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Pygmalion de George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion

Autor George Bernard Shaw
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 apr 2022

Recomandăm această ediție a piesei Pygmalion cititorilor pasionați de fineturi lingvistice și critică socială, celor care savurează dialogul ascuțit și personajele care refuză să fie simple piese într-un experiment. Considerăm că forța acestui text nu rezidă doar în transformarea spectaculoasă a Elizei Doolittle, ci în modul în care George Bernard Shaw demonstrează că limbajul este, în fond, o barieră de clasă aproape insurmontabilă.

Imaginați-vă tensiunea socială și rigurozitatea lingvistică din Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, mutată într-un decor de realism didactic, unde muzica este înlocuită de observația tăioasă asupra ipocriziei britanice. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit prefața autorului, care dezvăluie rădăcinile reale ale personajului Henry Higgins în figura foneticianului Henry Sweet. Shaw nu scrie doar o comedie de moravuri, ci un manifest despre cum modul de a vorbi îi condamnă pe oameni la disprețul semenilor lor.

Spre deosebire de alte lucrări ale sale, precum Major Barbara, unde dezbaterea ideologică vizează religia și capitalismul, în Pygmalion autorul se concentrează pe identitate și autodeterminare. Este o lucrare definitorie pentru stilul „shavian”, situându-se alături de Arms and the Man prin modul în care satirizează convențiile romantice. Ritmul este alert, susținut de replici care funcționează ca niște dueluri intelectuale, iar structura sa, deși clasică, rămâne surprinzător de modernă prin refuzul unui final convențional.

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ISBN-13: 9789357271554
ISBN-10: 9357271554
Pagini: 98
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP

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Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra modului în care educația și limbajul ne modelează locul în societate. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile celebrei adaptări „My Fair Lady”, dar și pentru cei care apreciază umorul fin și critica socială care rămâne relevantă și după un secol de la publicare.

Despre autor

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) a fost un dramaturg irlandez, critic și activist politic, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în 1925. Stabilit la Londra, Shaw a devenit o figură centrală a teatrului occidental, scriind peste șaizeci de piese. Influențat de Ibsen, a introdus un nou realism în dramaturgia de limbă engleză, folosind scena ca platformă pentru ideile sale despre socialism, eugenie și reforma alfabetului. Printre cele mai cunoscute lucrări ale sale se numără Man and Superman și Saint Joan, Shaw fiind recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa unică de a îmbina satira contemporană cu alegoria istorică.

Descriere scurtă

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to English-men. The reformer England needs today is an energetic phonetic enthusiast: that is why I have made such a one the hero of a popular play. There have been heroes of that kind crying in the wilderness for many years past. When I became interested in the subject towards the end of the eighteen-seventies, Melville Bell was dead; but Alexander J. Ellis was still a living patriarch, with an impressive head always covered by a velvet skull cap, for which he would apologize to public meetings in a very courtly manner. He and Tito Pagliardini, another phonetic veteran, were men whom it was impossible to dislike. Henry Sweet, then a young man, lacked their sweetness of character: he was about as conciliatory to conventional mortals as Ibsen or Samuel Butler. His great ability as a phonetician (he was, I think, the best of them all at his job) would have entitled him to high official recognition, and perhaps enabled him to popularize his subject, but for his Satanic contempt for all academic dignitaries and persons in general who thought more of Greek than of phonetics. Once, in the days when the Imperial Institute rose in South Kensington, and Joseph Chamberlain was booming the Empire, I induced the editor of a leading monthly review to commission an article from Sweet on the imperial importance of his subject. When it arrived, it contained nothing but a savagely derisive attack on a professor of language and literature whose chair Sweet regarded as proper to a phonetic expert only. The article, being libelous, had to be returned as impossible; and I had to renounce my dream of dragging its author into the limelight. When I met him afterwards, for the first time for many years, I found to my astonishment that he, who had been a quite tolerably presentable young man, had actually managed by sheer scorn to alter his personal appearance until he had become a sort of walking repudiation of Oxford and all its traditions. It must have been largely in his own despite that he was squeezed into something called a Readership of phonetics there. The future of phonetics rests probably with his pupils, who all swore by him; but nothing could bring the man himself into any sort of compliance with the university, to which he nevertheless clung by divine right in an intensely Oxonian way. I daresay his papers, if he has left any, include some satires that may be published without too destructive results fifty years hence. He was, I believe, not in the least an ill-natured man: very much the opposite, I should say; but he would not suffer fools gladly.

Notă biografică

George Bernard Shaw, born in Dublin in 1856, was essentially shy, yet created the persona of G.B.S., the showman, controversialist, satirist, critic, pundit, wit, intellectual buffoon and dramatist. Commentators brought a new adjective into the English language: Shavian, a term used to embody all his brilliant qualities.

After his arrival in London in 1876 he became an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He wrote on many social aspects of the day: on Commonsense about the War (1914), How to Settle the Irish Question (1917), and The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928). He undertook his own education at the British Museum and consequently became keenly interested in cultural subjects. Thus his prolific output included music, art and theatre reviews which were collected into several volumes: Music In London 1890-1894 (3 vols., 1931); Pen Portraits and Reviews (1931); and Our Theatres in the Nineties (3 vols., 1931). He wrote five novels and some shorter fiction including The Black Girl in Search of God and some Lesser Tales and Cashel Byron's Profession.

He conducted a strong attack on the London theatre and was closely associated with the intellectual revival of British theatre. His many plays fall into several categories: 'Plays Pleasant'; 'Plays Unpleasant'; comedies, chronicle-plays, 'metabiological Pentateuch' (Back to Methuselah, a series of plays) and 'political extravaganzas'. Shaw died in 1950.

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George Bernard Shaw's witty comedy of manners, Pygmalion includes an introduction by Nicholas Grene in Penguin Classics.
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. Adapted into the Oscar-winning musical film My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison in 1964, Pygmalion
This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Shaw's preface, as well as his 'sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventially romantic ending.
Although essentially shy, Dublin-born George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) created the persona of GBS, the showman, satirist, conversationalist, critic, pundit, wit, intellectual buffoon and dramatist. Commentators brought a new adjective into English: 'Shavian', a term used to embody all his brilliant qualities. Deeply concerned by what he saw as the exploitation of the working class, Shaw was an active Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. He remains the only person ever to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar.
If you enjoyed Pygmalion, you might like Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, also available in Penguin Classics.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, the 20th-century story pokes fun at the antiquated British class system.
In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet that he can transform an awkward cockney flower seller into a refined young lady simply by polishing her manners and changing the way she speaks. In the process of convincing society that his creation is a mysterious royal figure, the Professor also falls in love with his elegant handiwork.
The irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, together with Shaw's brilliant dialogue and splendid skills as a playwright, have made Pygmalion one of the most popular comedies in the English language. A staple of college drama courses, it is still widely performed.