Isabelle - La sinfonia pastorale
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Tradotto da: Elina Imberciadori Klersy, Marco Forti
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Definito dallo stesso Gide un «intermezzo semifrivolo tra due opere troppo serie» ‒ La porta stretta e I sotterranei del Vaticano ‒ Isabelle (1911) è una specie di laboratorio, un esercizio letterario per superare l’autobiografismo e sperimentare la via del récit impersonale. Gérard Lacase, studente e aspirante romanziere, scopre in un antico castello il ritratto di una donna affascinante; stregato dall’angelica innocenza di quel volto, se ne innamora perdutamente fino a confondere realtà e illusione, ma il romantico sogno è destinato a infrangersi contro un’orrenda verità. La sinfonia pastorale (1919) anticipa il grande scenario dei Faux monnayeurs: è il racconto in forma di diario della patetica relazione tra un pastore protestante svizzero e una povera ragazza cieca travolti da un’“educazione sentimentale” che corrompe sia il maestro sia l’allieva. L’ignoranza del male nella fanciulla, di cui la cecità è un simbolo, si rivela meno pericolosa della conoscenza del bene nel pastore, che non ha il coraggio di riconoscere la natura del proprio sentimento e che, equivocando in malafede tra carità evangelica e amore terreno, conduce la vicenda a un tragico epilogo.
- ISBN: 8811005175
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 140
- Data di uscita: 19-05-2022
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Two wonderful novellas, though LSP gets most of the praise. Certainly it sticks in one's mind more than Isabelle, but I think I'd rather re-read the latter: SP is a little too obvious. My rediscovery of Gide has been the reading triumph of the year for me so far, and these two only help that along:
One of my favourite books of the year. Gide’s writing is beautiful, delectable, but lucid and precise. It reminded me of Colette’s sensual prose. And Calvino’s. Ugh I loved the writing a lot, it was such a pleasure. And the stories in these two novellas were fascinating. A character in the first nov Leggi tutto
I’m a big fan of Gide after having read 2 books of his previously but this failed to live up to the high expectations. This is 2 books in one. The first book is a really strange story about a pastor who is fairly religious who adopts a blind girl who is pretty dumb also and essentially nurtures her Leggi tutto
“Simfonia pastorala” e inca o dovada ca tot raul din lumea asta izvoraste din rasa masculina
Isabelle creates expectations, but once on the plateau, it ends, not with unanswered questions, but simply a weak ending. The Pastoral Symphony is notably the real deal here. Shorter, but pungent. Also, in terms of the underlying messages, there is more to gain from this story, and some amazing line Leggi tutto
Two stories of men thinking women are what they would like to be, rather than what they are. Felt like the message was the point, and that's pretty uninteresting.
On the face of it, this is a story about a middle-aged country priest who brings a blind orphan girl into his home, with tragic consequences. But there is a lot more to it than that. The pastor and his wife, Amélie, have five children. The youngest is still howling in his cradle. The oldest, Jacques Leggi tutto
La Symphonie is a story of forbidden love and loss of faith, and as such its themes are uncomfortably personal for me. The main character's lack of awareness of that in himself which is obvious to all around him is well drawn. In Isabelle, Gide's real interest is not Isabelle but her son Casimir - h Leggi tutto
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