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The Uncommercial Traveller de Charles Dickens

The Uncommercial Traveller

Autor Charles Dickens
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2018

Observăm în The Uncommercial Traveller o fațetă esențială a autorității literare a lui Charles Dickens: aceea de jurnalist de investigație și fin observator al realității sociale. Autorul, recunoscut drept cel mai important romancier al epocii victoriene, fundamentează această lucrare pe o cercetare riguroasă de teren, adoptând persona unui rătăcitor care explorează nu ca turist, ci ca reporter. Această ediție de la OUP OXFORD, îngrijită de Daniel Tyler, ne oferă acces la o serie de schițe literare și rememorări ce acoperă ultima decadă a activității sale, oferind o perspectivă matură asupra societății din secolul al XIX-lea.

Din punct de vedere al conținutului, volumul acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Sketches by Boz, însă cu o abordare mult mai profundă și reflexivă. Dacă în prima sa lucrare Dickens surprindea efervescența Londrei anilor 1830, în The Uncommercial Traveller vedem un scriitor consacrat care analizează critic transformările din porturile galeză, șantierele navale din Chatham sau străzile Franței. Stilul este precis, îmbinând satira cu o sensibilitate socială acută, evitând totodată structura narativă rigidă a marilor sale romane precum Great Expectations sau A Tale of Two Cities. Această ediție din seria Oxford World's Classics include opt ilustrații alb-negru care completează atmosfera reportajelor, oferind cititorului o experiență vizuală autentică a locurilor descrise. Apreciem în mod deosebit modul în care Daniel Tyler reușește să contextualizeze aceste articole sporadic publicate, transformându-le dintr-o serie de foiletoane într-o cronică socială coerentă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780649727056
ISBN-10: 0649727053
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria socială victoriană și de evoluția jurnalismului literar. Prin The Uncommercial Traveller, veți descoperi un Charles Dickens dincolo de ficțiune, un observator direct care transformă reportajul în artă. Este o oportunitate rară de a vedea cum experiența sa de reporter a alimentat universul marilor sale romane, oferind în același timp o lectură captivantă despre viața reală a secolului al XIX-lea.

Despre autor

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) a fost cel mai influent scriitor britanic al epocii victoriene, a cărui carieră a început în jurnalism. Marcat de experiența traumatică a muncii într-o fabrică de cremă de ghete la vârsta de 12 ani, în timp ce tatăl său era închis pentru datorii, Dickens a devenit un apărător fervent al reformelor sociale. Succesul său a explodat odată cu publicarea foiletoanelor, format care a revoluționat distribuția literară. Pe lângă cele 15 romane celebre, el a editat jurnale săptămânale timp de 20 de ani, scriind sute de articole de non-ficțiune, printre care și cele incluse în The Uncommercial Traveller.

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?'At the height of his career, around the time he was working on Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens wrote a series of sketches, mostly set in London, which he collected as The Uncommercial Traveller. In the persona of 'the Uncommercial', Dickens wanders the city streets and brings London, its inhabitants, commerce and entertainment vividly to life. Sometimes autobiographical, as childhood experiences are interwoven with adult memories, the sketches include visits to the Paris Morgue, the Liverpool docks, a workhouse, a school for poor children, and the theatre. They also describe the perils of travel, including seasickness, shipwreck, the coming of the railways, and the wretchedness of dining in English hotels and restaurants. The work is quintessential Dickens, with each piece showcasing his imaginative writing style, his keen observational powers, and his characteristic wit. In this edition Daniel Tyler explores Dickens's fascination with the city and the book's connections with concerns evident in his fiction: social injustice, human mortality, a fascination with death and the passing of time. Often funny, sometimes indignant, always exuberant, The Uncommercial Traveller is a revelatory encounter with Dickens, and the Victorian city he knew so well.

Notă biografică

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many 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.

Cuprins

  • Introduction

  • Note on the Text

  • Select Bibliography

  • A Chronology of Charles Dickens

  • THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER

  • Map: Dickens;s London

  • Appendix: Textual Variants

  • Explanatory Notes

Descriere scurtă

Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens' upbringing was a mixture of happy times and sad: when he recalled his father being sent to debtor's prison in his memoirs, his tears actually left marks on the page. Nevertheless, Dickens was obsessed with reading, making him a natural journalist by the age of 20, when he began a career in journalism. Along the way, he also began writing his own short stories and materials, often serializing them in monthly installments in publications, a popular method of publishing in the 19th century. Unlike most writers, Dickens would not write an entire story before it began its serialization, allowing him to work on the fly and leave plot lines up in the air with each opportunity. By the time he died at the relatively young age of 58 from a stroke, he was already Europe's most famous writer. His obituary noted that Dickens was a "sympathizer with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed." Dickens was interred in Westminster Abbey, a rare honor bestowed only among the greatest and most accomplished Britons. Many of Dickens' novels were written with the concept of social reform in mind, and Dickens' work was often praised for its realism, comic genius and unique personalities. At the same time, however, Dickens' ability as a writer was nearly unrivaled, with his ability to write in prose unquestioned and unmatched.

Recenzii

... .there is plenty here and fans will enjoy spotting his nascent characters and books in these sketches.
Tyler's introduction is substantial, thorough and stimulating.
beautiful volume
fascinating