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Sinossi
L'esploratore tedesco Ludwig Leichhardt partì nel 1848 verso l'interno dell'Australia, dove si smarrì senza fare ritorno. Ispirata alla vicenda di Leichhardt è quella di Johann Voss, protagonista di questo romanzo di straordinaria intensità drammatica. Voss è un volitivo avventuriero, un megalomane spinto dalla propria natura a un'impresa azzardata - l'attraversamento del continente - che diventa ricerca di sé e del senso dell'universo; un viaggio mistico che non approda alla conoscenza e alla scoperta ma si tramuta in educazione alla sofferenza. Novello Orfeo, persi i contatti con la sua Euridice, la sensibile e indomita Laura Trevelyan, Voss finirà inghiottito dal "mondo infero" della boscaglia e del deserto, diventando un'icona della storia e della leggenda del continente australiano. Introduzione di Thomas Keneally.
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- Pagine: 485
- Data di uscita: 11-06-2019
Recensioni
Voss is a splendidly dark and uncompromisingly realistic novel. The story is a conflict of the ideal and the actual… They realized, standing on the wharf, that the orderly, grey, past life was of no significance. They had reached that point at which they would be offered up, in varying degrees, to ch Leggi tutto
“There were occasions, this fever-gutted man suspected, when his leader was not sensible of their common doom, and so, he must see for him, he must feel for him. By now he was able to read the faintest tremor of blood or earth, the recording of which was perhaps his sole surviving reason for existen Leggi tutto
In the end I actually began to despise this book. Overwrought and pretentious in my opinion. A simple story based on an explorer disappearing in outback Australia during colonial times I never felt that the simplicity of the story was saved by the writing. Challenging prose is fine by me but this we Leggi tutto
Apparently White listened repeatedly to Alban Berg's violin concerto while composing Voss. I was made aware of this about half way through. I lazily experimented but found myself engulfed in the novel's emotional torrents. Maybe my ears popped, but I wasn't aware of the music. Voss is a story of voli Leggi tutto
Into the Wilderness The book opens with the delicacy of a Jane Austen. A young woman, alone in a Sydney drawing-room on a quiet Sunday morning around 1845, reluctantly receives a visitor from abroad. "That strange, foreign men should come on a Sunday when she herself had ventured on a headache was q Leggi tutto
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