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The Way We Live Now de Anthony Trollope

The Way We Live Now

Autor Anthony Trollope
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 noi 2011

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: 9781617204050
ISBN-10: 1617204056
Pagini: 808
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 45 mm
Greutate: 1.17 kg
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Editura: SMK Books

De ce să citești această carte

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.

Despre autor

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.

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Excerpt from The Way We Live Now, Vol. 2 of 2
Paul Montague reached London on bis return from Suffolk early on the Monday morning, and on the following day he wrote to Mrs. Hurtle. As he sat in his lodgings, thinking of his condition, ho almost wished that he had taken Memotte's offer and gone to Mexico. Ho might at any rate have endeavoured to promote the railway earnestly, and then have abandoned it if he found the whole thing false. In such case of course ho would never have seen Hetta Carbary again; but, as things were, of what use to him was his love, - of what use to him or to her? The kind of life of which ho dreamed, such a life in England as was that of Roger Carbary, or, as such life would be, if Roger had a wife whom he loved, seemed to be far beyond his roach. Nobody was like Roger Carbury Would it not be well that he should go away, and, as he went, write to Hetta and bid her marry the best man that over lived in the world.
But the journey to Mexico was no longer open to him. He had repudiated the proposition and had quarrelled with Melmotte. It was necessary that he should immediately take some further step in regard to Mrs. Hurtle. Twice lately ho had gone to Islington determined that he would sec that lady for the last time. Then he had taken her to Lowestoffe, and had been equally firm in his resolution that he would there put an end to his present bonds. Now he had promised to go again to Islington; - and was aware that if he failed to keep his promise, she would come to him. In this way there would never be an and to it.
He would certainly go again, as ho had promised, - if she should still require it; but he would first try what a letter would do, - a plain unvarnished tale. Might it still be possible that a plain tale sent by post should have sufficient efficacy. This was his plain tale as he now told it.
"Mr Dear Mrs. Hurtle, -
"I promised that I would go to you again in Islington, and so I will, if you still require it. But I think that such a meeting can be of no service to either of us. What is to be gained ? I do not for a moment mean to justify my own conduct. It is not to be justified. When I met you on our journey hither from San Francisco, I was
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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.