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Mostri notturni che aggrediscono e terrorizzano; re e popoli scandinavi del V-VI secolo con le loro storie di faide e le istituzioni e i riti e le forme poetiche delle loro bellicose società; un guerriero di eccezionale forza e saggezza di cui vengono raccontate le imprese terminali dell'apprendistato giovanile e della vecchiaia di re: questo è il Beowulf, poema antico inglese contenuto in un manoscritto del 1000 circa. Le sue vicende eroico-teratologiche si svolgono tra sale rilucenti, misteriosi specchi d'acqua, scogliere, tumuli preistorici; il suo racconto apre squarci di lunga portata nel passato e nel futuro, mentre nella seconda parte si modula in elegia sulla labilità esistenziale e storica di individui, stirpi, nazioni.
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- Pagine: 319
- Data di uscita: 14-11-2003
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”One of these things, as far as anyone ever can discern, looks like a woman; the other, warped in the shape of a man, moves beyond the pale bigger than any man, an unnatural birth called Grendel by country people in former days. They are fatherless creatures, and their whole ancestry is hidden in a Leggi tutto
I vaguely remembered reading this in 7th grade and thought it might be fun to grab the audio version of one of the most important works of Ye Olde English literature. I listened to this twice the other day and then realized a funny thing: Beowulf is basically every 80's action movie ever made. It's tr Leggi tutto
As a college English major, I studied Beowulf without any great enthusiasm; my real love was for the Romantic poets. And Chaucer, but that might have been partly because I thought it was hilarious that we were studying such bawdy material at BYU. Plus you can still puzzle out The Canterbury Tales in Leggi tutto
If I wrote a list of things I don't give a shit about, I'm pretty sure "some big fucking monster whose name sounds like a word for the area between my balls and my ass that attacks alcoholics and is eventually slain by some asshole, told entirely in some ancient form of English that I don't understa Leggi tutto
“The gap of danger where the demon waits is still unknown to you. Seek it if you dare.” Written by an Unknown author, Beowulf is the most famous work of Old English literature - a mythical epic that influenced J.R.R. Tolkien and the whole fantasy genre. Beowulf is a heroic epic about a Germanic h Leggi tutto
Those of you looking for a precise, age-old translation of Beowulf need to go back to Heaney. This is no timeless classic, this is no pretentious, literary snobbery made to bore high school sophomores. This is living, breathing poetry as it's meant to be, rooted in the language of then and the langu Leggi tutto
Beowulf is thought to have been written around the year 1000 AD, give or take a century. And the author is the extremely famous, very popular and world renowned writer... Unknown. Got you there, didn't I? LOL Probably not... if you're on Goodreads and studied American or English literature, you prob Leggi tutto
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