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James Fenimore Cooper nacque nel 1789 a Burlington, nel New Jersey. Sebbene la sua famiglia appartenesse all’aristocrazia terriera, il giovane Cooper, attratto dall’avventura, si arruolò nella Marina ove, in qualità di ufficiale, trascorse alcuni anni. La sua vocazione letteraria sopravvenne piuttosto tardi per quell’epoca, cioè verso i trent’anni. Dato l’addio alla navigazione, Cooper iniziò, quasi per scommessa, a scrivere un romanzo, Precaution (1820), che ottenne subito un certo successo. L’anno dopo uscì la sua seconda storia, La spia, e da quel momento l’ex ufficiale di marina decise di dedicarsi completamente a quello che aveva all’inizio considerato solo un passatempo, e diede libero sfogo alla sua potente immaginazione. I suoi romanzi, non troppo curati sul piano stilistico, avevano l’indubbio pregio di interpretare in senso epico la storia della giovane nazione americana: sentiva il bisogno – innanzitutto psicologico – di celebrare la sua fresca indipendenza e di rintracciarne le ragioni ideali. L’eroe più celebre di Cooper è proprio Nathaniel Bumppo, la personificazione dello “spirito di frontiera”. La sua vita è narrata in un ciclo che inizia con I pionieri (1823) e prosegue con l’opera qui pubblicata (1826), con La prateria (1827), La guida (1840) e L’uccisore di cervi (1841).
The last of the Mohicans. E-book. Formato Mobipocket ebook
EBOOK   9788892530461

The last of the Mohicans. E-book. Formato Mobipocket James Fenimore Cooper   -  Simone Vannini, 2015  - 

It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes. Still there is so much obscurity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful.Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste. These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opinion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bones have a very striking indication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not. Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it can have produced the substantial difference which exists in the latter. The imagery of the Indian, both in his poetry and in his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and perhaps improved, by the limited range of his practical knowledge. He draws his metaphors from the clouds, the seasons, the birds, the beasts, and the vegetable world. In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.

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