Melville
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Per quasi sei anni Jean Giono racconta di aver coltivato uno strano sodalizio: quello con Herman Melville e il suo capolavoro Moby Dick. Dal libro compagno delle sue giornate si sprigiona la vita multiforme dei mari che si materializza nel paesaggio circostante: le colline si fanno onde, i tronchi dei pini alberi maestri, mentre la balena soffia davanti a lui. È così che, a partire dal 1936, sulla scia di questa relazione osmotica matura il progetto di lavorare, insieme all’amico Lucien Jacques, alla prima traduzione francese dell’opera. Nel moltiplicarsi delle pagine che dovevano esserne la prefazione e che ben presto diventano materia narrativa, Giono immagina quali eventi – durante il soggiorno di Herman a Londra nel 1849 per incontrare il suo editore – abbiano ispirato a Melville la stesura di Moby Dick al suo rientro negli Stati Uniti. La penna evocativa di Jean Giono dipinge un Melville che si muove tra la quotidianità della vita a terra e gli sconfinati orizzonti del mare, tra la produzione di opere conformi ai gusti del pubblico e la più autentica vocazione letteraria. Lo si vede abbandonare i vestiti alla moda per un abito da marinaio, conoscere una nazionalista irlandese, lottare con un angelo e infine piegarsi alla sua volontà… Sulle note di una narrazione che viaggia tra biografia e invenzione, e che oscilla tra la vicenda letteraria ed editoriale e un’intensa storia d’amore vissuta dall’autore americano, questo romanzo rende omaggio a un grande scrittore ritraendone i sogni e i più intimi moti dell’animo.
- ISBN: 8823522854
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 144
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”If there’s a consistency in his work, it can only be his distinctive style. His titles are, in reality, nothing but subtitles. The real title of each and every one of his books is Melville, Melville, Melville, again Melville, always Melville. I express myself; I’m incapable of expressing any being Leggi tutto
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In addition to being an excellent novelist on his own, Jean Giono was a Herman Melville fanatic. In fact, he is responsible for the most frequently read translation of Moby-Dick into French. It was originally planned that he would also write an introduction. Instead, he wrote a work on fiction very
Twentieth-century French novelist Jean Giono is currently being introduced (or re-introduced by NYRB Classics) to American readers, and what better introduction than Giono's bio-fantasia about Herman Melville, now translated by Paul Eprile? Melville was published in 1941 in France, and written in th Leggi tutto
This was a great little read. Not much to it, it was quick once I started back into it, but it was truly a treat. This was written as an "essay" to Jean Giono's translation of Moby-Dick into French, but it was much more. For me, it created a stronger appreciation for Melville's great novel. The fict Leggi tutto
"I live to keep an eye on the gods." An unusual little novel that fictates into reality an imaginary segue in the life of Herman Melville. Giono, whose pastoral-apocalypse novel Hill , I thoroughly enjoyed, was involved in the translation of Moby Dick into French and composed this weird little story a Leggi tutto
Very quirky little novel that revolves around Melville's visit to London to sell his novel White Jacket. Giono was the French translator of Moby Dick, and Melville started out as a rather hybrid personal essay about Melville that turned into a novel. Lost me in the middle section, a wholly fabricate Leggi tutto
This is a weird novel that combines biography and magical realism into a narrative that is creative and good without ever rising to the level of being truly great. Giono's Melville is fascinating and alive; the chemistry between he and Adelina is palpable. My biggest complaint about *Melville* is th Leggi tutto
Intriguing and creative "biography" of Herman Melville during the period just before he writes Moby Dick and thereafter. Prior to tackling his masterpiece he had written well-received but more stereotypical adventure stories. The book at hand tries to explain the new more dangerous direction his wor Leggi tutto
It takes a lot of courage to make up a story about someone that lived a life as grand as Herman Melville did. But in the right hands, as Jean Giono has done, it can work magically. Written about Melville’s life right before he himself wrote Moby Dick it’s equal parts sad, tragic yet full of promise. Leggi tutto
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