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Bezig met laden... The Antiquary / Peveril of the Peak (1816)door Sir Walter Scott
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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. De oudheidkundige ontmoet op reis een jongeman die een prettige indruk op hem maakt. Er hangt wat geheimzinnigheid om deze Mr. Lovel. Hij heeft een groot aandeel in het redden van de baronet uit de buurt met zijn dochter van de verdrinkingsdood. Die baronet is dan wel van adel, maar zijn geldkist is praktisch leeg, en hij pakt alles aan om aan meer geld te komen. Zo valt hij in handen van een buitenlander die beweert te weten waar zich een goede mijn bevindt en later een schat in een ruïne. De oude bedelaar, die van huis tot huis en dorp tot dorp wandelt en overal hoort wat er gaande is, speelt een grote rol in het ontmaskeren van de buitenlander. En dan, zoals het gaat in een roman van Scott, komt er ook een groot en afschuwelijk geheim over de Earl aan het licht, en gelukkig komt het allemaal goed. Dat klinkt simpel, maar Scott weet er altijd weer een mooi verhaal van te maken. First published in 1816 in the aftermath of Waterloo, The Antiquary deals with the problem of how to understand the past so as to enable the future. Set in the tense times of the wars with revolutionary France, it displays Scott's matchless skill at painting the social panorama and in creating vivid characters, from the earthy beggar Edie Ochiltree to the loqacious and shrewdly humorous Antiquary himself. The text is based on Scott's own final, authorized version, the 'Magnum Opus' edition of 1829.
When we turn to The Antiquary we meet another side of Scott's talent; his humour. I wonder how many of those who, like myself, had not read Scott since their schooldays will recall that Scott is one of the great comic writers? It is not purely Scottish humour, depending on the canniness of the speaker or on a continuous sly, nervous snigger, or on the grotesque and pawky asides of dialect. Scott’s humour, like his best prose, is cross-bred with the English eighteenth century. Sterne and Fielding have put red blood into it. A character like Jonathan Oldbuck does not make thin jokes down his nose, but stands solidly and aglow beside all the well-found comics of our literature. The secret is that Scott’s animal spirits are high, as Fielding’s were... I can read about half of The Antiquary and enjoy the flavours of what I read. After that I skip through the preposterous plot and willingly leave the wooden Lovel and the disdainful Miss Wardour to the pleasure of talking like public statues to each other. In one respect it must be admitted they do surpass modern lovers. Severely regulated by their families and by circumstance, these antique couples are obliged to know their subject. The obstacles to love ensure that the lovers shall concentrate. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Waverley Novels (1795) Waverley Novels, publication (1816) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Everyman's Library (126) Is opgenomen inBevat
'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a young man, of genteel appearance, having occasion to go towards the north-east of Scotland, provided himself with a ticket in one of those public carriages which travel between Edinburgh and theQueensferry...'So begins Scott's personal favourite among his novels, in characteristically wry and urbane style, as a mysterious young man calling himself 'Lovel' travels idly but fatefully toward the Scottish seaside town of Fairport. Here he is befriended by the antiquary Jonathan Oldbuck, who has taken refugefrom his own personal disappointments in the obsessive study of miscellaneous history. Their slow unravelling of Lovel's true identity will unearth and redeem the secrets and lies which have devastated the guilt-haunted Earl of Glenallan, and will reinstate the tottering fortunes of Sir ArthurWardour and his daughter Isabella.First published in 1816 in the aftermath of Waterloo, The Antiquary deals with the problem of how to understand the past so as to enable the future. Set in the tense times of the wars with revolutionary France, it displays Scott's matchless skill at painting the social panorama and in creatingvivid characters, from the earthy beggar Edie Ochiltree to the loqacious and shrewdly humorous Antiquary himself.The text is based on Scott's own final, authorized version, the 'Magnum Opus' edition of 1829. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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