PSummer Erodo, period of weddings. Confess it, every time the envelope with the fateful invitation arrives, that it is compiled in pen with the flourishes of a refined and elegant writing or that instead it is witty and modern, the veins and wrists tremble and think: “Noooo, another wedding!”.
With all the affection that binds you to future spouses the idea of witnessing yet another ceremony and above all an infinite banquet of a thousand courses It ruins your day, but there is nothing to do. It is a bit like a call to weapons and cannot be deserted by citing future malores or impressible business trips. Search friendships and retaliage would be put at risk in the event of a defection would cost you much more than the “simple” presence.
If the wedding then take place in the close family circle not only will it be impossible to extend from participating but you will also be involved in the delirium of the organizationthe most fatal hypothesis, at least for me that I have developed almost an allergy to these functions that often turn into group psychoanalytic sessions unfortunately without a analyst to direct traffic.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
But I’m not the only one given the great success of a series of liberating films on the subject. From The father of the bride in two versions, first with Spencer Tracy, then with Steve Martin, up to My big fat Greek weddingand here I stop because it would become a shopping list. Better to take it to laugh or at least with philosophy and as always literature comes to help us.
“Three days of June” by Anne Tyler (Guanda).
In this case it is Ann Tylerthe US writer winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, who with Three days of June (Guanda) faces the thorny material. The protagonist is the mother of the bride who a handful of hours from her daughter’s wedding hears the world collapse on her. He does not receive a designer promotion, the ex -husband shows up without dress for the ceremony or a place to sleep, but brings with him a Soriano cat and a baggage of witty jokes. And, just to aggravate the situation, the daughter discovers something about her future groom who could send everything upstream.
Both those who do not miss a Tyler book, and those who have been linked to the first successes such as Tourists by chance And then he abandoned him, He will find in this work the pleasure of reading that flies quickly thanks to an ironic and sliding writing And to the author’s ability to enter the ravines of the newspaper by creating characters to whom we can only become attached since they have all our defects and weaknesses. And of course, “Long live the spouses”!
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