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Cargando... I am Jonathan Scrivener (1930)por Claude Houghton
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Not going to make this long, just plain and simple. "I am Jonathan Scrivener" is one of the most fascinating, thought-provoking, and prescient books I have read in a good while. It is a novel but, much more. One reviewer described it as an existential mystery. Clearly ahead of his time, the author lays out many of the dilemmas that spawned the intellectual ferment of the twentieth-century. His insights and comments remain powerful and relevant. A simple and relatively brief work that demands a serious reading. All this while being entertained by the "mystery". A work that has clearly been unfairly overlooked. ( ) Da Pirandello a Rashomon e ritorno Per strani incroci di lettura ho appena lasciato il Bartleby di Vila-Matas e incontro un altro Bartleby. La definizione in questo caso non è mia, ma di I. Bignardi, http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2014/09/28/il-nuovo-... E questa volta è un Bartleby che mi ha catturato. Un vero romanzo psicologico, un’indagine sul problema dell’identità, sulle molte facce di ogni persona, sui diversi comportamenti che ognuno assume di fronte a interlocutori diversi. E anche un romanzo sull’affannosa ricerca di una propria strada, sui tentativi di dare un senso alla propria vita, con un atteggiamento di fondo molto pessimista quanto alla possibilità di trovarlo. Molto inglese nell’ambientazione, una Londra dei primi decenni del secolo scorso, ancora imperiale, ma con segni premonitori dello sgretolamento imminente della grande potenza . Molto inglese anche lo stile di scrittura, una volta tanto rispettato e ben reso nella traduzione, forse anche aiutata dalla precedente versione di Oreste del Buono. Alcune frasi e osservazioni sono scolpite con grande potenza e mi rammarico di non averne subito preso nota. Purtroppo non riesco a ritrovarle. E’ una lezione. Appuntare subito e non aspettare domani. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"So remarkable in truth is this novel that I cannot understand why it is not universally known and admired." - Hugh Walpole "I Am Jonathan Scrivener remains a tantalizing, highly diverting philosophical novel of rare elegance and wit." - Michael Dirda James Wrexham is thirty-nine, lonely, and stuck in a dead-end job when he comes upon an advertisement for a position as secretary to Mr. Jonathan Scrivener. Much to his surprise, he is hired at a lavish salary despite never even meeting Scrivener, and he is told to take up residence at once in the flat of his new employer, who has suddenly disappeared. Mystified by Scrivener's strange conduct and desperate to learn something about him, it seems Wrexham will get the answers he seeks when Scrivener's friends begin to visit the flat: Pauline Mandeville, an ethereal beauty, Francesca Bellamy, a widow who may responsible for the death of her husband, Andrew Middleton, a disillusioned alcoholic, and Antony Rivers, a handsome playboy. But as each of them unfolds his story about Scrivener, it seems that none of them are describing the same person, though all are obsessed with finding him. Why has he hired Wrexham, and why does he seem to have thrust this unlikely group of people together? Is Scrivener engaged in an inscrutable experiment, or could he be laying some kind of trap? And will this enigmatic figure ever appear and say, "I am Jonathan Scrivener"? Popular in his time for his psychological thrillers, Claude Houghton (1889-1961) was admired by writers as diverse as P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Miller, Hugh Walpole, and Graham Greene, but has fallen into neglect in the past half-century. This new edition restores his masterpiece I Am Jonathan Scrivener (1930) to print and includes Walpole's introduction from the 1935 edition and an essay by Pulitzer Prize winning critic and Washington Post columnist Michael Dirda. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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