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Chargement... Autobiographie (1959)par Mark Twain
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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. Sono partito molto carico, e Twain non mi ha deluso. Poi, nell'ordine (a) le digressioni economiche (b) la villa di Quarto e le sue funeste nostalgie (c) il fatto che e' uscita in questi giorni l'autobiografia *completa* con alcune parti qui non comprese (d) il fatto che anche l'ultima discendente di Twain sia scomparsa da questa terra 50 anni fa circa, con un cocktail di pillole ed alcool (e) alcuni passaggi sentimentali. Tutto cio', dicevo, ha appesantito la lettura, e me ne dispiaccio, perche' ho apprezzato la traduzione, gli argomenti, il narratore. Quest'ultimo, seppur prolisso, mi induce sempre un lieto e costante sorriso, indimenticabile. *** Aggiornamento 28/09/14 E poi oggi mi accorgo che in casa ho un'altra copia del libro, letto nell'aprile del 2000. This is a great time travel book, and by the end it is also one of the most heartfelt intimate memoirs I've read. It has an open direct intimate feel to it all through, like reading letters from an unselfconscious old friend. He seems to have written a few pages at a time as stories occurred to him, which makes it a good book for dipping into. I read it as a bedside book, and it always kept me awake a little too long. Stories about his youthful adventures with crazy friends and business partners;his fairly barbaric Tom Sawyer childhood with reflection on his character development as he aged; stories about his absolutely adored wife and 3 daughters; his intense guilt over the death of his baby son; transcribed comments on his personality from his young daughter who clearly took after him; Why I Loved Minstrel Shows (well, it's some insight); his adventures in publishing; his investments; and his final losses. The last piece was written four months before his death. I'd give this 4.5 stars if I could. Incredibly humorous and charming, as is natural of Twain. Very many interesting anecdotes about his life and encounters with the figures of his time. Many timeless observations throughout. Also a refreshing format for a biography, he just talks about whatever pleases him at the time. The only problem is for such an enormous book, I was expecting a lot more which was devoted to the actual autobiography. The scraps and notes are still worth looking at, though.
"Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous — that’s the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading “Huck Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” in high school. But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century after his death, a very different Twain emerges, more pointedly political and willing to play the role of the angry prophet. " Est en version abrégée dansContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantDistinctionsListes notables
"Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it--style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy." --From the Introduction by Charles Neider Mark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story--which includes sixteen pages of photos--with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to he "free and frank and unembarrassed" in the recounting of his life and his experiences. Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Not the best. I'll stick to his fiction. ( )