Sinossi
Per i suoi esordi di romanziere Conrad scelse di mettere a frutto la breve esperienza diretta dell’Asia sudorientale e di conquistare nuovi territori alla narrativa inglese. Primo dei tre romanzi che vanno a comporre la cosiddetta “trilogia malesiana” – insieme con Un reietto delle isole e Il salvataggio – La follia di Almayer (1895) abbraccia temi politici e sociali di cruciale importanza, sia analizzando le profonde convulsioni politiche del tempo (il colonialismo, la grande guerra), sia profetizzando il grande momento della revanche coloniale, le guerre di liberazione nazionale.
- ISBN: 8811132576
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 215
- Data di uscita: 03-03-2011
Recensioni
[By the way, as an old classic, this novel is available free on-line from various sites such as gutenberg.org] This was Conrad’s first novel. It’s a tale of personal tragedy and colonialism. The setting is on the southern part of the island of Borneo, present-day Indonesia,. formerly the Dutch East Leggi tutto
No two human beings understand each other. They can understand but their own voices. You wanted me to dream your dreams, to see your own visions—the visions of life amongst the white faces of those who cast me out from their midst in angry contempt. But while you spoke I listened to the voice of
Αν και το πρώτο του μυθιστόρημα, οπότε δεν ανήκει στις κορυφαίες του στιγμές, παραμένει ένα βιβλίο του Κόνραντ. Που σημαίνει ότι οι θεματικές, αλλά και το αφηγηματικό ύφος του είναι παρόντα. Υπάρχουν εμπνευσμένες σελίδες εκεί, σκέψεις και γραφή που προκαλούν ρίγος. Φυσικά, αξίζει. Leggi tutto
UPDATE (2022): So…boring as this book was (see original review below), apparently someone back in 2012 thought it would make a good movie; and that "someone" was a French director that the critics love (so 87% critic's score on Rotten Tomatoes) but audiences - who understand how "entertainment" work Leggi tutto
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