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Chargement... Roderick Random (Penguin Classics) (original 1748; édition 1995)par Tobias Smollett (Auteur), David Blewett (Directeur de publication), David Blewett (Introduction)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Disinherited by his grandfather, Roderick Random leaves Scotland for London to become a naval surgeon. The novel was more interesting as a social document consciously and unconsciously revealing its period than as a story. I found a lot of it repetitive, especially parts that were obviously meant to be funny and probably were when it was published, but I can only take so many jokes involving somebody getting covered in piss or poo. Having read Peregrine Pickle, the novel Smollett wrote after this one, three years ago, I kind of realised that, like with Henderson and Herzog, I'd read these the wrong way around. Smollett made his name with Roderick Random and then went on to perfect his style with Peregrine in much the same way that Bellow did, not that I find Smollett anywhere near as engaging as Bellow. If you've ever read any picaresque novels, you've read Roderick Random. Interminable japes lead to misunderstandings, wheezes, a dice with death or two and enough characters that Dickens, 100 years later, had no shortage of inspiration. There's nothing particularly new here for the modern day reader, and if you want to distract yourself for a few hours, there's no harm in it. But, as with Peregrine, it does tend to go on a bit, although Peregrine goes on far, far longer than Roderick does. Plus there are some satirical and historical references that may fox our understanding today. The fact that the novel does travel overseas (or at least the characters literally do) means that there are some interesting diversions on the way. So, an important book for literature and one with some distracting adventures, but not one I'd urge you to rush out and read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Qui est Random? Un jeune Ecossais, de naissance avantageuse mais orphelin. Dote d'une solide education, intelligent a proportion, il partira pour Londres et apprendra la vie, en plein XVIIIe siecle, sous la forge des voyages. Successivement gueux, aide-chirurgien sur un vaisseau, poignardeur, domestique, poete et sodat, Random sera finalement rattrape par l'amour et la fortune dans un denouement magnifiquement complote par Smollett. Son style, comme ses personnages, ne s'embarrasse pas toujours de "precautions, d'education et de politesse". Smollett est un moraliste brutal, "contre la miserable et vicieuse economie du monde"."Si le romancier est cet homme qui promene un miroir le long d'un chemin, Smollett est le romancier parfait"! Jean GionoTobias George Smollett, ne en Ecosse et mort a Pise (1721-1771), n'a jamais cache qu'il s'etait inspire de l'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane pour ecrire Roderick Random et peindre "la friponnerie et les infirmites de la vie avec infiniment d'adresse et de sens". Qu'Andre Gide ait juge par certains cotes Roderick Random meilleur que son modele en dit long sur la puissance de ce deluge picaresque - en partie autobiographique. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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* Everyone calls this book a picaresque, but David Blewett, editor of my Penguin Classics edition, goes to great pains in his introduction to establish that it's not one.