Short Stories: Minerva
Autor W. Somerset Maughamen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 1994
Atmosfera acestor povestiri ne trimite cu gândul la de Maupassant Stories de Guy de Maupassant, deși realismul clinic și ironia fină a lui W. Somerset Maugham marchează o voce proprie, mai puțin preocupată de satiră și mai mult de complexitatea morală a individului în exil. În acest volum consistent de peste 600 de pagini, regăsim măiestria unui autor care a transformat observația socială într-o formă de artă. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care spațiile exotice — de la Samoa la Malaya — nu sunt simple decoruri, ci devin catalizatori pentru prăbușirea personajelor sub greutatea propriilor pasiuni sau defecte. În texte precum 'Rain' sau 'The Letter', reținem o economie a mijloacelor narative care amintește de structura riguroasă din Collected Short Stories. Putem afirma că forța lui Maugham rezidă în capacitatea de a evoca un sentiment acut al locului și al timpului, fără a recurge la înflorituri inutile. Ritmul este așezat, oferind cititorului răgazul necesar pentru a contempla drama umană ce se desfășoară în spatele conveniențelor coloniale. Spre deosebire de dinamismul prezent în The Great Novels and Short Stories of Somerset Maugham, acest volum se concentrează strict pe formatul scurt, demonstrând de ce autorul este considerat un maestru al genului.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0749397578
Pagini: 613
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Random House
Seriile Minerva, Vintage Classics
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
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Recomandăm acest volum cititorilor care apreciază proza clasică, de o precizie chirurgicală, și celor fascinați de literatura de călătorie transformată în analiză psihologică. Veți descoperi o explorare onestă a slăbiciunilor umane, scrisă într-o engleză impecabilă. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum spațiul geografic modelează destinul și moralitatea în literatura secolului XX.
Notă biografică
William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, was born in 1874, and lived in Paris until he was ten. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. He spent some time at St. Thomas' Hospital with a view to practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. His position as a successful playwright was being consolidated at the same time. His first play, A Man of Honour, was followed by a series of successes just before and after World War I, and his career in the theatre did not end until 1933 with Sheppey.
His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. His other works include travel books such as On a Chinese Screen, and Don Fernando, essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook.
In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965.
Descriere scurtă
A missionary, a murderer, an artist and an exile: Maugham turns human weakness into unforgettable short fiction.
Somerset Maugham is the acknowledged master of the short story, and his full range is represented in this collection.
In acclaimed stories such as 'Rain', 'The Letter', 'The Vessel of Wrath' and 'The Alien Corn', Maugham illustrates his wry perception of human weakness and his genius for evoking compelling drama from an acute sense of time and place.
Set chiefly in the South Pacific, Southeast Asia and among British expatriate and colonial communities, these classic short stories explore moral strain, social hypocrisy, exile, failed idealism and desire. Again and again, Maugham strips away the public version of events to reveal motives that are weaker, crueller and more human than society admits.
What gives these stories their force is Maugham's restraint. He rarely presses for judgement, but lets gossip, memory and circumstance do their work, leaving his characters exposed in ways that feel sharp, ironic and deeply human.