#Dalva

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Love According to Dalva (2022) | dir. Emmanuelle Nicot

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There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything. I sat down on the ground to avoid tipping over from the enormity of it all.

― Jim Harrison, Dalva: A Novel

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Dalva (Emmanuelle Nicot, 2022)

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Dalva

(Emmanuelle Nicot, 2022)

Aborda un tema de lo más oscuro y escalofriante lejos de adoctrinamientos y moralismos fáciles. Nos enseña con cuidadosos y lentos close ups y semi close ups, demorándose en los detalles de su aspecto, una niña que ha sido transformada prematuramente en una mujer, o quizá una muñeca complaciente. La seguimos en su deconstrucción y su trayectoria de reconstrucción.

Dalva redescubre poco a poco la libertad de ser y sentir como una niña de su edad, y su propia identidad fuera de los esquemas atroces del control y la explotación.

Película delicada y cariñosa, muy realista pero sin volverse nunca melodramática. La infancia robada no volverá, pero habrá una rendija de luz, como la que ilumina el rostro de Dalva dormida en el armario. Preciosa.

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Dalva by Jim Harrison - 4/5

I’ve largely abandoned my fiction-reading for memoirs, journals, and other nonfiction. I have read too many books that sacrifice character for plot, and as a result, they just don’t compel me. In biography, and especially autobiography, the author is distilled into character, without the pressures of plot. So when a novel is written like a memoir, I’m interested — in the case of Dalva, the execution depends on the quality of the character.

In a way, Jim Harrison’s Dalva is a western. Much focus is given to the cultural and ecological landscape of Nebraska and its grim history during Manifest Destiny. To describe the plot of Dalva would do it a disservice — at heart, the book is simple: it is a story about its title character searching for her long-lost son. Dalva’s sections are written as a letter to her son, and the character is so convincing that I felt like I was reading a work of nonfiction. Part of this has to do with how meandering the book is — nothing much happens in the first third of the book, but it was nevertheless my favorite part, because Dalva’s voice was so interesting.

Where Harrison lost me was the middle section, concerning a man who has a fling with Dalva while researching her family history. The difference between the sections was that Michael just wasn’t an interesting, or even a believable guy to read about! He will say something really genius, like “If the Nazis had won the war the Holocaust, finally, would have been set to music, just as our victorious and bloody trek west is accompanied on film by thousands of violins and kettle drums,” and then go on and on about how down bad he is for teenagers. Just not an interesting guy to spend time in the head of! And when the character is not interesting enough, I would hope the story would be, but in this case it was not.

As hard as it is to describe what this book was about, it was certainly impressive to have crammed so many “themes” into something that feels so nebulous and natural. There’s Dalva and her half-Sioux son, and there’s the conquest of the West, and somehow the two work together. If I have to give this book props for anything it’s for being bluntly honest about America’s genocide of the Native Americans at a time when perhaps most white authors would not dare acknowledge this fact.

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Anthony Fineran, Dalva Dores, 2024

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O DALVA PORTO TAWNY 50 ANOS É LANÇADO ESTE MÊS

O Dalva Porto Tawny 50 Anos acaba de chegar ao mercado. Depois da recente alteração da legislação do IVDP, que só há pouco tempo autorizou este novo vinho na categoria dos vinhos de Idade – até então incluía apenas os 10, 20, 30 e 40 anos, o Dalva Porto Tawny 50 Anos surge como um reflexo da herança histórica da casa C. da Silva. A riqueza em vinhos muito velhos, aliada ao saber, resultaram…

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Филми и сериали: Септември

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Love According to Dalva (2022) | dir. Emmanuelle Nicot

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Jessica Dalva

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Knight Terrors: Poison Ivy #1 (All covers)

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Jessica Dalva - Poison Ivy