La fiera delle vanità
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Tradotto da: Riccardo Mainardi
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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
- Data di uscita: 21-02-2019
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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
The premise I believe that Mr. William Makepeace Thackeray reveals here in his accomplished novel Vanity Fair is people are complex , yet still they strive for their own self- interest above everything, all else is irrevelant. Our Becky (Rebecca) Sharp is a prime example of this fact she goes too fa 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
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