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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890)di William Dean Howells
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A very good New York novel about the characters who emerge from the setting up of a literary and art fortnightly magazine sometime in the 1880's. Although there's barely a narrator worth mentioning to get in the way with annoying moralizing platitudes, the complete lack of action on the part of what could be called the protagonist constantly makes you want to shake him up. Act! Do something! Anything! In that way the main character resembles the narrator a fair bit: both are continuously aloof while watching, always watching, what happens from afar. Adam Gopnik's article "A Hazard of No Fortune" in the 2000 02 21 issue of the New Yorker put me on to this very enjoyable book, which he regards as a great American novel. "Instead of fussing about hunting whales or riding rafts or fighting wars...it contains something really epic: a guy in the magazine business looking for an apartment in Manhattan." Basi March, who allegorizes the neutral or objective viewpoint of "plain good sense," lives in Boston with his wife and children, but is persuaded by a man named Fulkerton to move to New York City and start a new magazine, which is named "Every Other Week." March attempts and fails to mediate heated disputes between a millionaire capitalist and a socialist; in the meantime, riots break out across the city, which is beautifully and extensively rendered in this novel, over labor inequities. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Set against a vividly depicted background of fin de siécle New York, this novel centers on the conflict between a self-made millionaire and a fervent social revolutionary-a conflict in which a man of goodwill futilely attempts to act as a mediator, only to be forced himself into a crisis of conscience. Here we see William Dean Howells's grasp of the realities of the American experience in an age of emerging social struggle. His absolute determination to fairly represent every point of view is evident throughout this multifaceted work. Both a memorable portrait of an era and a profoundly moving study of human relationships, A Hazard of New Fortunes fully justifies Alfred Kazin's ranking of Howells as "the first great domestic novelist of American life." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.4Literature English (North America) American fiction Later 19th Century 1861-1900Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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