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Cargando... La Viuda de las montañas (1827)por Sir Walter Scott
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There is The Highland Widow. Here is real history - but you notice at once - history without costume. History in the rags of the people. The widow’s husband has been a bandit, the Robin Hood of a clan that has almost died out. Her son perceives that times have changed; he enlists in the army which was once his father’s enemy. The mother is appalled by the disgrace and plots to restore her son to a life of crime. The tragedy which is enacted springs from the clash of two orders of virtue, and the virtue of one age has become the vice of the age that succeeds it. There is no dialect in this story. It is heroic and not Hogarthian. It is the kind of thing that Merimee and Pushkin took from Scott. And here, better than in his more elaborate compositions, we see the mark of Scott’s genius as a story-teller. I say nothing of the suspense of which he is always a master; I am thinking of his power of suggesting the ominous, the footsteps of fate coming to meet one on the road. Frequently Scott used the supernatural and the hints of second sight to get this effect, and they are all the more effective for being explained as the domestic beliefs of his characters which the author himself hesitates to accept... After looking back upon it one realises how ingenious and masterly has been the construction of a simple story. The end we could foresee; the means we could not, and it is in the means that Scott always shows the power of a master. Pertenece a las seriesChronicles of the Canongate, publication order (1827, 1st set) Waverley Novels (1775) Waverley Novels, publication (1827) Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido en
La viuda de las montañas, nos relata la historia de una mujer que debido a las circunstancias trágicas que rodearon la muerte de su marido se ve condenada a la soledad y a la tristeza. Luego de que los clanes de las Tierras Altas de Escocia fueron reprimidos, el hijo de la Viuda de las Montañas reúne bajo su tímido mando a un grupo de rebeldes para organizar la defensa contra los invasores franceses. A pesar de sus nobles intenciones, el joven se ve involucrado en una serie de intrigas urdidas por su propia madre, producto quizás del dolor y el resentimiento por la pérdida de su esposo. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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