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Our Mutual Friend de Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend

Autor Charles Dickens
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2019

În „Our Mutual Friend”, descoperim o confruntare mută, dar violentă, între forțele regeneratoare ale apei și mizeria sufocantă a lăcomiei umane. Tensiunea centrală se naște la granița dintre supraviețuirea brutală și aspirația spre respectabilitate, totul sub privirea rece a unei Londre ce pare construită din noroi și praf. Remarcăm cum Charles Dickens, ajuns la apogeul măiestriei sale, transformă Tamisa dintr-un simplu decor într-un personaj omniscient, un depozitar al secretelor și al morții, unde Gaffer Hexam și fiica sa, Lizzie, pescuiesc nu pești, ci destine frânte. Stilul are ceva din proza densă și panoramică din Little Dorrit, fără să fie o imitație — aici, satira este mai ascuțită, iar atmosfera mai sumbră, reflectând o maturitate artistică ce nu se mai mulțumește cu soluții facile. Dacă în A Tale of Two Cities autorul explora cataclismul istoric, în acest ultim roman finalizat el se apleacă asupra cataclismului moral provocat de „bani, bani, bani”. Structura este una de o complexitate remarcabilă, împletind misterul identității lui John Harmon cu destinele unor personaje memorabile precum Bella Wilfer. Ritmul este deliberat, oferind cititorului timp să observe detaliile sordide ale mormanelor de gunoi care, paradoxal, constituie sursa bogăției în această societate victoriană târzie. Este o operă care încheie parcursul literar al lui Charles Dickens nu printr-o concluzie liniștitoare, ci printr-o interogație profundă asupra valorii umane într-o lume dominată de posesiuni.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9788026892236
ISBN-10: 8026892232
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.8 kg
Editura: e-artnow

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lucrare celor care doresc să exploreze latura cea mai sofisticată și întunecată a geniului dickensian. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra Londrei victoriene, dincolo de clișeele de epocă, descoperind un roman despre transformare și identitate. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii literaturii clasice care apreciază criticile sociale subtile și personajele cu o psihologie stratificată.

Despre autor

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) este recunoscut drept cel mai important romancier al epocii victoriene și un critic social neobosit. Experiența sa timpurie de lucru într-o fabrică de cremă de ghete, în timp ce tatăl său era închis pentru datorii, i-a marcat profund opera, insuflându-i o empatie rară pentru clasele defavorizate. Autor a 15 romane, printre care David Copperfield și Great Expectations, Dickens a revoluționat literatura prin publicarea în foileton și prin capacitatea sa de a crea personaje iconice care au rămas vii în conștiința universală. „Our Mutual Friend” reprezintă testamentul său literar finalizat, o sinteză a geniului său satiric.

Descriere scurtă

In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in. The figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged grizzled hair and a sun-browned face, and a dark girl of nineteen or twenty, sufficiently like him to be recognizable as his daughter. The girl rowed, pulling a pair of sculls very easily; the man, with the rudder-lines slack in his hands, and his hands loose in his waistband, kept an eager look out. He had no net, hook, or line, and he could not be a fisherman; his boat had no cushion for a sitter, no paint, no inscription, no appliance beyond a rusty boathook and a coil of rope, and he could not be a waterman; his boat was too crazy and too small to take in cargo for delivery, and he could not be a lighterman or river-carrier; there was no clue to what he looked for, but he looked for something, with a most intent and searching gaze. The tide, which had turned an hour before, was running down, and his eyes watched every little race and eddy in its broad sweep, as the boat made slight head-way against it, or drove stern foremost before it, according as he directed his daughter by a movement of his head. She watched his face as earnestly as he watched the river. But, in the intensity of her look there was a touch of dread or horror. Allied to the bottom of the river rather than the surface, by reason of the slime and ooze with which it was covered, and its sodden state, this boat and the two figures in it obviously were doing something that they often did, and were seeking what they often sought. Half savage as the man showed, with no covering on his matted head, with his brown arms bare to between the elbow and the shoulder, with the loose knot of a looser kerchief lying low on his bare breast in a wilderness of beard and whisker, with such dress as he wore seeming to be made out of the mud that begrimed his boat, still there was a business-like usage in his steady gaze. So with every lithe action of the girl, with every turn of her wrist, perhaps most of all with her look of dread or horror; they were things of usage. 'Keep her out, Lizzie. Tide runs strong here. Keep her well afore the sweep of it.' Trusting to the girl's skill and making no use of the rudder, he eyed the coming tide with an absorbed attention. So the girl eyed him. But, it happened now, that a slant of light from the setting sun glanced into the bottom of the boat, and, touching a rotten stain there which bore some resemblance to the outline of a muffled human form, coloured it as though with diluted blood. This caught the girl's eye, and she shivered. 'What ails you?' said the man, immediately aware of it, though so intent on the advancing waters; 'I see nothing afloat.' The red light was gone, the shudder was gone, and his gaze, which had come back to the boat for a moment, travelled away again. Wheresoever the strong tide met with an impediment, his gaze paused for an instant. At every mooring-chain and rope, at every stationery boat or barge that split the current into a broad-arrowhead, at the offsets from the piers of Southwark Bridge, at the paddles of the river steamboats as they beat the filthy water, at the floating logs of timber lashed together lying off certain wharves, his shining eyes darted a hungry look. After a darkening hour or so, suddenly the rudder-lines tightened in his hold, and he steered hard towards the Surrey shore. Always watching his face, the girl instantly answered to the action in her sculling; presently the boat swung round, quivered as from a sudden jerk, and the upper half of the man was stretched out over the stern.

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Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boffin, who is also Bella's guardian.Disguise and concealment play an important role in the novel and individual identity is examined within the wider setting of London life: in the 1860s the city was aflame with spiralling financial speculation while thousands of homeless scratched a living from the detritus of the more fortunate-indeed John Harmon's father has amassed his wealth by recycling waste.This edition includes extensive explanatory notes and significant manuscript variants. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Notă biografică

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction.

Recenzii

"Our Mutual Friend made me want to be a writer."
--Zoe Heller, Guardian

"Dickens wasn't just telling a story, but drawing a panoramic picture of his times, full of detail about the way the Victorians lived, loved and thought. Our Mutual Friend is superbly constructed -- part social satire, part murder mystery, part love story. It is crowded with memorable characters: the aspirational Veneerings, the playboy lawyer Eugene Wrayburn, and the heroines: giddy-minded Bella Wilfur and saintly Lizzy Hexam."
--Independent

"Perhaps his greatest work. The great novel of London: dark, wise, unsentimental."
--William Boyd, Newsweek

"Our Mutual Friend made me want to be a writer" -- Zoe Heller Guardian "Dickens wasn't just telling a story, but drawing a panoramic picture of his times, full of detail about the way the Victorians lived, loved and thought. Our Mutual Friend is superbly constructed - part social satire, part murder mystery, part love story. It is crowded with memorable characters: the aspirational Veneerings, the playboy lawyer Eugene Wrayburn, and the heroines: giddy-minded Bella Wilfur and saintly Lizzy Hexam" Independent "Our Mutual Friend disturbs us to the root of our being...terribly great" -- John Sutherland "Perhaps his greatest work. The great novel of London: dark, wise, unsentimental" -- William Boyd Newsweek "Charles Dickens is the greatest novelist in the English language" -- Peter Ackroyd