John Galsworthy (1867–1933)
Autore di La saga dei Forsyte
Sull'Autore
At age 28, after a gentlemanly education at Harrow and Oxford, and a training at law, Galsworthy settled into simultaneous careers as a novelist and a playwright. The Silver Box, Galsworthy's first successful drama, was staged in 1906, the year he published the first volume of what was to become mostra altro The Forsyte Saga. His one-word titles - Justice (1910), Strife (1909), Loyalties (1922)---suggest the nature of Galsworthy's artistic ambition: to generalize a social indictment, keeping faith with the objective methods of naturalism. In each, Galsworthy favors an austere irony and unresolvable situations, and balanced moral positions are displayed in the cabinetwork of "well-made" playwrighting. Reputed to have led to reforms in its time, his realism today seems contrived to produce aesthetic distance and a sense of resignation that is precisely what contemporary political dramatists strain hardest to avoid. Not surprisingly, critics have come away from revivals with the sense that (especially in his spare language) Galsworthy anticipates Harold Pinter rather than more socially engaged playwrights. Galsworthy wrote novels and plays alternately throughout his life. His masterwork, The Forsyte Saga, begun in 1906 and finished in 1928, and consisting of six separate novels and two linking interludes, is the most famous example of the sequence novel in English literature. It is a study of the property sense, the possessive spirit, in different individuals and generations of English middle-class society. He also completed a second trilogy dealing with the Forsyte family, called A Modern Comedy (1928). His last trilogy, a study of the Charwell family, is called End of the Chapter (1933). Galsworthy's later years brought him many honors, including the presidency of P.E.N. and honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and several other universities. After World War I, he was offered a knighthood, which he refused. He did, however, accept the Order of Merit in 1929, and in 1932 he was awarded the Nobel Prize. He was, however, too ill to attend the Nobel ceremony and died within two months of receiving the award. Although his posthumous reputation had waned, the centenary of his death, in 1967, brought a re-creation of The Forsyte Saga on British and American television in serial form. Interest in him skyrocketed, and the Forsyte novels again became bestsellers. With new popularity came fresh critical analysis. Pamela Hansford Johnson called The Forsyte Saga "a work of profound social insight and patchy psychological insight" (N.Y. Times). His critical writings include The Inn of Tranquility: Studies and Essays (1911) and Author and Critic. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin
Serie
Opere di John Galsworthy
Galsworthy Compact Edition : 6 Volume Set - The Forsyte Saga; The White Monkey; The Silver Spoon; Swan Song; Caravan;… (1929) 9 copie
Addresses in America: 1919 4 copie
Die Ersten und die Letzten . Ein Mann aus Devon — Autore — 4 copie
Concerning the Palming of Cards 3 copie
THE FORSYTE SAGA VOLUME II & III 3 copie
Justice and Other Plays (Tauchnitz Edition Collection of British and American Authors Vol. 4362) 3 copie
The Forsyte saga [DVD] 3 copie
Satires and a commentary 3 copie
The Burning Spear / Villa Rubein 3 copie
Silverskeden Forsytesagan 2 copie
Svanesång Forsytesagan 2 copie
Att Hyra Forsytesagan 2 copie
Landa in fiore. 2 copie
H3: IAppigionasi 2 copie
Den Vita Apan Forsytesagan 2 copie
Ancella 2 copie
Bojor Forsytesagan 2 copie
Новеллы 2 copie
[unidentified works] 2 copie
Four Forsyte Stories 2 copie
Ancella - Landa in fiore 1 copia
Kaasaegne komöödia 1 copia
Kaasaegne komöödia II 1 copia
Als dated Oct 11 1925 1 copia
O Proprietário 1 copia
Forsyte'ide saaga III 1 copia
Forsyte'ide saaga II 1 copia
Forsyte'ide saaga I 1 copia
Die Goldenen Äpfel 1 copia
Die Forsytes - Das Ende vom Lied 1 copia
Plays of John Galsworthy 1 copia
Hand to Earth 1 copia
Die forsyie saga 1 copia
FLOAREA INTUNECATA 1 copia
Forsyte Saga, The - 3 Vols. 1 copia
Plays of, The 1 copia
John Galsworthy: 7 Novels 1 copia
FORSYTE SAGA VOL3 1 copia
A Family Man and Other Plays 1 copia
Mai presus iubirea 1 copia
HThe IForsyte saga 1 copia
Denkwürdige Tage 1 copia
Os novos Forsyte 1 copia
Floarea întunecată 1 copia
La dinastia de los Forsyte 1 copia
Venkovské sídlo 1 copia
John Galsworthy: Meisternovellen 1 copia
FORSYTE SAGA VOL1 1 copia
FORSYTE SAGA VOL2 1 copia
Forsyte Saga, D7 1 copia
Forsytein taru. 2 1 copia
Modern Komédia 1-2 1 copia
A Forsyta- Saga l-ll-lll-lV. 1 copia
Der Menschenfischer 1 copia
Ikke av denne verden 1 copia
John Galsworthy Collection 1 copia
A stoic and the apple tree 1 copia
The Juryman 1 copia
Manna (in Law in Lit) 1 copia
Three tales 1 copia
Gesammelte Werke 1 copia
The Forsyte Saga/A Modern Comedy 1 copia
For love of beasts, 1 copia
The bells of peace 1 copia
Opere 1 copia
A Família Forsyte II Livro 1 1 copia
International Thought 1 copia
Flor sombria 1 copia
John Galsworthy - A Bit O' Love: "A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of… (2017) 1 copia
Dincolo 1 copia
Forsytein taru 1 copia
Meisternovellen 1 copia
Quality,The Consummation 1 copia
On expression 1 copia
Denkwürdige Tage Novellen 1 copia
Opere correlate
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Collaboratore — 109 copie
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Collaboratore — 40 copie
Tales of the Wandering Jew: A Collection of Contemporary and Classic Stories (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies) (1991) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays: A Doll's House, Miss Julie, The Weavers, Mrs Warren's Profession, Three… (2010) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Best Legal Stories — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Reviewer, Volume II, Numbers 1-6 (October 1921-March 1922) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The Reviewer, Volume II, Number 4 (January, 1922) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
50 seltsame Geschichten — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Rosemary — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Galsworthy, John
- Altri nomi
- Sinjohn, John (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1867-08-14
- Data di morte
- 1933-01-31
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Cremated
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- brain tumor
- Luogo di residenza
- Bury, West Sussex, England, UK
- Istruzione
- New College, Oxford University (BA|1889)
Harrow School
Saugeen - Attività lavorative
- novelist
dramatist
playwright
barrister - Organizzazioni
- Lincoln's Inn (1890)
International PEN Club - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1932)
Utenti
Discussioni
Group Read: The Forsyte Saga in 2018 Category Challenge (Settembre 2021)
The Forsyte Saga in 18th-19th Century Britain (Dicembre 2017)
Group Read for August 2013: The Forsyte Saga in 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2013)
Recensioni
Liste
Five star books (1)
Best family sagas (12)
Unmarried women (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Books with Twins (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 307
- Opere correlate
- 71
- Utenti
- 10,580
- Popolarità
- #2,246
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 197
- ISBN
- 1,337
- Lingue
- 18
- Preferito da
- 25