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The Way We Live Now de Anthony Trollope

The Way We Live Now

Autor Anthony Trollope
en Limba Engleză Paperback

Găsim în această carte o structură narativă panoramică, un tablou social vast care se ramifică dinspre centrul financiar al Londrei către saloanele aristocrației și dilemele intime ale unor personaje prinse în vârtejul schimbării. The Way We Live Now nu este doar un roman, ci o radiografie a unei epoci marcate de ascensiunea speculei și de erodarea valorilor tradiționale. Putem afirma că forța operei rezidă în capacitatea lui Anthony Trollope de a orchestra zeci de destine sub umbra impunătoare a lui Augustus Melmotte, un personaj a cărui avere fabuloasă și origine incertă oglindesc nesiguranța întregii societăți victoriene târzii. Stilul are ceva din precizia de observator a lui Dinah Birch, fără să fie o imitație — acolo unde studiile critice analizează mecanismele literare, Trollope le pune în mișcare printr-o proză densă, meditativă și profund morală. Față de idilismul regăsit în The Warden sau conflictele de rang din Doctor Thorne, acest roman marchează o trecere către o viziune mai sumbră și mai critică asupra condiției umane. Ritmul este unul așezat, specific marii literaturi clasice, permițând cititorului să pătrundă în mecanismele psihologice ale personajelor, cum este cazul lui Paul Montague, a cărui pendulare între onoare și dorință oferă o contrapondere umană cinismului politic. Merită menționat că, deși scrisă în limba engleză în 1875, satira lui Trollope rămâne surprinzător de actuală prin modul în care descrie mirajul îmbogățirii rapide.

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ISBN-13: 9781517505202
ISBN-10: 1517505208
Pagini: 548
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Recomandăm această lectură celor care apreciază proza clasică de mare anvergură. Veți descoperi o critică socială tăioasă, dar elegantă, care explorează cum lăcomia și ambiția pot reconfigura întreaga structură a unei societăți. Este un câștig pentru orice cititor care dorește să înțeleagă complexitatea morală a epocii victoriene dincolo de clișeele romantice, oferind o perspectivă lucidă asupra integrității într-o lume dominată de aparențe.

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Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) a fost unul dintre cei mai prolifici și respectați romancieri britanici ai epocii victoriene. Funcționar public de carieră, a reușit să îmbine rigoarea administrativă cu o observație fină a moravurilor sociale. Este cunoscut în special pentru Chronicles of Barsetshire, unde a creat un univers provincial detaliat, dar și pentru romanele sale politice și sociale. Deși reputația sa a cunoscut un declin spre sfârșitul vieții, a fost redescoperit în secolul XX, fiind astăzi considerat un maestru al realismului psihologic și un cronicar neîntrecut al instituțiilor și cutumelor englezești.

Descriere scurtă

The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope, published in London in 1875 after first appearing in serialised form. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts. It was Trollope's longest novel, and is particularly rich in sub-plot. It was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s; Trollope had just returned to England from abroad, and was appalled by the greed and dishonesty those scandals exposed. This novel was his rebuke. It dramatises how that greed and dishonesty pervaded the commercial, political, moral, and intellectual life of that era. Augustus Melmotte is a financier with a mysterious past. He is rumoured to have Jewish origins, and is rumored to be connected to some failed businesses in Vienna. When he moves his business and his family to London, the city's upper crust begins buzzing with rumours about him - and a host of characters ultimately find their lives changed because of him.

Notă biografică

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote novels on political, social and gender issues and other topical matters. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life but he had regained the esteem of critics by the mid-20th century. Trollope began writing on the numerous long train trips around Ireland he had to take to carry out his postal duties. Setting very firm goals about how much he would write each day, he eventually became one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote his earliest novels while working as a Post Office inspector, occasionally dipping into the "lost-letter" box for ideas.

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The Way We Live Now—regarded by many as Anthony Trollope’s greatest novel—encompasses in its broad scope much of the business, political, social, and literary life of 1870s London. At its centre is the larger-than-life figure of Augustus Melmotte, a financier of uncertain background who rises to great heights over a financial speculation scheme involving plans for a railway in America. “I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age,” Trollope wrote of this novel, and the work remains one of the world’s most ambitious fictionalized critiques of capitalism. It also provides unique insight into the operation of the late-Victorian literary world, into the dynamics of anti-Semitism in the Victorian period, and into a number of other subjects of continuing interest. More than that, it remains among the most readable of Trollope’s many novels.
The Way We Live Now was initially published in serialized form in monthly shilling parts that appeared between February 1874 and September 1875. The full work was first published in book form in 1875, in two volumes. That same year a one-volume edition was published by Harper & Brothers in the United States. Both 1875 publications in book form included the illustrations that Lionel Grimshaw Fawkes had prepared for the publication in serial form; it is the one-volume Harper & Brothers edition that is reproduced here.
This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.

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The Way We Live Now—regarded by many as Anthony Trollope’s greatest novel—encompasses in its broad scope much of the business, political, social, and literary life of 1870s London. At its centre is the larger-than-life figure of Augustus Melmotte, a financier of uncertain background who rises to great heights over a financial speculation scheme involving plans for a railway in America. “I was instigated by what I conceived to be the commercial profligacy of the age,” Trollope wrote of this novel, and the work remains one of the world’s most ambitious fictionalized critiques of capitalism. It also provides unique insight into the operation of the late-Victorian literary world, into the dynamics of anti-Semitism in the Victorian period, and into a number of other subjects of continuing interest. More than that, it remains among the most readable of Trollope’s many novels.
The Way We Live Now was initially published in serialized form in monthly shilling parts that appeared between February 1874 and September 1875. The full work was first published in book form in 1875, in two volumes. That same year a one-volume edition was published by Harper & Brothers in the United States. Both 1875 publications in book form included the illustrations that Lionel Grimshaw Fawkes had prepared for the publication in serial form; it is the one-volume Harper & Brothers edition that is reproduced here.
This is one of a series from Broadview Press of facsimile reprint editions—editions that provide readers with a direct sense of these works as the Victorians themselves experienced them.