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The Pilgrim's Progress de John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress

Autor John Bunyan Editat de Cynthia Wall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2008

Descoperim în The Pilgrim's Progress o lectură stratificată, a cărei cadență amintește de pasul hotărât, dar adesea îngreunat, al unui drumeț pe un teren necunoscut. Ritmul nu este unul al vitezei, ci al reflecției profunde; este o narațiune care se cere parcursă cu răbdare, lăsând fiecare simbol și fiecare întâlnire a protagonistului Christian să rezoneze cu propriile noastre căutări interioare. Scrisă parțial în izolarea unei celule de închisoare, opera lui John Bunyan transcende simpla literatură de secol XVII, devenind o hartă universală a spiritului uman.

Apreciem modul în care Bunyan transformă concepte abstracte — disperarea, speranța, ignoranța — în personaje vii, cu care cititorul interacționează direct. Pe același raft cu Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English de James Thomas, această ediție de la Collins Classics se distinge prin păstrarea textului original, oferind acea patină de autenticitate și forță lingvistică pe care adaptările moderne o simplifică adesea. Considerăm că forța cărții rezidă tocmai în această asprime a limbajului arhaic, care conferă greutate fiecărei încercări prin care trece pelerinul.

În contextul operei sale, The Pilgrim's Progress reprezintă vârful de lance al unei bibliografii vaste, fiind strâns legată de The Pilgrim's Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. Dacă lucrarea autobiografică Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ne oferă perspectiva intimă a luptei interioare a lui John Bunyan, pelerinajul lui Christian este transpunerea acestor trăiri într-o mitologie creștină universală. Este o operă fundamentală care a modelat imaginația literară occidentală, oferind nume și situații care au devenit puncte de referință în cultura universală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780393927719
ISBN-10: 0393927717
Pagini: 520
Dimensiuni: 140 x 231 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:Critică
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care caută o lectură contemplativă, cu rădăcini istorice și spirituale adânci. Cititorul va câștiga nu doar acces la o piesă esențială a literaturii engleze, ci și o perspectivă fascinantă asupra rezilienței umane în fața adversității. Este un volum ideal pentru cei care apreciază alegoria clasică și doresc să exploreze textul original care a influențat generații de scriitori, de la C.S. Lewis la Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Despre autor

John Bunyan (1628–1688) a fost un scriitor și predicator puritan englez, a cărui viață a fost marcată de o profundă transformare spirituală și de o rezistență dârză în fața opresiunii religioase. De meserie cârpaci, Bunyan a servit în armata parlamentară în timpul Războiului Civil Englez înainte de a se dedica predicării nonconformiste. A petrecut doisprezece ani în închisoarea din Bedford pentru refuzul de a renunța la credința sa, perioadă în care a scris cele mai importante lucrări ale sale, inclusiv autobiografia spirituală Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. Moștenirea sa literară este definită de un stil simplu, dar vizionar, care a făcut din scrierile sale un model de claritate și forță narativă.

Descriere

Briefly imprisoned for preaching without a license, he is believed to have begun writing the most famous Christian allegory, The Pilgrim's Progress, while in jail. The Pilgrim's Progress was published in 1678 (Part I) and 1684 (Part II). Edited and annotated with the student reader in mind, this Norton Critical Edition is the indispensable guide to the language, allusions, and historical references of this challenging text.

An unusually rich "Contexts" section is thematically organized in four sections: "Biographical," "Geographical and Visual," "Theological and Literary," and "Abridgements and Adaptation," and includes eleven essential visuals. "Criticism" collects twenty major essays spanning two hundred years of thinking and writing about The Pilgrim's Progress, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, George Bernard Shaw, F. R.

Leavis, Dorothy Van Ghent, J. Paul Hunter, Stanley Fish, Barbara A. Johnson, and Cynthia Wall, among others.

Notă biografică

JOHN BUNYAN (1628-88) was born in Elstow, a village near Bedford. He went to school in the village and became a travelling brazier or tinker, like his father. In 1644 he joined the Parliamentary army, and served in the garrison of Newport Pagnell, a Bedfordshire town, until 1646. He married in 1649 and had four children, though the name of his first wife is unknown. As part of her dowry she brought two popular books of devotion; and these, along with a series of experiences, triggered a complex conversion experience, not fully resolved until 1653, when Bunyan joined a separatist congregation in Bedford. Soon Bunyan began preaching and engagin in controversy with other reiligous groups. He wrote his first book, Some Gospel Truths Opened in 1656. Soon after the Restoration he was arrested for unlicensed preaching in the village of Lower Samsell and, because he refused to stop peraching, remain in prison in Bedford for twelve years. His account of his trial was published posthumously in 1765.

He was imprisoned again for about six months in 1676. He continued to write, and to preach in Bedfordshire and London. In 1678 he published the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress. It became am immediate bestseller, running through twelve ditions and being translated into Dutch, French and Welsh during Bunyan's lifetime; since then it has been traslated into more than two hundred languages. Its counterpart, The Life and Death of Mr Badman (1682) is epic in cope. The second part of The Pilgrim's Progress came out in 1684, partly in response to a number of imitations and spurious sequels. A Book for Boys and Girls, one of the earliest examples of literature for children, was published in 1686.

Bunyan died in 1688 for a fever contracted while riding from Reading to London to try to effect a reconciliation between a father and son. He left a number of works in manuscript, many of them published by Chalres Doe in his folio of 1692, which also contained the first (brief) biography of Bunyan.


ROGER POOLEY teaches at Keele University. His Cambridge Ph.D. thesis on Bunyan was partly supervised by the late Roger Sharrock, the editor of the previous Penguin Classics Pilgrim's Progress. He is the author of English Prose of the Seventeenth Century (1993) and a number of shorter pieces on Bunyan and other seventeenth-century figures. He has co-edited The Lord of the Journey; A Reader in Christina Spirituality and The Discerning Reader: Literature and Theory in Christian Perspecitve. He is an active member of the International John Bunyan Society.

Recenzii

"This stunningly executed allegory has furnished the Christian imagination with names and situations that have now infiltrated most of our literature. Not often does something so popular manage also to be accurate."--Eugene Peterson, Take and Read

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Often rated as important as the Bible as a Christian document, this famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the Celestial City.
Along a road filled with monsters and spiritual terrors, Christian confronts such emblematic characters as Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, Talkative, Ignorance, and the demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. But he is also joined by Hopeful and Faithful.
An enormously influential 17th-century classic, universally known for its simplicity, vigor, and beauty of language, The Pilgrim's Progress remains one of the most widely read books in the English language.