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Il Giovane Re: Edizione integrale. Con testo originale a fronte.
Il Giovane Re è tratto dalla raccolta La casa dei melograni , una raccolta di racconti scritti da Oscar Wilde nel 1891. Questa sua seconda raccolta, scritta dopo Il Principe Felice ed altri Racconti (The Happy Prince and Other tales), dedicata ai suoi due figli Cyril e Vyvyan, è altrettanto bella stilisticamente e molto simile nelle tematiche. Può essere considerata una sua naturale continuazione.
Il Giovane Re, in effetti, è un racconto sicuramente molto godibile come lettura “leggera”, ma nasconde, come è abitudine negli scritti di Oscar Wilde, qualcosa di più.Una critica alla morale vittoriana, ipocrita e vacua; alla totale assenza di umanità delle persone, sempre pronte a sfruttare i più deboli incuranti delle conseguenze, talvolta anche mortali e più interessati alla forma più che alla sostanza, più che all'uomo. Qui Wilde propone, invece, un'alternativa. Propone una via diversa. Propone una chiave di lettura morale anche se, forse, irrealizzabile in quel tempo perché anche chi è vessato è talmente abituato ad essere sfruttato che forse non è capace di vedere il mondo in maniera differente.
Nonostante questo per la sua semplicità è e rimane un libro adatto anche ai più piccoli, parlando di sentimenti, di compassione e di amore, di fatto è un libro molto piacevole anche per chi non abbia la malizia per volersi addentrare in tematiche più speculative e profonde o per chi voglia leggere il racconto semplicemente come una storia, la storia di un giovane re che si prepara alla sua incoronazione.
Un racconto breve ma profondo, che sicuramente vale la pena leggere, e che merita ampiamente il tempo dedicato nella sua lettura.
Questa edizione italiana viene riporta non soltanto il testo originale a fronte, in modo da facilitarne una lettura in sinossi, ma anche delle note esplicative per l'approfondimento del testo, rendendolo un testo valido sia per lo svago di lettore che voglia godere della bellezza delle opere di Oscar Wilde, che un interessante supporto all'attività didattica.
Il Giovane Re, in effetti, è un racconto sicuramente molto godibile come lettura “leggera”, ma nasconde, come è abitudine negli scritti di Oscar Wilde, qualcosa di più.Una critica alla morale vittoriana, ipocrita e vacua; alla totale assenza di umanità delle persone, sempre pronte a sfruttare i più deboli incuranti delle conseguenze, talvolta anche mortali e più interessati alla forma più che alla sostanza, più che all'uomo. Qui Wilde propone, invece, un'alternativa. Propone una via diversa. Propone una chiave di lettura morale anche se, forse, irrealizzabile in quel tempo perché anche chi è vessato è talmente abituato ad essere sfruttato che forse non è capace di vedere il mondo in maniera differente.
Nonostante questo per la sua semplicità è e rimane un libro adatto anche ai più piccoli, parlando di sentimenti, di compassione e di amore, di fatto è un libro molto piacevole anche per chi non abbia la malizia per volersi addentrare in tematiche più speculative e profonde o per chi voglia leggere il racconto semplicemente come una storia, la storia di un giovane re che si prepara alla sua incoronazione.
Un racconto breve ma profondo, che sicuramente vale la pena leggere, e che merita ampiamente il tempo dedicato nella sua lettura.
Questa edizione italiana viene riporta non soltanto il testo originale a fronte, in modo da facilitarne una lettura in sinossi, ma anche delle note esplicative per l'approfondimento del testo, rendendolo un testo valido sia per lo svago di lettore che voglia godere della bellezza delle opere di Oscar Wilde, che un interessante supporto all'attività didattica.
108 pages, Paperback
Published November 15, 2019
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Oscar Wilde
5,489 books38.8k followersOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
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February 8, 2024
8/10
This was an Audiobook!
What an incredibly nice story, somehow even today parts of it are really up to date. What can a king do, against the world? How can the most powerful person in the country change what is going on in the world, how the economy is working and how people perceive reality? It is all about determination though, or at least, it is in this short novel, at the end of which the young king is crowned not by the people, not by nobility, not by the church, but by an even higher instance.
A really nice story to listen to, I am sure, reading it would be even better! Definitely recommended!
This was an Audiobook!
What an incredibly nice story, somehow even today parts of it are really up to date. What can a king do, against the world? How can the most powerful person in the country change what is going on in the world, how the economy is working and how people perceive reality? It is all about determination though, or at least, it is in this short novel, at the end of which the young king is crowned not by the people, not by nobility, not by the church, but by an even higher instance.
A really nice story to listen to, I am sure, reading it would be even better! Definitely recommended!
July 12, 2024
Racconto molto carino e profondo di un giovane re all'alba della sua incoronazione, che dovrà essere il mattino dopo alla vicenda.
Il giovane re non riesce a dormire e fa tre sogni, che lo riempiranno di ansia e preoccupazione su quanto è difficile governare un Paese ed essere giusto con i propri sudditi.
Tre sogni molto significativi e profondi.
Libro molto piacevole da leggere/ascoltare.
Il giovane re non riesce a dormire e fa tre sogni, che lo riempiranno di ansia e preoccupazione su quanto è difficile governare un Paese ed essere giusto con i propri sudditi.
Tre sogni molto significativi e profondi.
Libro molto piacevole da leggere/ascoltare.
May 28, 2023
(Audiolibro) Bel racconto di Oscar Wilde, con i buoni sentimenti protagonisti. Il giovane re, toccato dai suoi sogni, comprende l'errore d'essere troppo avido e viene incoronato da Dio.
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