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Grandi speranze

By Charles Dickens, G. K. Chesterton (Contributor), Carlo Fruttero (Preface)

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| Paperback | 9788806190279

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La misteriosa fortuna che la sorte assegna all'orfano Pip, il suo altezzoso rifiuto dei vecchi amici, le sventure e le sofferenze che segnano il suo percorso esistenziale verso una consapevole maturità costituiscono la base di un racconto ove il senso di colpa e la violenza si fondono con spunti groContinue

La misteriosa fortuna che la sorte assegna all'orfano Pip, il suo altezzoso rifiuto dei vecchi amici, le sventure e le sofferenze che segnano il suo percorso esistenziale verso una consapevole maturità costituiscono la base di un racconto ove il senso di colpa e la violenza si fondono con spunti grotteschi nei quali la commedia assume connotazioni caustiche e crudeli. Dal momento in cui, nelle spettrali paludi del Kent, Pip si imbatte in Magwitch, un forzato evaso, fino all'ultimo incontro con la bella e cinica Estella che suscita in lui sterili emozioni e turbamenti, il lettore si trova coinvolto in una vicenda tanto drammatica quanto affascinante. Studio meditato dello sviluppo di una personalità, è questa l'opera di Dickens in cui più si avverte un notevole approfondimento psicologico che, unito alla raffinata maestria verbale dell'autore, consente di godere fino all'ultima pagina una storia ricca di eventi e di suspense. Composto nel 1861, romanzo della maturità di Dickens, "Grandi Speranze" rivela la stessa freschezza e spontaneità del suo capolavoro, "David Copperfield", scritto dieci anni prima.

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    Abel(-e Caino) Magwitch questa è per te.
    E per tutti quelli come te.
    Perchè a questo giro di lettura, mi sono accorta che è tua, la Grande Speranza.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVABxFsXx9o

    Mary, this station is playing every sad song.
    I remember like we were alive.
    I heard it Sunday mor ... (continue)

    Abel(-e Caino) Magwitch questa è per te.
    E per tutti quelli come te.
    Perchè a questo giro di lettura, mi sono accorta che è tua, la Grande Speranza.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVABxFsXx9o

    Mary, this station is playing every sad song.
    I remember like we were alive.
    I heard it Sunday morn' from inside of these walls.
    In a prison cell, where we spent those nights.
    And they burnt up the diner where I always used to find her.
    Licking young boys blood from her claws.
    And I learned about the blues from this kitten I knew.
    Her hair was raven and her heart was like a tomb.
    My heart's like a wound.

    Mary, I worried and stalled every night of my life.
    Better safe than making the party.
    And I never had a good time, I sat by my bedside, with papers and poetry about Estella.
    Great expectations, we had the greatest expectations.
    (The Gaslight Anthem)

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    The distinguishing quality of Dickens' people is that they are solitaries. They are people caught living in a world of their own. They soliloquize in it. The solitariness of people is paralled by the solitariness of things. Philantrophy attacks people like a humor or an obvservable germ. By this dis ... (continue)

    The distinguishing quality of Dickens' people is that they are solitaries. They are people caught living in a world of their own. They soliloquize in it. The solitariness of people is paralled by the solitariness of things. Philantrophy attacks people like a humor or an obvservable germ. By this dissociation Dickens brings to us something of the fright of childhood.
    Some of the most wonderful scenes in GE are those in which people, presumably in the act of conversation, raptly soliloquize, using a fantastic provate language.
    From Don Quixote on, novels have frequently drawn our attention to the ambiguities of language and the varieties of its expressive relationship to life.
    Language as a means of communication is a provision for social and spiritual order. You cannot make "Order" with an integer, one thing alone, for order is definitively arelationship among things. Dicken's soliloquizing characters, for all their funniness (aloneness is inexorably funny, like the one of the man who slips on a banana peel, seen from the point of view of togheterness), suggert a world of isdolated integers, terrifying alone and unrelated.
    The book openxs with a child's first conscious experience of his alonenenss. Immediately ana brupt encounter occurs. his humans fragments suddenly shock against one other in collisions like those od Democritus'atoms.
    Tecnique is vision, an index of a vision of life thas is human separatedness as the ordinary condition.
    Dickens lived in a time and an environment in which a full-scale demolition of traditional values was going on (the century of progress).
    People were becoming things and this (the ones that money can buy or that are the means for making money or for exalting prestige in abstract) were becoming more important than people. People were de-animated, robbed of their souls. So they are described by non human attributes or by such an exaggeration of or emphasis on one part of their appearance that they seen to be.
    In this book the subject is the etiology of guilt and of atonement.
    Moreover in Dickens' universe the association between people and objects acts not merely to illustrate a person's quality simbolicallyu but it has a necessary metaphysical function.
    miss Hasvisham has been guilty of an aggression against life in using the two children, Pip and Estella, as inanimate instrumente of revenge for her broken heart and she is being changes retributively into a fungus.
    Without benefit of psicology, Dickens saw the human soul reduced literally to the images occupying its inner life.

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  • Fra Grandi speranze e Disarmonie vittoriane i mille volti

    randi Speranze è un romanzo emblematico anche per la stretta inerenza al tema scelto per questa edizione del Gutenberg, La vita inaspettata. Esso infatti riflette non solo i profondi cambiamenti di un’epoca in cui si era portati a nutrire “grandi speranze” spesso illusorie, ma pure gli sconvolgime ... (continue)

    randi Speranze è un romanzo emblematico anche per la stretta inerenza al tema scelto per questa edizione del Gutenberg, La vita inaspettata. Esso infatti riflette non solo i profondi cambiamenti di un’epoca in cui si era portati a nutrire “grandi speranze” spesso illusorie, ma pure gli sconvolgimenti nella vita personale e professionale dello scrittore che trovano espressione nel prevalere del teatro, attraverso i Readings (le letture pubbliche dei suoi romanzi), sulla narrazione.

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