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Lady Susan de Jane Austen

Lady Susan

Autor Jane Austen
en Limba Engleză Paperback

Imaginați-vă o protagonistă a lui Jane Austen care nu este o tânără ingenuă aflată la începutul vieții, ci o văduvă de treizeci și cinci de ani, seducătoare și calculată, implicată deja într-o aventură cu un bărbat căsătorit. Descoperim aici o latură surprinzătoare a scriitoarei britanice în Lady Susan, o nuvelă care sfidează convențiile morale ale epocii sale. Reținem vocea distinctă a personajului principal, Lady Susan Vernon, care, sub masca unor maniere impecabile și a unei inteligențe sclipitoare, ascunde un spirit nemilos, orientat exclusiv către propriul beneficiu material și social.

Structura narativă este una pur epistolară, un format pe care Austen l-a explorat în tinerețe și pe care l-a rafinat ulterior în versiunile timpurii ale altor romane. Merită menționat că, prin intermediul scrisorilor, avem acces la un joc dublu fascinant: pe de o parte, tonul mieros și manipularea exercitată asupra familiei Vernon, iar pe de altă parte, sinceritatea cinică din scrisorile către prietena sa, Alicia Johnson. La intersecția dintre Daisy Miller și The Awakening, această operă combină observația socială ascuțită cu portretul unei femei care refuză să joace rolul de victimă pasivă, alegând în schimb să fie arhitectul propriilor intrigi.

În contextul operei sale, dacă în Pride and Prejudice sau Sense and Sensibility autoarea caută echilibrul între rațiune și sentiment, în Lady Susan ea explorează melodrama și satira pură. Este o piesă de tranziție esențială către realismul literar de mai târziu, oferindu-ne una dintre cele mai captivante figuri negative din literatura clasică. Ritmul este alert, dictat de urgența confesiunilor și a comploturilor, lăsând cititorului satisfacția de a vedea cum fiecare personaj primește, în final, o lecție pe măsura faptelor sale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781481274883
ISBN-10: 1481274880
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lectură celor care doresc să descopere o Jane Austen mult mai subversivă și mai ironică decât în romanele sale celebre. Veți câștiga perspectiva unui portret psihologic fascinant — cel al unei anti-eroine care își folosește intelectul ca pe o armă. Este o carte esențială pentru fanii literaturii clasice care apreciază structura epistolară și personajele feminine complexe, care refuză să se conformeze normelor sociale ale secolului al XVIII-lea.

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Jane Austen (1775–1817) a fost o romancieră engleză a cărei operă a definit tranziția către realismul literar al secolului al XIX-lea. Cunoscută pentru ironia sa mușcătoare și comentariul social acut, Austen a explorat dependența femeilor de căsătorie pentru securitate economică. Deși în timpul vieții a publicat anonim titluri precum Sense and Sensibility și Pride and Prejudice, succesul său major a venit postum. Lady Susan face parte din scrierile sale timpurii, rămase în manuscris și publicate mult după moartea sa, oferind o privire rară asupra experimentelor sale stilistice și a capacității de a crea personaje de o moralitate ambiguă.

Descriere scurtă

Though Lady Susan is considered part of Jane Austen's "juvenilia," having been written ca. 1805, it was not published till well after Jane Austen's death and is still not counted among her "six novels." In fact, this seventh novel, though not as thoughtful or thought-provoking as the "famous six," is one of her wittiest and most spirited. Written in epistolary style, it is the story of Lady Susan, a beautiful, recent widow with no conscience, a woman who is determined to do exactly what she wants to do, to charm and/or seduce any man who appeals to her, and to secure a proper marriage for her teenage daughter, whom she considers both unintelligent and lacking in charm. Lady Susan has no redeeming qualities, other than her single-mindedness, and her problems, entirely self-imposed, show the extremes to which an unprincipled woman will go to ensure her own pleasure and ultimately a more secure, comfortable life. As Lady Susan manipulates men, women, and even her young nieces and nephews, her venality knows no bounds, and when she determines that her daughter Frederica WILL marry Sir James, a man who utterly repulses her, Lady Susan's love of power and her willingness to create whatever "truth" best suits her purpose become obvious. Austen must have had fun writing this novel which "stars" a character who to appears to be her own opposite. While this novel is not a pure "farce," it is closer to that than anything else Austen ever wrote. Containing humor, the satiric depiction of an aristocratic woman of monstrous egotism, her romantic dalliances and comeuppances, and her ability to land on her feet, no matter what obstacles are thrown in her path, the novel is a light comedy in which the manners and morals of the period are shown in sharp relief--Lady Susan vs. Catherine Vernon, her sensible sister-in-law; the free-wheeling Lady Susan and those who love the city vs. the moral grounding of those who live in the country; the sexual power of an unprincipled woman vs. the "proper ladies" who, along with their husbands, become her victims. While this novel is not as "finished" as her more famous novels, it shows Austen as a more playful novelist than in her other novels, an author who is obviously having fun introducing a wild card like Lady Susan into polite society to show how ill-equipped men are to deal with someone so clever.

Notă biografică

Jane Austen is arguably one of the best English novelists of our time, known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism, humor, and social commentary, have long earned her acclaim among critics, scholars, and popular audiences alike. With the publication of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two other novels, Northbnger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818.Her six full-length novels have rarely been out of print, although they were published anonymously and brought her moderate success and little fame during her lifetime. A significant transition in her posthumous reputation occurred in 1833, when her novels were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series, illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering, and sold as a set. They gradually gained wider acclaim and popular readership. In 1869, fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced a compelling version of her writing career and supposedly uneventful life to an eager audience.Austen began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript, the short epistolary novel Lady Susan, and another unfinished novel, The Watsons. These previous unpublished works are all here for your enjoyment. This edition also includes all of her private letters to really get into the psyche of Jane Austen and delve deeper into her personal life and what made the most prolific female writer of all time.

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Lady Susan (1871) is a novel by English author Jane Austen. Originally written in 1794--making it one of Austen's earliest complete works--Lady Susan was published posthumously and has since been of interest to readers and scholars alike. It is notable for its epistolary form, a popular style of prose fiction writing in the late-eighteenth century in which the narrative is told in the form of letters between characters embedded in the story itself. The epistolary novel mimics letter writing in order to distance the author from their work, as well as to simulate the secrecy and intimacy of private communication for its reader.

Austen's novel, narrated by letters between its cast of characters, follows Lady Johnson's visit to Churchill, the country estate of her brother- and sister-in-law Charles and Catherine Vernon. At Churchill, Lady Susan seduces and denies Catherine's brother Reginald De Courcy, a handsome but gullible man. When Frederica, Lady Susan's teenage daughter, arrives, she begins to fall in love with Reginald. This disrupts not just her mother's control of the young man, but her plan for Frederica to marry Sir James Martin, a wealthy suitor who soon arrives at Churchill himself. As the plot unfolds, and as the bonds of familial and romantic affection are tested, a drama of chaos and comedy ensues which bears the hallmark clarity of Austen's moral vision.

Lady Susan is an early masterpiece from renowned novelist Jane Austen, a text which not only clears the path for her more famous novels to come, but carves a space for itself in a truly legendary body of work.

With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Jane Austen's Lady Susan is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.