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Servitori del tempo antico
Traduzione di T. Verdieri.Torino, 2004; br., pp. 112, cm 14x21. (L'Amourfou. 5). I domestici formavano, nella Russia dell'Ottocento, una vasta categoria portieri, lacché, camerieri personali, governanti, cocchieri, riempivano le dimore della nobiltà e della borghesia. Ivan Gonciarov li osservò attentamente negli anni in cui scriveva il suo capolavoro, "Oblomov", e le note che redasse gli fornirono poi la materia di questa serie di ritratti, ispirati insieme a un disincantato realismo e a una benevola ironia. I servi di casa sono per Gonciarov il "popolo", la sua esperienza dei ceti inferiori della società. Ma anche qualcosa di più i testimoni di un tempo antico, della famiglia, dell'infanzia perduta; e nella sua vita affettiva una sorta di figure di genitori.
109 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2004
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About the author
Ivan Goncharov
281 books499 followersRussian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (/ˈɡɒntʃəˌrɔːf, -ˌrɒf/; Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в), best known for his novels
A Common Story
(1847),
Oblomov
(1859), and
The Precipice
(1869). He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.
Goncharov was born into the family of a wealthy merchant, elevated as a reward for military service of his grandfather to gentry status. A boarding school, then the Moscow college of commerce, and finally Moscow State University educated him. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the governor of Simbirsk before moving to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as government translator and private tutor, while publishing poetry and fiction in private almanacs. People published A Common Story , first novel of Goncharov, in Sovremennik in 1847.
Goncharov's second and best-known novel Oblomov was published in 1859 in Otechestvennye zapiski. His third and final novel The Precipice was published in Vestnik Evropy in 1869. He also worked as a literary and theatre critic. Towards the end of his life Goncharov wrote a memoir called An Uncommon Story, in which he accused his literary rivals, first and foremost Ivan Turgenev, of having plagiarized his works and prevented him from achieving European fame. The memoir was published in 1924. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among others, considered Goncharov an author of high stature. Anton Chekhov is quoted as stating that Goncharov was "...ten heads above me in talent."
Goncharov was born into the family of a wealthy merchant, elevated as a reward for military service of his grandfather to gentry status. A boarding school, then the Moscow college of commerce, and finally Moscow State University educated him. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the governor of Simbirsk before moving to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as government translator and private tutor, while publishing poetry and fiction in private almanacs. People published A Common Story , first novel of Goncharov, in Sovremennik in 1847.
Goncharov's second and best-known novel Oblomov was published in 1859 in Otechestvennye zapiski. His third and final novel The Precipice was published in Vestnik Evropy in 1869. He also worked as a literary and theatre critic. Towards the end of his life Goncharov wrote a memoir called An Uncommon Story, in which he accused his literary rivals, first and foremost Ivan Turgenev, of having plagiarized his works and prevented him from achieving European fame. The memoir was published in 1924. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among others, considered Goncharov an author of high stature. Anton Chekhov is quoted as stating that Goncharov was "...ten heads above me in talent."
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September 23, 2020
Questo volume presenta tre racconti e li accomuna l'idea di letteratura come strumento di vita sociale, più che creazione d’arte. Gončarov ammalia il lettore grazie a "una lingua e uno stile classici, attraverso il suo temperamento romantico, temprato dalla sua volontà realistica”. Questi elementi sono uniti al tono leggero della narrazione, creando una lettura piacevole ma allo stesso tempo profonda.
Da leggere e rileggere.
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