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Sto caricando le informazioni... Tre uomini in barca: Tre uomini a zonzodi Jerome K. Jerome
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Decorative hardcover with insert Vad som skulle bli en vanlig reseguide blev en av världens roligaste romaner. Jerome K. Jeromes Tre män i en båt utspelar sig under två veckor längs med floden Themsen, från Kingston upon Thames i London, till Oxford och tillbaka. Berättelserna om de viktiga historiska platserna förlöses i en hejdlös komik, när J. och hans vänner, George och Carl, och J:s (påhittade) hund, Montmorency, ger sig ut på båtsemester. This isn’t as much a straight-up sequel to Three Men in a Boat as it is an excuse for Jerome to tear into a whole new range of satirical topics—but it still a sequel. It features the same characters, about ten years later, on another misguided but ultimately benign bout of tourism, and with about the same level of self-awareness as before. Less of the book takes place in Germany than I’d thought going in, and there Jerome focuses on “highlights” like the dog chasing a pig around a restaurant or the habit of German carters to fall asleep at the reins, rather than the day-to-day. Most of the rest of the book’s about the trio planning the trip and setting off, with digressions into other unfortunate past travel adventures, explanations for why things must be done a particular way, and generally exaggerating social foibles and expectations to poke fun at them. My favourite of these was probably the passage about how nobody is bike ads ever seems to be putting in any effort and how they were sexualized even then. My least favourite was probably the continued harping about how rule-abiding the Germans are, and how they’ll fine you for everything. But it’s still a fun story with much the same silliness and spirit of Three Men in a Boat, though. A lot of the humour’s still funny and relatable—running for public transit, language education that fails utterly, that guy who absolutely knows how to fix your vehicle but actually doesn’t—though there are bits that haven’t aged well. For some reason Jerome throws in a passage with a Black stereotype, he seems really into informing us how fat the Germans are, and some of his comments probably sounded great before the two World Wars. That sort of thing. But all in all, it’s an amusing book and a decent sequel, but it’s not a must-read. I definitely got a sense reading this that if it had been written today, it would’ve been somebody’s stand-up routine rather than a novel, and maybe that’s all you need to know, to know if you’ll like it. To bear in mind: May offend some Germans. May offend some English people. Almost certainly will offend fat people. Contains an exceptionally outdated word for Black people, and some parody dialogue for both Black and Scottish people, spelled-out dialect and all. (The Black one is notably worse, because of course it is.) 7/10 nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
All'interno della vastissima produzione narrativa, saggistica, teatrale di Jerome K. Jerome (circa sessanta opere), solo Tre uomini in barca (1889) e, in misura di poco minore, il suo seguito, Tre uomini a zonzo (1900), hanno goduto di una fama ininterrotta e universale. Osteggiato dalla critica seria del suo tempo, Jerome sopravvive e gode oggi di ottima salute anche nel nostro Paese (finora, la saga dei tre uomini ©· comparsa in Italia in almeno 25 traduzioni differenti). I segreti di Jerome sono tanti: la maestria e la variet© delle sue invenzioni umoristiche; il miracolo di un moralismo mai pedante, neppure quando ci pone dinanzi a uno specchio in cui riconosciamo istantaneamente le nostre follie quotidiane, il suo humour tanto proverbialmente inglese quanto ricco di una presa sanamente concreta ed epicurea sulla vita. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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