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Hardy, T: Jude the Obscure


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Considerăm Jude the Obscure un punct de cotitură radical în realismul victorian, un roman care nu doar respectă convențiile genului, ci le forțează până la punctul de rupere. Dacă în operele anterioare Thomas Hardy păstra o urmă de idilism rural, aici tragismul devine absolut. În tradiția lui Tess of the D'Urbervilles, acest roman continuă critica necruțătoare a structurilor sociale care strivesc individul, însă o face cu o furie intelectuală mult mai vizibilă. Reinterpretând destinul tragic, Hardy mută accentul de pe fatalitatea divină pe cea socială și instituțională. Structura narativă este organizată riguros în șase părți, fiecare marcată de o locație geografică din regiunea fictivă Wessex, simbolizând etapele speranței și, ulterior, ale deziluziei lui Jude Fawley. De la eforturile sale solitare de a învăța latina ca pietrar în Marygreen, până la întoarcerea amară în Christminster, progresia este una a dezintegrării. Ritmul lecturii este dens, susținut de dialoguri filozofice între Jude și Sue Bridehead, o figură feminină surprinzător de modernă care contestă „sfânta căsătorie”. Merită menționat că această operă a provocat un asemenea scandal la apariție, încât un episcop a ars-o în public, determinându-l pe Thomas Hardy să abandoneze proza. Față de Far From the Madding Crowd, unde natura oferea un refugiu, în Jude the Obscure peisajul devine fundalul unei lupte pierdute împotriva ipocriziei academice și religioase. Este, fără îndoială, apoteoza sumbră a întregii sale cariere de romancier.

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ISBN-13: 9781015584594
ISBN-10: 1015584594
Editura: Creative Media Partners, LLC

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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) a fost un romancier și poet englez de o importanță monumentală, reprezentant al realismului victorian cu puternice influențe romantice. Născut în apropiere de Dorchester, el a imortalizat peisajul din sud-vestul Angliei sub numele de Wessex. Deși s-a considerat întotdeauna în primul rând poet, a atins faima prin romane precum The Mayor of Casterbridge și Tess of the D'Urbervilles. După reacțiile ostile primite de Jude the Obscure, Hardy s-a retras din lumea prozei, dedicându-și ultimii treizeci de ani de viață poeziei, publicând peste nouă sute de poeme care au influențat generații întregi de scriitori moderni.


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Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared -- marriage, religion, education -- and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.

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Notă biografică

DESPERATE REMEDIES IS THE SECOND NOVEL BY THOMAS HARDY, ALBEIT THE FIRST TO BE PUBLISHED. IT WAS RELEASED ANONYMOUSLY BY TINSLEY BROTHERS IN 1871. Plot : Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston.Analysis : In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support a sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston, Miss Adclyffe's illegitimate son, whose first wife is believed to have perished in a fire however, their marriage is almost immediately nullified when it emerges that his first wife had left the inn before it caught fire. Manston's wife, apparently, returns to live with him, but Cytherea, her brother, the local rector, and Edward come to suspect that the woman claiming to be Mrs. Manston is an impostor. It emerges that Manston killed his wife in an argument after she left the inn, and had brought in the impostor to prevent his being prosecuted for murder, as the argument had been heard (but not seen) by a poacher, who suspected Manston of murder and had planned to go to the police if his wife did not turn up alive. In the novel's climax, Manston attempts to kidnap Cytherea and flee, but is stopped by Edward he later commits suicide in his cell, and Cytherea and Edward marry.Reviews : Blackmail, murder and romance are among the ingredients of Hardy's first published novel, and in it he draws blithely on the 'sensation novel' perfected by Wilkie Collins. Several perceptive critics praised the author as a novelist with a future when Desperate Remedies appeared anonymously in 1871.

Cuprins

Author's Preface part first: At Marygreen part second: At Christminster part third: At Melchester part fourth: At Shaston part fifth: At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere part sixth: At Christminster Again