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Durante un viaggio in canoa sul Danubio, due uomini sono costretti a fermarsi su un'isola a causa della corrente. Quello che doveva essere un tranquillo campeggio temporaneo si trasforma in un'esperienza inquietante e soprannaturale: i salici che ricoprono l'isola sembrano muoversi e bisbigliare, al soffio del vento, dando l'impressione di essere vivi; si percepisce la presenza di entità ostili invisibili e spaventose, che mettono in dubbio ogni capacità di raziocinio. La forza narrativa e la potenza evocativa delle immagini creano una tensione crescente nel lettore, il quale - come avviene per i due protagonisti - si troverà coinvolto in una battaglia tra il reale e il surreale. Gli eventi accaduti sono reali o frutto di un'immaginazione sovra-eccitata e suggestionabile? "I salici" di Algernon Blackwood è un esempio riuscitissimo di wird fiction, al punto da essere definito da Lovecraft come il miglior racconto del sovrannaturale di tutta la letteratura inglese.
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- Pagine: 141
- Data di uscita: 04-12-2019
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Two friends are going down Danube in a canoe… The river is in flood… It is excruciatingly hot an the strong wind is blowing… They find themselves in an unpopulated area of swamps… We entered the land of desolation on wings, and in less than half an hour there was neither boat nor fishing-hut nor red Leggi tutto
H. P. Lovecraft called "The Willows", by Algernon Blackwood a great name by the way the "best weird tale of all time", you be the judge ... In the early part of the Twentieth Century two experienced young adventurers decided to take a canoe trip, down the famous Danube River during the summer how gl Leggi tutto
“We had “strayed,” as the Swede put it, into some region or some set of conditions where the risks were great, yet unintelligible to us; where the frontiers of some unknown world lay close about us." Loved Algernon Blackwood's The Willows ! Everything about the wilderness the protagonists travel throu Leggi tutto
What a beautifully written atmospheric and creepy story this was. Timeless in the quality of the eerie telling of this fine strange tale. It is a short story yet it leaves you satisfied without the need for a lengthy book. Very imaginative writing weaves a slow and steady building of a foreboding el Leggi tutto
Published in the early 1900s as part of a collection of stories, H.P. Lovecraft felt that Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows was simply the greatest tale of the supernatural in English literature. It is a novella, and has a bare minimum of dialog between the narrator and his good friend, the Swede. It Leggi tutto
...something so big and yet immaterial, out of reach and yet reaching for you; two men on a canoe trip down the Danube - what wonders! what beauty! what bliss! - find there are worlds and things beyond us, terrible and awe-inspiring things, inexplicable things, things that rise from the willows, thi Leggi tutto
A very special story, unfortunately there is no italian version and the English used by Blackwood has not been for me really of immediate and easy understanding( many words by now obsolete). What I love about Blackwood is his ability to get you into a psychological strain during the reading that very Leggi tutto
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