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At Heaven's Gate, Robert Penn Warren's second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1943, it grew out of the author's years in Nashville during a period of political and financial scandals much like those later so memorably portrayed his Pulitzer-Prize-winning All The King's Men . Other formative elements, as he has said, came originally out of Dante by a winding path." During the winter of 1939-40 in Rome, where the first half of the book was written, one of the most touching characters, a "Christ-bit mountaineer," and his part of the story literally came full-blown to the author in a typhus-induced delirium. At Heaven's Gate is a novel of violence, of human beings struggling against a fate beyond their power to alter, of corruption, and of honor. It is the story of Sue Murdock, the daughter of an unscrupulous speculator who has created a financial empire in the South, and the three men with whom she tries to escape the dominance of her father and her father's world. The background is the capital of a Southern state in the late twenties and the promoters and politicians, the aristocrats and poor whites, the labor organizers and the dispossessed farmers, the backwoods prophets and university intellectuals who are drawn into its orbit. Warren's picture of the South is as fresh, dramatic, and powerful today as it was when the book was first published. Its plot structure is a tour de force. "… (altro)
War hero, football star, banker, alcoholic, privileged daughter rejecting privilege, abortion, murder and evangelism, politics, labor unrest, academic snobbery, independence, aloofness, social yearning, ending with a bank failure. Fits in with 2008, very much a product of the Great Depression. Thinly veiled modeling of Sergeant York, in an unknown southern state that can only be Tennessee, "At Heaven's Gate" is very much a first novel. Lots of ideas, lots of structure, very good vignettes, and digression into post grad academic writing. This is practice for "All The King's Men." ( )
Il cielo aveva la lucentezza profonda, tranquilla del primo autunno.
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Ecco là il suo ritratto: le guance incavate sopra le mascelle arcigne, gli occhi infossati e torvi, il naso prepotente a becco e la cresta ispida dei capelli grigi, come un vecchio pappagallo.
At Heaven's Gate, Robert Penn Warren's second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1943, it grew out of the author's years in Nashville during a period of political and financial scandals much like those later so memorably portrayed his Pulitzer-Prize-winning All The King's Men . Other formative elements, as he has said, came originally out of Dante by a winding path." During the winter of 1939-40 in Rome, where the first half of the book was written, one of the most touching characters, a "Christ-bit mountaineer," and his part of the story literally came full-blown to the author in a typhus-induced delirium. At Heaven's Gate is a novel of violence, of human beings struggling against a fate beyond their power to alter, of corruption, and of honor. It is the story of Sue Murdock, the daughter of an unscrupulous speculator who has created a financial empire in the South, and the three men with whom she tries to escape the dominance of her father and her father's world. The background is the capital of a Southern state in the late twenties and the promoters and politicians, the aristocrats and poor whites, the labor organizers and the dispossessed farmers, the backwoods prophets and university intellectuals who are drawn into its orbit. Warren's picture of the South is as fresh, dramatic, and powerful today as it was when the book was first published. Its plot structure is a tour de force. "
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'Alle porte del cielo' scava profondamente nel tormentato campo della nostra vita contemporanea, e l'apparente enigma del titolo è indicativo del sordo travaglio che consuma, nell'attuale fase di sviluppo, la civiltà del mondo moderno. I personaggi di questa complessa vicenda, così mossi, balzanti, e nettamente individuati, sono ciascuno altrettanti nuclei di un'intensa vita drammatica. Cercano, a modo loro, l'evasione e la salvezza. Una instancabile aspirazione li spinge verso l'eterna meta che essi avvicinano senza mai raggiungere, e le loro sorti simili e divergenti concludono nel fallimento oscuro di un'esistenza mancata. ma la potente originalità di questo romanzo, surreale e concreto, che tanti elementi fonde felicemente della nostra precaria cultura, è dovuta soprattutto all'arte mirabile dell'Autore (premio Pulitzer 1948), che ha saputo rappresentare, nelle creature della sua fantasia, come immagini in uno specchio fedele, il senso dei segreti e urgenti aneliti che sospingono l'umana coscienza odierna verso l'irraggiungibile, invisibile soglia del Mistero.
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