George Gissing eBooks

eBooks di George Gissing editi da Adrien Devret

George Gissing nasce a Wakefield (Regno Unito) nel 1857 da una famiglia della classe media. Dopo gli studi all’Owens College diventa un accademico, ma si innamora di Marianne, una prostituta. Questo incontro gli rovinerà la carriera e la vita. Anche con la seconda moglie non avrà fortuna. Lei sarà dichiarata pazza. Nel 1876 si trasferisce per sei mesi negli Stati Uniti, dove si guadagna da vivere scrivendo racconti brevi su quotidiani. Tornato in Inghilterra inizia a scrivere romanzi, tra cui Workers in the Dawn (1880), The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) e Le donne di troppo (1893). La reputazione di Gissing cresce sempre più: i critici lo collocano fra i tre migliori romanzieri dell’epoca insieme a Thomas Hardy e George Meredith. Muore nel 1903 a Ispoure, in Francia.
New Grub Street (Dream Classics). E-book. Formato EPUB ebook
EBOOK   9788826456478

New Grub Street (Dream Classics). E-book. Formato EPUB George Gissing   -  Adrien Devret, 2017  - 

The story is about the literary world of late-Victorian London that Gissing inhabited, and its title, New Grub Street, alludes to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with the "hack writing" that pervades Gissing's novel; Grub Street itself was no longer extant when Gissing was writing. The novel contrasts Edwin Reardon, a congenitally uncommercial but talented writer, against Jasper Milvain, a selfish and unscrupulous hack who rejects artistic endeavour for material gain. Milvain's trite, manipulative work ascends while Reardon's work--and his life--spiral downward.The novel suggests that the literary world rewards materialistic self-promotion more than serious artistic sensibility. Gissing's biography--a respected writer who struggled for a long time to obtain commercial success--strongly suggests the novel is autobiographical, the author's stand-in being (of course) Reardon.

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