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Cargando... Don Juan (Penguin Classics) (1826 original; edición 2004)por Lord Byron (Autor), E Steffan (Editor), T.G. Steffan (Editor), W.W. Pratt (Editor), Peter Manning (Introducción) — 1 más, Susan Wolfson (Introducción)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Bloody great book. I think a lot of people don't realize that as a poet/writer Byron was in a sense closer to 18th century satirists like, say, Swift than he was to his Romantic so-called cohorts ... and yet he's often considered some kind of "arch"-Romantic. Naah. His great talent, I'd say, was a comic one, and it's in Don Juan -- even unfinished as it is -- that this comic genius burns most brightly. It isn't just the funny-as-hell "Hudibrastic" rhymes he often employs, it's ... oh, hell, he was just such a funny damned bastard. Mean, spiteful, but funny. ( ) This was tremendous fun to read. Byron's personality infuses the work and he's a likable, open-hearted narrator. It's a picture of England just before the clouds of Victorian prudery turned love from a game to a chore. It also has a strong anti-war subtext that I wasn't expecting. A great read and a real surprise! It's been said (I can't remember by whom) that a great book should be read once in youth, once in middle age, and once in old age, just as a great building should viewed at dawn, in daylight, and at dusk. I first read Byron's Don Juan when I was 25 years old. It was a Penguin edition, and I remember being very swept away by Byron's sexually-charged romance. I had always thought of 19th century poets as being very, well, Victorian. "We shall talk about love but it must be chaste, innocent love. No sex please; we're Victorian". Byron had no such prudish streak. Don Juan is filled with passion and love in equal measure. It has a sensuality that would have horrified Byron's contemporaries, but which shows a profound respect for love, sex, and women that was unheard of during his own era. Now, as I'm closer to middle age then youth, I'm looking forward to revisiting Byron's Don and see if any of my perceptions have changed.
In spite of its romantic trappings Don Juan is as "true" as anything by Maupassant or Chekhov or Somerset Maugham, and the reason is Byron's infallible sense, as his style matured, for the immediacy of a situation and of those taking part in it. In the midst of Eastern local color, which could be as vapid as Lalla Rookh, the oriental tales in verse by his friend Thomas Moore, he has a Shakespearean sureness for the touch that makes all live... Wherever Juan goes, even into the kitchen where he sees "cooks in motion with their clean arms bare," his creator seizes on the vital impression. Though Byron in fact corrected lavishly, and had second or third thoughts like any other writer, it remains true of him, as he said, that when composing he was like a tiger, which if it misses its first spring goes growling back to the jungle. Pertenece a las series editorialesClube de Literatura Clássica (CLC) (42 [October 2023]) Doubleday Dolphin (C64) Modern Library (24.3) — 4 más Contenido enContieneTiene un comentario del texto enTiene como guía de estudio aListas de sobresalientes
?Sum?gete en la p?ica y apasionante historia de "Don Juan" de Lord Byron, ahora en una cautivadora versin? en audiolibro en espa?l! Nuestra excepcional narracin? te transportar ?a trav de las brillantes y sensuales estrofas de este cls?ico literario. Cada palabra y cada verso de "Don Juan" se han preservado en su totalidad, ofreci?dote una experiencia de audicin? ininterrumpida y completa. Nuestro audiolibro es completamente fiel al texto original, permiti?dote disfrutar de la narrativa vv?ida y el ingenio satr?ico de Byron en su mx?imo esplendor. La narracin? superior de este audiolibro te envolver,? cautiv?dote con su expresin? y emocin?. Cada personaje cobrar ?vida a trav de las voces hb?ilmente interpretadas, mientras que la entonacin? y el ritmo te sumergir? en la historia de Don Juan de principio a fin. Adems?, nuestro audiolibro de "Don Juan" en espa?l ofrece un valor excepcional por su precio. Con una duracin? completa y sin abreviaciones, obtendrs? horas de entretenimiento y enriquecimiento literario a un precio accesible. No pierdas la oportunidad de disfrutar de este cls?ico en su forma ms? vv?ida y atractiva. Adquiere ahora nuestro audiolibro de "Don Juan" de Lord Byron en espa?l y embr?cate en un viaje literario inolvidable. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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