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Bezig met laden... Don Juan (origineel 1826; editie 2014)door Lord Byron (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Bloody great book. I think a lot of people don't realize that as a poet/writer Byron was in a sense closer to 18th century satirists like, say, Swift than he was to his Romantic so-called cohorts ... and yet he's often considered some kind of "arch"-Romantic. Naah. His great talent, I'd say, was a comic one, and it's in Don Juan -- even unfinished as it is -- that this comic genius burns most brightly. It isn't just the funny-as-hell "Hudibrastic" rhymes he often employs, it's ... oh, hell, he was just such a funny damned bastard. Mean, spiteful, but funny. ( ) This was tremendous fun to read. Byron's personality infuses the work and he's a likable, open-hearted narrator. It's a picture of England just before the clouds of Victorian prudery turned love from a game to a chore. It also has a strong anti-war subtext that I wasn't expecting. A great read and a real surprise! It's been said (I can't remember by whom) that a great book should be read once in youth, once in middle age, and once in old age, just as a great building should viewed at dawn, in daylight, and at dusk. I first read Byron's Don Juan when I was 25 years old. It was a Penguin edition, and I remember being very swept away by Byron's sexually-charged romance. I had always thought of 19th century poets as being very, well, Victorian. "We shall talk about love but it must be chaste, innocent love. No sex please; we're Victorian". Byron had no such prudish streak. Don Juan is filled with passion and love in equal measure. It has a sensuality that would have horrified Byron's contemporaries, but which shows a profound respect for love, sex, and women that was unheard of during his own era. Now, as I'm closer to middle age then youth, I'm looking forward to revisiting Byron's Don and see if any of my perceptions have changed.
In spite of its romantic trappings Don Juan is as "true" as anything by Maupassant or Chekhov or Somerset Maugham, and the reason is Byron's infallible sense, as his style matured, for the immediacy of a situation and of those taking part in it. In the midst of Eastern local color, which could be as vapid as Lalla Rookh, the oriental tales in verse by his friend Thomas Moore, he has a Shakespearean sureness for the touch that makes all live... Wherever Juan goes, even into the kitchen where he sees "cooks in motion with their clean arms bare," his creator seizes on the vital impression. Though Byron in fact corrected lavishly, and had second or third thoughts like any other writer, it remains true of him, as he said, that when composing he was like a tiger, which if it misses its first spring goes growling back to the jungle. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Clube de Literatura Clássica (CLC) (42 [October 2023]) Doubleday Dolphin (C64) Modern Library (24.3) — 4 meer Is opgenomen inBevatHeeft als een commentaar op de tekstHeeft als studiegids voor studentenErelijsten
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HTML: In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women, rather than as a dangerous womanizer. When the first two cantos were anonymously published in 1819, they were criticized for being immoral. They were also immensely popular. Byron only completed 16 cantos, leaving the 17th unwritten when he died in 1824. Don Juan is commonly considered to be his masterpiece. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)821.7Literature English English poetry 1800-1837, romantic periodLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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