Реалистите

by C.P. Snow, Чарлс Пърси Сноу, Мариана Неделчева (Translator)

Стендал, Балзак, Дикенс, Достоевски, Толстой, Галдос, Хенри Джеймс, Пруст… Осем от най-големите майстори на художественото слово в световната литература, видяни през погледа на известния английски писател, лауреат на Международната Димитровска награда, Ч. П. Сноу, който се е учил от тях, възхищавал се е от таланта им и все пак може да говори обективно, без да скрива техните човешки слабости и увлечения.

Genres: Literature, Criticism, Literary Criticism

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Known British scientist Charles Percy Snow, baron Snow of Leicester, wrote especially his 11-volume series Strangers and Brothers (1940-1970).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._P._Snow

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like F. L. Lucas's In Search of Good Sense, which I reviewed a few days ago. This is a book of short biographies, interspersed with analysis, of eight19th century realists: Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Benito Perez Galdos, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Stendhal, and Leo Tolstoy.

What I find interesting is that C.P. Snow is not a bad realistic novelist himself, and most of his mini-biographies are quite readable, particularly the ones of Balzac, Dostoyesky, and Henry James. I have read multiple works by each of the writers named in The Realists: Portraits of Eight Novelists: Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Galdos, Henry James, Proust, so my aim in reading the book was to decide whether to re-read any of their works, or select new titles.

Like all books of this sort (and I include the Lucas), more is to be found in the details than in the introductions or conclusions.

[Paul H. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shallow, but charmingly so. My main takeaway is that Tolstoy was a dick (seriously), which makes his novels all the more surprising.

[Mahdi Khalil Nejad · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Priya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty decent write-ups of the "better known" realists, and with a prose that makes the reading quite enjoyable.