The Great Romantic: Cricket and the golden age of Neville Cardus - Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Autor Duncan Hamiltonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iul 2020
Imaginați-vă un cronicar sportiv care descrie o lovitură de bâtă ca fiind o compoziție muzicală ce emană frumusețe, ignorând secile statistici pentru a capta spiritul pur al momentului. În The Great Romantic, remarcăm portretul fascinant al lui Neville Cardus, omul care a inventat practic jurnalismul sportiv modern, transformând relatarea unui meci de cricket într-o formă de artă literară. Duncan Hamilton ne introduce în culisele unei epoci de aur, unde Cardus, deși aproape autodidact și provenind dintr-un mediu social dificil, a reușit să devină „laureatul” acestui sport, fiind venerat de figuri precum P.G. Wodehouse sau Don Bradman.
Notăm cu interes dualitatea profundă a personajului: pe de o parte, stilistul rafinat care scria despre cricket și muzică clasică la cel mai înalt nivel, iar pe de altă parte, omul care ascundea detalii despre familia sa și care, uneori, relata cu brio meciuri la care nici măcar nu asistase. Cine a citit antologiile A Cardus for All Seasons sau Cardus in the Covers va aprecia aici modul în care Duncan Hamilton reușește să deconstruiască mitul, aducând la lumină faptele pe care Cardus însuși le-a omis în autobiografiile sale. Dacă în Immortal autorul analiza geniul și declinul lui George Best, aici el explorează o altfel de nemurire — cea a cuvântului scris care supraviețuiește evenimentului sportiv.
Stilul lui Hamilton este elocvent și empatic, ridicându-se la înălțimea subiectului său. Această biografie nu este doar despre sport, ci despre puterea imaginației de a transcende barierele de clasă și limitările realității imediate, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care pasiunea pentru estetică poate defini o carieră întreagă.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1473661854
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Hodder & Stoughton
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor pasionat de istoria culturii britanice și de arta biografiei bine documentate. Dincolo de fenomenul sportiv, The Great Romantic oferă o lecție despre ascensiunea socială și despre cum stilul personal poate schimba o întreagă industrie. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a legăturii dintre sport și literatură, descoperind viața plină de enigme a unui critic care a trăit între două lumi: terenul de joc și sala de concert.
Descriere
Duncan Hamilton is already a multiple award-winning sports writer, but it is hard to imagine he will write a better book than this superb, elegiac portrait of the sociable, feted, but ultimately unknowable, man who virtually invented modern sports writing...This is writing every bit the equal of Cardus himself. - Daily Mail
'Hamilton is a worthy biographer... as much sublime writing comes from his keyboard as from Cardus's pen.' The Times
'With its verve, insight and generosity of sympathy, this is by some way the best full-length life of a cricket writer, perhaps even of any sports writer.' Guardian
Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words.
In The Great Romantic, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord's'- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a penchant for literary and musical allusions.
Among those who venerated Cardus were PG Wodehouse, John Arlott, Harold Pinter, JB Priestley and Don Bradman. However, behind the rhapsody in blue skies, green grass and colourful characters, this richly evocative biography finds that Cardus' mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father and he received negligible education. Infatuations with younger women ran parallel to a decidedly unromantic marriage. And, astonishingly, the supreme stylist's aversion to factual accuracy led to his reporting on matches he never attended.
Yet Cardus also belied his impoverished origins to prosper in a second class-conscious profession, becoming a music critic of international renown. The Great Romantic uncovers the dark enigma within a golden age.
Recenzii
Duncan Hamilton has written some of the best books about sport in recent years. Twice he has won the William Hill for the sports book of the year... He [Cardus] interpreted cricket through a filter of his own, an imagination of uncommon sensitivity, and all who came after are in his debt. All lovers of cricket will enjoy this book. You could say that Hamilton has done it again.
Hamilton is a worthy biographer. Ten years after his fine biography of Harold Larwood, the maligned England fast bowler, this is just as good, and as much sublime writing comes from his keyboard as from Cardus's pen.
The Great Romantic has a strong personal flavour, especially in its tour de force of a prologue...the interest seldom falters. With its verve, insight and generosity of sympathy, this is by some way the best full-length life of a cricket writer, perhaps even of any sports writer.
This is not just stand-out sports writing but a stand-out study: one writer acknowledging another.
Praise for Going to the Match
Hamilton is steeped in the history and traditions of football and communicates his knowledge lightly and with wit and intelligence. Above all, though, this is a fan's-eye view that brilliantly expresses the passion that millions like him, in pursuit of happiness and belonging, feel for the beautiful game. Simply magnificent.
In Duncan Hamilton, one of the most accomplished of current sports writers, Cardus has found a worthy biographer who has ferreted out hidden details of his life, including those that Cardus himself skated over in his two volumes of autobiography. The Great Romantic is beautifully written, and Cardus would surely have approved of it.