Joseph Andrews
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Un genere narrativo che non è «mai stato finora tentato nella nostra lingua»: così lo stesso Fielding definisce il suo Joseph Andrews. Pensato come feroce satira del coevo romanzo di Samuel Richardson Pamela o la virtù ricompensata, il libro travalica il suo originale intento parodistico per diventare l’avvincente resoconto d’un viaggio avventuroso, denso di peripezie, di esperienze travagliate, di episodi movimentati e farseschi. I principi morali, enunciati con noncuranza solo apparente, la cultura e l’amore per i libri unito a quello per gli uomini, la lotta contro il male e il vizio: sono questi i corollari delle divertenti avventure narrate in uno stile vivace e variato, pervaso da quell’indefinibile, ineffabile quasi, humour che è da sempre prerogativa inglese.
- ISBN: 8811360390
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 424
- Data di uscita: 16-10-2003
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Yesterday I had a small insight concerning my impressions of Joseph Andrews : when I picture Joseph and his friend Parson Adams traveling the English countryside, the weather is always clear, the sunlight a welcoming gold. Yet when I see Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on their similar journey through S Leggi tutto
Winning the battle with this novel was one of my bigger achievements this year.
Joseph Andrews is an 18th century picaresque novel, which means your likelihood of enjoying it will depend largely on your yen for country lanes, coaches, inns, innkeepers, alehouses, firesides, drunkards, con artists, storytellers, highwaymen, and other assorted creatures and landmarks one is likel Leggi tutto
A universal rule: college books are always the worst. THE END.
Sue me, but I found this book almost impossible. Only my obsession with actually finishing books I started kept me going, and the occasional whiff of genuinely funny sarcasm. Joseph Andrews was, in my mind, a much worse book than Tome Jones, even though it was supposed to be an obvious parody. Tom J Leggi tutto
Henry Fielding devoted a fair amount of literary energy to satirizing his contemporaries, in particular Samuel Richardson, whose Pamela is considered one of the earliest instances of the English novel. After the more overtly satirical Shamela , Fielding invented the character Joseph Andrews, brother Leggi tutto
Lady Booby.....I can't think of the name without grinning.
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