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Jude the Obscure de Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure

Autor Thomas Hardy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2010

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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780099518990
ISBN-10: 0099518996
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 130 x 197 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Vintage Publishing

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Recomandăm acest roman celor care doresc să descopere o voce curajoasă ce a sfidat normele secolului al XIX-lea. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra tensiunii dintre ambiția personală și barierele de clasă. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege tranziția către modernism, oferind o analiză psihologică a izolării care rămâne surprinzător de relevantă și astăzi.

Despre autor

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.

Notă biografică

THOMAS HARDY was born on June 2, 1840. His father was a stonemason. He was brought up near Dorchester and trained as an architect. In 1868 his work took him to St Juliot's church in Cornwall where he met his wife-to-be, Emma. His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected by publishers but Desperate Remedies was published in 1871 and this was rapidly followed by Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). He also wrote many other novels, poems and short stories. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was published in 1891. His final novel was Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy was awarded the Order of Merit in 1920 and the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1912. His wife died in 1912 and he later married his secretary. Thomas Hardy died January 11, 1928.

Descriere scurtă

A brooding tragedy which scandalised Hardy's contemporaries on first publication.

Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance. It was met with widespread condemnation upon first publication in 1895 and, as a result, was the last novel Hardy ever wrote.

Recenzii

"Hardy may have been born in 1840 shortly after Victoria came to the throne, but he speaks to the 20th century rather than the 19th."
--Independent

 "Visceral, passionate, sylvan... anti-hypocrisy, anti-repression... dealing with love, death, with young people with everything before them, dealt a cruelly stacked hand... Hardy reaches deeper, into our wildest recesses. In a safe world, he speaks to our animal side."
--Evening Standard
"To no tragic novelist do we surrender more completely at the last...one of the most compassionate of all writers...you feel a kind of agony of helpless tenderness in the writer for all troubled souls" The Times "Hardy may have been born in 1840 shortly after Victoria came to the throne, but he speaks to the 20th century rather than the 19th." Independent "Visceral, passionate, sylvan...anti-hypocrisy, anti-repression..dealing with love, death, with young people with everything before them, dealt a cruelly stacked hand... Hardy reaches deeper, into our wildest recesses. In a safe world, he speaks to our animal side." Evening Standard "A classic outsider novel. An anthem to misery." -- Katy Guest The Independent

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"The greatest tragic writer among English novelists."-Virginia Woolf "There is no other novelist alive with the breadth of sympathy, the knowledge or the power for the creation of Jude." --H. G. Wells endering of a disturbed teenager. Jude the Obscure, the semi-autobiographical final novel from Thomas Hardy explores notions of surprising candor; within the eponymous protagonist lies the tragic truth of failed ambitions and relationships. In a fierce exploration of the darkness of love and the intellect, this is one of the great tragic novels of English literature. Jude Fawley, an earnest boy from a rural English village, dreams of a life of academia despite his working-class background. His childhood schoolmaster has moved away from the village to teach at the University in Christminster. Jude spends his free time self-educating himself with the aspirations of enrolling at Christminster, yet his dreams are thwarted when he falls in love with Arabella, a loutish and deceptive young woman who lures him into a disastrous marriage. After abandoning each other, Jude returns to his dream of becoming a scholar; he moves to Christminster, where he falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and subsequently abandons all hope of academia. An intricate web of darkness ensues when Arabella returns into his life with a troubled son, who she informs is Jude's. Trapped in an uncontrollable descent, Jude's fate delivers him unspeakable tragedy. Jude The Obscure is one of literatures great works that explore the alienation and intricacies of man's place in the world. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Jude the Obscure is both modern and readable.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements and Editorial Note
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Thomas Hardy: A Brief Chronology
Hardy’s Preface (1895), Revised Preface and Postscript (1912)
JUDE THE OBSCURE
Part First, At Marygreen, I-XI
Part Second, At Christminster, I-VII
Part Third, At Melchester, I-X
Part Fourth, At Shaston, I-VI
Part Fifth, At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere, I-VIII
Part Sixth, At Christminster again, I-XI
Appendix A: Major Textual Changes
Appendix B: Comments by Hardy
Appendix C: Contemporaneous Reviews and a Parody
Appendix D: Hardy’s Outlook
Appendix E: Influences and Contexts: Cultural Extracts
Appendix F: Oxford, Jowett, and Educational Opportunity
Appendix G: Divorce in Jude the Obscure
Appendix H: Map of Wessex Appended to the 1895 Edition of Jude the Obscure
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