The Egoist

А Comedy in Narrative

George Meredith

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Добро
Забележка:: Забележки по корицата, следи от четене, няколко закъсани листа (не пречи на четенето).
Език:: Английски и Руски
Наличност:: 1 бр. - в това състояние и цена в този щанд. Други екземпляри от книгата

За изданието

Издателство:: Foreign Languages Publishing House
Град на издаване:: Moskow
Година:: 1962 г.
Език:: Английски и Руски
Страници:: 672
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: Чужда проза

Sir Willoughby Patterne, rich, fashionable and fatuous, is "The Egoist". He pursues three women, each more discerning than he, with little thought for anything but the fulfillment of his own desires and the gratification of his vanity that will come from a prestigious marriage. Clara Middleton is one of the three, but she will not be dominated by a man and is determined to assert her own value and values. Meredith's aim was to create a comedy, and there is indeed much to laugh at in this superbly comic tale. Yet with an impressive variety of skills, he satirises many of the assumptions that prevailed in his time. Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed ... He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. He develops to their logical extremity his ideas on egoism, on sentimentality and on the power of comedy. Meredith saw egoism as the great enemy of truth, feeling and progress, and comedy as the great dissolver of artifice. The Egoist is the extreme expression of his recurrent theme: the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy.

Ключови думи: английска литература, роман, Джордж Мередит, егоизъм