Тэсс из рода д'Эрбервиллей

by Thomas Hardy, Александра Кривцова (Translator)

В романе английского писателя-реалиста Томаса Гарди "Тэсс из рода д'Эрбервиллей" (1891) рассказана история крестьянки, которую борьба за свое счастье приводит к преступлению и гибели на эшафоте. Образ Тэсс - один из самых поэтичных в английской литературе.
Томас Гарди выделяется среди писателей-современников страстностью и глубиной социальных обличений, глубоким демократизмом. Его творчество высоко ценил М.Горький.

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Published January 1, 1987

About the author

Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.

The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.

Excerpted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Darya Silman · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a tragic ending!

[Ann Chi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ох уж эта нелегкая институтская литературная программа. Нужно было прочитать в сроки.., но в целом понравилось, оставило некое приятное впечатление. И написано достаточно хорошо, что помогло мне продраться сквозь текст.