Hello readers and readers:) You have a good start this new week, or are oppressed by a rainy like me?
Today I want to tell you about a book published by the publishing house Gargoyle which will be available in bookshops from March 16 : it's revenge! Marie Corelli, queen of the Victorian bestseller.
The destruction of an illusion is it not worse than the illusion itself?
Author: Marie Corelli
Pages: 345 , paperback
Price: € 15.00
Release Date: March 16 2011
Plot: In 1884 the city of Naples is in the grip of a cholera epidemic, the aristocratic Roman Fabio accidentally falls ill and believed dead, he hastily buried in the family crypt. But the count is alive and ridestatosi, manages to escape from the dismal place on the strength of despair. He returned home to his wife, the beautiful Nina, and his best friend, the amateur painter Guido Ferrari, he discovers a truth that would want to know, so deciding to change its identity and to implement a terrible nemesis.
try to learn more about this novel, I remind you that the translation made by Monica Meloni is the first Italian translation this title!
Revenge! (1886) is, together with Wormwood (1890) and Ziska (1897) trilogy markedly more terrifying gothic-Marie Corelli, a writer of great versatility, which is engaged with different aspects - from sci-esoteric (the trilogy The Romance of Two Words , 1886, Thelma , 1887, Goog God's Man , 1904) to the mystical and fantasy. The novel presents itself, first as a confession of the protagonist of the story, Count Fabio Romani, on the other as his invective. In the confession, the Count, who is also the narrator, he lays bare before the reader in a face to face, albeit cynical and ironic, is not immune to the pain of his disillusionment: the crimes of which you are spotted was the result of a vendetta which has become inevitable in order to recover self-respect and restore a sense of justice otherwise lost forever. Invective, Fabio rails against humanity in general and against women, in particular, in this apparent misogyny, Corelli is as if he meant to put a distance between himself and his female sex is not investigating the deep but simply due to a mere objectifying reprobation. The author grasps the reader to page through a narrative that, without developing a real thriller , some overflows suspense until the end, revealing a very solid system for quality of staging - the wonderful performances of such mass the crowding of the common people "singing", the banquets, the duels - and emblematic of the players: Fabio on the one hand, initially naive and then mild in the grip of a ruthless coldness, on the other Guido, joyful and bold rogue, in the middle of Nina " of yesteryear bitch" by the cruel frivolity. Gothic novel, then? Yes, but feuilleton - with ascents and misfortunes, recognitions, unhappy love, intrigue and betrayal - and melodrama, marked by irreconcilable conflicts that underlie opposing universes of value, and punctuated by a constant deprecatio temporum not discounted in the arguments.
The author
Born illegitimate union between Elizabeth Mills and the Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, also known as a poet and songwriter, early thirties Mary Mackay ( London 1855 - Stratford-on-Avon1924) you created a new identity and turn into Marie Corelli " daughter of a mysterious Italian count. To increase the mystery about its new character - one of the most eccentric of England at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century - the writer rarely allowed himself to take pictures, speaking of himself as a "blonde Italian beauty." Its amazing adventure begins with a literary and publishing novels The Romance of Two Words and Vengeance - The Story of One Forgotten , both of 1886, the total Corelli published 31 titles, of which the most popular, The Sorrows of Satan (1895), his death had reached the 60 reprints, inspiring film of the same name David W. Griffith, in 1926. Twenty years thereafter, Marie Corelli came to sell even 100,000 copies a year, becoming the queen of the bestseller of the late-Victorian and Edwardian England, surpassing the popularity of authors like HG Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle, and attracting envy and vigorous dislikes, such as those of Joseph Conrad and Mark Twain. Besides being popular with real English, primarily by Queen Victoria, were also admirers of Corelli Margherita di Savoia and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, the impressive number of readers but also the author of London was formed by members of the nobility Read (the poet Alfred Tennyson), class politics (WE Gladstone, Randolph Churchill) and the clergy - his works, often in line with the religious conformity at the time, was quoted in Sunday sermons - as well as by workers, soldiers and committed to the front, the latter thanked for relief achieved with the letter of his novels. Marie Corelli's success went beyond the boundaries of the United Kingdom, as his novels were popular in the rest of Europe, and in the English colonies.
