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Jude the Obscure de Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure: Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry

Autor Thomas Hardy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 mai 2013

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: 9781108060431
ISBN-10: 1108060439
Pagini: 532
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illus. 1 map
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:Prescurtată
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

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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.

Descriere scurtă

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) wanted his last novel 'to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity, and to point, without a mincing of words, the tragedy of unfulfilled aims'. First published in its present form in 1895 (although post-dated 1896) after appearing as an abridged serial, the work was met with as much opprobrium as admiration. Critics wrote reviews entitled 'Jude the Obscene' and 'Hardy the Degenerate' because of the novel's explicit content and deliberate attacks on the education system and marriage laws; even Hardy's wife took personal offence. Sparse and bleak, the story follows Jude Fawley, a promising self-taught scholar and village stonemason, as he navigates with increasing difficulty between the prejudices of the class system and two very different women: his wife, Arabella, and his ethereal, disturbed love, Sue Bridehead.

Cuprins

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.

Descriere

First published as a novel in 1895, Jude the Obscure is Thomas Hardy's tragedy of defeated intellect and impossible passion.

Notă biografică

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. He destroyed the manuscript of his first, unplaced novel, but -- encouraged by mentor and friend George Meredith -- tried again. His important work took place in an area of southern England he called Wessex, named after the English kingdom that existed before the Norman Conquest.

Recenzii

When Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude’s sexual relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian hypocrisy, its depiction of the “New Woman,” and its attacks on “holy wedlock” and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called the book “Jude the Obscene.” Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel marked the culmination of Hardy’s development as a leading novelist of the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. The Broadview edition restores the original, controversial 1895 text.

“Cedric Watts’s edition of Jude the Obscure is one of an extremely interesting set of literary works from Broadview Press, distinguished by wise editorial choices and inclusion of a variety of documents contemporary with the works. Watts is one of our era’s most resourceful and level-headed analysts of literature, and his introduction richly sketches the angles of several controversies current in Hardy’s time. There are numerous selections from writings which influenced Hardy (science, philosophy, poems, the Bible) excerpts from essays and poems from the late nineteenth century, and materials in categories such as divorce, and university education, all of which amplify and add to Watts’ comments, and stimulate thinking about Hardy and nineteenth-century subjects, as well as about our own time.” — Dale Kramer, University of Oregon
“This is an informative and scholarly edition of the novel which brings out its explosive nature, why it so scandalised Hardy’s contemporaries. Professor Watts provides a clear, lively introduction, helpful notes and a wealth of material on the textual history of Jude the Obscure, its contemporary reception and its intellectual and social context. Readers of Hardy will find it immensely useful.” — T.R. Wright, University of Newcastle
“Broadview Press and editor Cedric Watts have done a splendid job.” — English Literature in Transition