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S'està carregant… Brideshead Revisited (1945)de Evelyn Waugh
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» 73 més BBC Big Read (40) 501 Must-Read Books (105) Best family sagas (14) 1940s (8) Sense of place (3) 20th Century Literature (142) A Novel Cure (54) Best School Stories (21) Unread books (120) BBC Big Read (27) Best Family Stories (44) Metafiction (35) Favourite Books (677) Folio Society (276) Elegant Prose (11) Books Read in 2016 (1,405) Movie Adaptations (42) Ambleside Books (185) Books Read in 2013 (310) My favourite books (29) Books Read in 2022 (1,308) Books Read in 2015 (1,353) United Kingdom (43) Books Read in 2014 (1,069) The Greatest Books (51) Academia in Fiction (37) Didactic Fiction (16) BBC Top Books (35) Books Read in 2018 (3,683) Books Set in Italy (126) AP Lit (44) Sexuality & Gender (14) My Favourite Books (47) Tagged 20th Century (21) Fiction For Men (95) the preppy handbook (10) War Literature (81) Books tagged favorites (372) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. H1.1.5 El retorno de Charles Ryder a Brideshead —la elegante mansión de lord Marchmain, convertida ahora en cuartel— devuelve a su memoria aquellos tiempos, anteriores a la guerra, en que paseaba embelesado por sus hermosos jardines y salones y se dejaba sucumbir al hechizo de sus singulares habitantes. En realidad, nunca pudo Charles librarse de su ambigua amistad con el inquieto Sebastian, ni de su obsesivo amor por la hermana de éste, lady Julia, ni de la oscura y contradictoria fatalidad que dejó marcada para siempre la atribulada vida de los Marchmain con su huella de drama y desvarío. Retorno a Brideshead, una de las novelas más importantes de la aclamada obra del célebre escritor inglés, fue motivo de una espléndida serie televisiva, interpretada entre otros, por Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom y Stépahne Audran, que obtuvo un enorme éxito mundial. [Font: http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/maxi-retorno-a-brideshead-maxi]
Evelyn Waugh was a marvellous writer, but one of a sort peculiarly likely to write a bad book at any moment. The worst of his, worse even than The Loved One, must be Brideshead Revisited. But long before the Granada TV serial came along it was his most enduringly popular novel; the current Penguin reprint is the nineteenth in its line. The chief reason for this success is obviously and simply that here we have a whacking, heavily romantic book about nobs... It is as if Evelyn Waugh came to believe that since about all he looked for in his companions was wealth, rank, Roman Catholicism (where possible) and beauty (where appropriate), those same attributes and no more would be sufficient for the central characters in a long novel, enough or getting on for enough, granted a bit of style thrown in, to establish them as both glamorous and morally significant. That last blurring produced a book I would rather expect a conscientious Catholic to find repulsive, but such matters are none of my concern. Certainly the author treats those characters with an almost cringing respect, implying throughout that they are important and interesting in some way over and above what we are shown of them. Brideshead Revisited fulfils the quest for certainty, though the image of a Catholic aristocracy, with its penumbra of a remote besieged chivalry, a secular hierarchy threatened by the dirty world but proudly falling back on a prepared eschatological position, has seemed over-romantic, even sentimental, to non-Catholic readers. It remains a soldier's dream, a consolation of drab days and a deprived palate, disturbingly sensuous, even slavering with gulosity, as though God were somehow made manifest in the haute cuisine. The Puritan that lurks in every English Catholic was responsible for the later redaction of the book, the pruning of the poetry of self-indulgence. Snobbery is the charge most often levelled against Brideshead; and, at first glance, it is also the least damaging. Modern critics have by now accused practically every pre-modern novelist of pacifism, or collaboration, in the class war. Such objections are often simply anachronistic, telling us more about present-day liberal anxieties than about anything else. But this line won’t quite work for Brideshead, which squarely identifies egalitarianism as its foe and proceeds to rubbish it accordingly... ‘I have been here before’: the opening refrain is from Rossetti, and much of the novel reads like a golden treasury of neo-classical clichés: phantoms, soft airs, enchanted gardens, winged hosts – the liturgical rhythms, the epic similes, the wooziness. Waugh’s conversion was a temporary one, and never again did he attempt the grand style. Certainly the prose sits oddly with the coldness and contempt at the heart of the novel, and contributes crucially to its central imbalance. "Lush and evocative ... the one Waugh which best expresses at once the profundity of change and the indomitable endurance of the human spirit." The new novel by Evelyn Waugh—Brideshead Revisited—has been a bitter blow to this critic. I have admired and praised Mr. Waugh, and when I began reading Brideshead Revisited, I was excited at finding that he had broken away from the comic vein for which he is famous and expanded into a new dimension... But this enthusiasm is to be cruelly disappointed. What happens when Evelyn Waugh abandons his comic convention—as fundamental to his previous work as that of any Restoration dramatist—turns out to be more or less disastrous... For Waugh’s snobbery, hitherto held in check by his satirical point of view, has here emerged shameless and rampant... In the meantime, I predict that Brideshead Revisited will prove to be the most successful, the only extremely successful, book that Evelyn Waugh has written, and that it will soon be up in the best-seller list somewhere between The Black Rose and The Manatee. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorials10/18, Domaine étranger (1398) — 12 més Penguin Books (821) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2016) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2020-10) Penguin Modern Classics (821) RBA Narrativa Actual (20) A tot vent (202) Ullstein Taschenbuch (20232) Иллюминатор (42) Contingut aTé la seqüela (no dins una sèrie)Té l'adaptacióAbreujat aTé un estudiTé un comentari al textTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiants
Written at the end of the World War II, this work mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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