La fiera della vanità
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Introduzione di Silvano Sabbadini
Traduzione e note di Riccardo Mainardi
Vanity Fair (1848), l’opera cui Thackeray deve la fama, è costruito intorno alle storie parallele delle due protagoniste femminili: la spregiudicata Becky Sharp, avventuriera senza scrupoli disposta alla simulazione e al raggiro per crearsi una posizione nel mondo, e la virtuosa quanto insipida Amelia Sedley, destinata a una vita di rinunce e sottomissione nonostante sia cresciuta nell’agio. Prosperità del vizio e disgrazie della virtù, sembrerebbe a tutta prima la lezione del romanzo. Ma intorno a queste due figure l’autore raduna una folla di indimenticabili personaggi e caratteri, una rutilante fiera di comparse in cui ognuno esibisce ciò che possiede: ricchezza, potere, manie, meschinità. Perché, come recita il sottotitolo, il capolavoro di Thackeray è in verità un «romanzo senza eroe», uno straordinario affresco satirico della società inglese del primo Ottocento, una grottesca commedia umana in cui nulla e nessuno sfugge allo sguardo cinico del narratore che condanna l’ipocrisia degli aristocratici ma, rispettoso delle convenzioni della società vittoriana, anche l’arrivismo dei parvenu e l’ambizione senza scrupoli di chi si ribella alla morale corrente.
- ISBN: 8811606306
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 928
Recensioni
Here I am, 54 years old, and for the very first time reading William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair . "Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero." I disagree with Thackeray. The 'Hero' of Vanity Fair is the steadfast and stalwart William Dobbin; of that there is no doubt. This novel is not the coming of Leggi tutto
Written in 1848, Vanity Fair is an excellent satire of English society in the early 19th Century. Thackeray states several times that it is a novel "without a hero", and at a couple of points tries to claim that Amelia, a good person but who inevitably comes across as rather wishy-washy, is the her
"But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no harm in saying, at the outset of our acquaintance, that she was a dear little creature. And a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most sombre sort that we are to have for
1. I liked the company of Thackeray who is breezy, ebullient and cynical about everyone’s motives. And he’s very confident too. He thinks he knows everything, although there’s not a word about how the poor live here, that’s not his subject. So he’s like the mid-19th century version of Tom Wolfe or J Leggi tutto
The author makes his presence known towards the end of the book. It was both eerie and uncanny. He kept breaking the fourth wall, then he conjured that apparition of his in one of the last chapters. Vanity Fair contains no real heroes. That was a fact that Thackeray himself stated, and who am I to di Leggi tutto
.اِمی با اندوه گفت: کاش به من محبت پیدا می‌کردند. همیشه با من سرد بودندجورج پاسخ داد: طفلکِ من، به تو هم اگر دویست هزار لیره داشتی، محبت پیدا می‌کردند. اینها را این‌جور بار آورده‌اند. جامعهٔ ما، جامعهٔ پول و پَله است. ما در میان صرافان و کَله‌گُنده‌هایِ بازارِ شهر زندگی می‌کنیم که لعنت بر همه‌شان با Leggi tutto
I realize that I'm not making friends here by only giving what is considered a masterful piece of literature what amounts to a "meh" review but that's really how I felt about this book. On a small scale, I thought the writing was too long-winded. This is not a fancy story and it could have been told Leggi tutto
Vanity Fair is a big surprise for me. I was expecting a story about the trial and tribulations of a couple of plucky lady friends what I discovered was a witty, satirical novel that made me laugh several times, engaged my attention always and even moving at times. On the surface Vanity Fair is a stor Leggi tutto
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero, William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. A novel that chronicles the lives of two women Leggi tutto
"Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?" Vanity Fair is perhaps less a place than a mindset of self-striving after that which generally remains elusive. Thackeray shows the fragility of status, wealth, and easy friendships based on a person's asse Leggi tutto
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