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Nel 1898 gli Stati Uniti dichiarano guerra alla Spagna per il controllo dei Caraibi e del Pacifico, e Stephen Crane è già un classico della letteratura. Ha ventisette anni e la tubercolosi che lo ucciderà in meno di due. Approda a Cuba come corrispondente, per raccontare l’azione da vicino: nella foresta che fischia di mille proiettili, sul mare che si alza al colpo della cannoniera. I cablogrammi che invia dal fronte diventano la materia prima per la stesura di undici racconti da cui Ernest Hemingway prenderà a piene mani. In cui il realismo esasperato della battaglia cede volentieri il passo al grottesco, quando si dà conto delle disfunzioni dell’esercito, della mediocrità dei colleghi cronisti, del nazionalismo a tutti i costi. Fino alle pagine superlative che descrivono i marines feriti; e mostrano quel che attraversa un essere umano che considera la morte.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. E-book. Formato Mobipocket ebook
EBOOK   9788822833372

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Stephen Crane   -  Simone Vannini, 2016  - 

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him.His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was writhing in the delivery of great, crimson oaths."Run, Jimmie, run! Dey'll get yehs," screamed a retreating Rum Alley child."Naw," responded Jimmie with a valiant roar, "dese micks can't make me run."Howls of renewed wrath went up from Devil's Row throats. Tattered gamins on the right made a furious assault on the gravel heap. On their small, convulsed faces there shone the grins of true assassins. As they charged, they threw stones and cursed in shrill chorus.The little champion of Rum Alley stumbled precipitately down the other side. His coat had been torn to shreds in a scuffle, and his hat was gone. He had bruises on twenty parts of his body, and blood was dripping from a cut in his head. His wan features wore a look of a tiny, insane demon.On the ground, children from Devil's Row closed in on their antagonist. He crooked his left arm defensively about his head and fought with cursing fury. The little boys ran to and fro, dodging, hurling stones and swearing in barbaric trebles.

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