Moyen-Age (Musee Cluny) in Paris. This topic was particularly intriguing to me, since I'd seen the tapestries in person back in 2001.While the book provides a really interesting up-close look at the design and weaving processes, I could have done with out the rest of the stor...

What I learned from this book is I should never ever read anything by this author ever again. A friend of mine was enthralled by The Virgin Blue and requested I read it. Although I hated it I thought I'd possibly give The Lady and the Unicorn a chance since I love art history. Sadly, I cannot say I liked a single thing about this book. I hated the plot, story, characters and writing style. Hated.