Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life - Brossura

O'Brien, Edna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393338479 ISBN 13: 9780393338478

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2010

Riassunto

"Mad, bad, and dangerous to Know."---Lady Caroline Lamb on Lord Byron.

Byron is a Mythic Figure---a man whose very name suggests wild rebellion and artistic frenzy. Indeed, he was a superb poet, an insatiable lover, and the epitome of the great artist who dies young. Now, with Byron in Love, acclaimed Irish novelist Edna O'Brien captures the essence of this destructive genius---from his surprising beginnings as the son of an impoverished Scottish heiress to his inheritance of his mad uncle's baronetcy, to his passionate stance in the Greco-Turkish conflict. Byron's obsession with the "other," both men and women alike, drove him nearly to madness and then to even greater artistic heights. This is an unwavering and intimate celebration of a man redeemed by the brilliance of his verse, the magnetism of his personality, and the heroism of his death.

"Her daring is to treat Lord Byron as an Edna O'Brien protagonist, handled with gentle sympathy and a detachment that yields to his prevenient self-irony. She gives us a kind of novella, told with the rapid, fervent pace of the noble lord narrating Don Juan."---Harold Bloom, New York Review of Books

"Now at last the sharp-voiced creator of modern Irish female life in all its plentitude and misery has come out holding hands in public with one of England's great Romantic poets and social rebels, celebrating the magnitude of his sins against English propriety, all of them in the name of love."---Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Edna O'Brien is the acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, including The Country Girls trilogy, and a biography of James Joyce. Universally recognized as one of our greatest novelists, she lives in London.

Product Description:

Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce, Edna O Brien has written a jaunty (The New Yorker) biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron from the dissipations of Regency London to the wilds of Albania and the Socratic pleasures of Greece and Turkey, culminating in his meteoric rise to fame at the age of twenty-four. With a novelist s understanding of tempo and characterization (Miami Herald), O Brien captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait that explodes the Romantic myth. Byron, as brilliantly rendered by O Brien, is the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, and defiantly immortal.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0393338479
• ISBN 13: 9780393338478
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 228