The way of all flesh
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The way of all flesh
39.99 €
In English literature of the second half of the XIX century Samuel Butler (1835-1902) has a prominent place. In the genre of fantastic grotesque, he revived the Swiftian tradition, and in the genre of the novel of upbringing he anticipated the trends that fully developed in the European psychological prose of the XX century.
When creating the “Way of All Flesh” with inconceivable candor for that time, the writer used personal life experience. Autobiography gives his story a special sharpness. The novel traces the formation of character and spiritual formation of the son of a priest. Before the reader there are pictures of the sad, crippled by the arbitrariness of the educators of the childhood of the main character, full of deprivations and disappointments of youth and, finally, maturity - the pores when he finds himself in creative work, writing. The author’s great erudition and masterful command of the word allow him to skillfully weave biblical, Shakespearean and other classical quotations and allusions into the fabric of the narrative and in the speech of the heroes, very often presenting them so that familiar, common phrases begin to shine with new colors. No less elegant are the writer’s own paradoxes and allegories. The skillful combination of all these techniques allowed to create one of the best Victorian novels, where original philosophical reflections coexist with bright genre scenes, and striking satire and caustic irony with soft, purely English humor.
When creating the “Way of All Flesh” with inconceivable candor for that time, the writer used personal life experience. Autobiography gives his story a special sharpness. The novel traces the formation of character and spiritual formation of the son of a priest. Before the reader there are pictures of the sad, crippled by the arbitrariness of the educators of the childhood of the main character, full of deprivations and disappointments of youth and, finally, maturity - the pores when he finds himself in creative work, writing. The author’s great erudition and masterful command of the word allow him to skillfully weave biblical, Shakespearean and other classical quotations and allusions into the fabric of the narrative and in the speech of the heroes, very often presenting them so that familiar, common phrases begin to shine with new colors. No less elegant are the writer’s own paradoxes and allegories. The skillful combination of all these techniques allowed to create one of the best Victorian novels, where original philosophical reflections coexist with bright genre scenes, and striking satire and caustic irony with soft, purely English humor.
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