Since 1920 the books of Corelli began to look dated, and his reputation to tarnish. Critics (except for Rebecca West and Leonard Woolf) received no support since she was always adverse, reproaching conventionality of the issues - big issues in vogue in his time as the relationship between faith and science, spiritualism, transcendence - the primitiveness of the ingredients that fleshed out his plots - blood and sentimentality incendiary passions - el'ampollosità style.
a little over a decade, the academy has begun to deal with the writer, the sign of a critical approach rigorously argued and contextualised, devoid of the many prejudices that have burdened by too much time on his work. In spite of the criticism received by his contemporaries in abundance, the contribution of Corelli is now considered a key reason to understand the literary values, the hegemony of class, gender conflicts that characterized the late nineteenth century European culture against the backdrop of an ever-changing publishing market.
Marie Corelli never married: "I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home and behave as a husband, a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that says bad words all afternoon and a cat that falls late in the evening. " During his education in Paris, the writer met Bertha Vyver, more than a year. In their early twenties, the two friends went to living together, staying together until the death of Mary, who left all his property to Bertha. Although not stated never Corelli lesbian, biographers and critics have frequently pointed out how, in his novels, the descriptions of female beauty suggests a transport almost sensual, and as the heterosexual love were often dashed by what feeling pathological aspects. Marie and Bertha are buried near Stratford-on-Avon, where they lived since 1901 while residing in the charming "Mason Croft" - purchased by the writer at the height of its popularity - it was the home of Vyver until his death in 1942 , and is now the Institute of Shakespearean studies University of Birmingham.
In the city of the famous playwright, the Corelli (who was as rich as a rock star of today) contributed to the restoration of the beautiful buildings of the sixteenth and seventeenth century facades features, saving it from demolition and earning the trust of a large part of the population (not all the people looked for his coming by, worried that the presence of what was once the most famous writer of the moment could tarnish the reputation of the Bard).
A "Mason Croft, Marie received a great deal, welcoming distinguished guests such as actress Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry, the singer Adelina Patti, Ada Crossley and Clara Butt, the writer Florence Barclay, the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the painter Francis Benson, Mark Twain, as well as foreign dignitaries and politicians from South Africa, Australia and the United States.
The writer used to go out, adorned with roses, for excursions on the river Avon in a gondola. The gondola (it seems also equipped gondolier) if the Corelli was brought there from Venice, to replicate the atmosphere of the Italian city, a source of endless fascination for her.
The website dedicated www.mariecorelli.org , opened in 2004, you can find an interesting bio-bibliographical directory, together with portraits and pictures of the original editions.
The book, which will be released on memory March 16 and is published by Gargoyle, also contains an afterword, written by Charles Pagett, entitled "A carnival of death: the Neapolitan opera by Marie Corelli" here is an excerpt:
You could say that Marie Corelli gives new meaning to the term "popular novel "and that even today, perhaps without realizing it, many British writers - not just British - are inspired by him histrionic, and his taste for the show in brilliant colors, into which - as happens in Revenge! - the bombast of the nineteenth-century melodrama, the Italian setting related to a literary tradition that extends from Elizabethan England to the eighteenth-century Gothic, the rhetoric of a drama that reworked the scenario of a contemporary world where extreme violence of the passions, the unbridled splendor of wealth, the apocalyptic collapse of moral values, seem to disintegrate any ideological assumption or aesthetic discourse ...
Also here is a surprise for you: you can read a preview of some lines of this interesting novel!
'[...] what is immoral, after all? Nothing but a matter of opinion. Take the stereotype of virtue and marital fidelity. After all, what is it for? What door? Why should a man be tied to one woman, when she has enough love to be able to meet twenty? The pretty, slender girl whom he chose as companion nell'impulsività of youth may have become a horror of a woman, fat, vulgar, ruddy, when he has reached full manhood, and yet, until she is alive, the law maintains that ' high tide of passion must flow in one direction, always on the same beach tedious, flat and useless! The law is absurd, but it exists and, as a natural consequence, we will break them. The company pretends to be horrified when we do, yes, I know, but it's all a farce. "
Finally, two famous comments about this volume:
Although deride habit, I find his books fascinating and utterly engaging.
Henry Miller
A fairy that shakes the world imbued with a magic wand ink.
Robert Hitchens
E 'was a bell'approfondimento not you think? Personally I am very intrigued by this book, I am surprised that has not been published before!
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