The Invention of Love - Brossura

Stoppard, Tom

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802135811 ISBN 13: 9780802135810

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 1998

Riassunto

It is 1936 and A.E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene.
On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder Housman confronts his younger self, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson - the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. As if a dream, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and passion displaced into poetry and the study of classical texts. The author of A Shropshire Lad lived almost invisibly in the shadow of the flamboyant Oscar Wilde, and died old and venerated - but whose passion was truly the fatal one?

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It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's new play connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is: preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the elder Housman confronts: his younger self, the flamboyant Wilde, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson -- the handsome, athletic, and wholly heterosexual classmate who could not return his affection. Housman reflects on a life spent alone, first as a patent office clerk, and then as a renowned classics scholar, burying his passion in his poetry. As if a dream, The Invention of Love travels through Housman's life -- a struggle with unrequited love and his passion for dead texts -- and asks, Which is more fatal: intellect or emotion?

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• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0802135811
• ISBN 13: 9780802135810
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 102