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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Disinherited by his grandfather, Roderick Random leaves Scotland for London to become a naval surgeon. The novel was more interesting as a social document consciously and unconsciously revealing its period than as a story. I found a lot of it repetitive, especially parts that were obviously meant to be funny and probably were when it was published, but I can only take so many jokes involving somebody getting covered in piss or poo. Having read Peregrine Pickle, the novel Smollett wrote after this one, three years ago, I kind of realised that, like with Henderson and Herzog, I'd read these the wrong way around. Smollett made his name with Roderick Random and then went on to perfect his style with Peregrine in much the same way that Bellow did, not that I find Smollett anywhere near as engaging as Bellow. If you've ever read any picaresque novels, you've read Roderick Random. Interminable japes lead to misunderstandings, wheezes, a dice with death or two and enough characters that Dickens, 100 years later, had no shortage of inspiration. There's nothing particularly new here for the modern day reader, and if you want to distract yourself for a few hours, there's no harm in it. But, as with Peregrine, it does tend to go on a bit, although Peregrine goes on far, far longer than Roderick does. Plus there are some satirical and historical references that may fox our understanding today. The fact that the novel does travel overseas (or at least the characters literally do) means that there are some interesting diversions on the way. So, an important book for literature and one with some distracting adventures, but not one I'd urge you to rush out and read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Henry Fielding (Tom Jones), Laurence Sterne (Tristram Shandy), y Tobias Smollet son los tres ma?ximos representantes de la novela picaresca inglesa del siglo XVIII. Bien conocidos de los lectores de habla espan?ola los dos primeros, no existi?a hasta ahora en el mercado en lengua castellana ninguna traduccio?n de Smollet, una ausenciaincomprensible que se subsana ahora con la publicacio?n deLas aventuras de Roderick Random. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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* Everyone calls this book a picaresque, but David Blewett, editor of my Penguin Classics edition, goes to great pains in his introduction to establish that it's not one.