The Storm: Translated by Constance Garnett - Brossura

Ostrovsky, Alexander

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571246680 ISBN 13: 9780571246687

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2009

Riassunto

One of Ostrovsky's most poetical works, The Storm is set in Kalinov, a provincial town on the banks of the Upper Volga. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Katerina is tormented by her widowed mother-in-law, Marfa Kabanova. Katerina seeks solace in an affair with a similarly tormented young lover, and the confession of this affair to her husband leads ultimately to tragedy. The Storm was a great success on its first performance the Maly Theatre, Moscow, in November 1859, and continues to be critically regarded as one of Ostrovsky's best plays. It inspired Janacek's opera Katia Kabanova.

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Aleksandr Nicolaevich Ostrovsky (1823 - 1886) is considered by many to be the father of Russian drama. Born into a merchant family, he abandoned his study of law to become a clerk in Moscow's Commercial court. His upbringing and experiences as a young civil servant informed his blisteringly real and sardonically funny accounts of the life of Russia's merchant class which, in turn, led to his dismissal from government service. He wrote forty prose and eight verse plays, several of which inspired operas by composers including Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Leo Janacek.

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0571246680
• ISBN 13: 9780571246687
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 130