Chatterton (translated from English)
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Peter Akreyd (born 1949) is known for the Russian reader with his novels "Oscar Wilde,", "House of Doctor Di", "Elizabeth Cree" Process. He also became famous for his biographies to Blake, Dickens, TS. Eliota.
Roman "Chatterton" (1987) also sends us to the biographies of real persons - the poet suicide of the XVIII century Thomas Chatterston, the poet of the Victorian era of George Meredita, and the lines of their life are intertwined with the fictional storyline of Charles Wichwood, the poet of our days.
Akreyd projects into three different epochs the story of an unrecognized and lonely poetic talent, forcing the fate of his characters, then the case of the text of the literary reminiscences and fascinating the reader with pseudo-detective search. First of all, it is chase for the lost ancient, but the leitmotif of these searches is also a permanent question: what is the reality and fiction, what is true and false? In this regard, the theme of the plagiarism in the art and the topic of falsification is often flooded, i.e. "The plagiarism on the contrary," when the artist attributes his own creation to someone else"s genius. Perhaps not everyone will agree with those conclusions that make the heroes of the novel.
How does this require a genre of a pseudometective, reader expectations are deceived at the end, and the whole book has to rethink again, - but this must be, and the author, who obviously avoiding the final alignment of points over "i" and offering everyone independently deciding where the truth is
Roman "Chatterton" (1987) also sends us to the biographies of real persons - the poet suicide of the XVIII century Thomas Chatterston, the poet of the Victorian era of George Meredita, and the lines of their life are intertwined with the fictional storyline of Charles Wichwood, the poet of our days.
Akreyd projects into three different epochs the story of an unrecognized and lonely poetic talent, forcing the fate of his characters, then the case of the text of the literary reminiscences and fascinating the reader with pseudo-detective search. First of all, it is chase for the lost ancient, but the leitmotif of these searches is also a permanent question: what is the reality and fiction, what is true and false? In this regard, the theme of the plagiarism in the art and the topic of falsification is often flooded, i.e. "The plagiarism on the contrary," when the artist attributes his own creation to someone else"s genius. Perhaps not everyone will agree with those conclusions that make the heroes of the novel.
How does this require a genre of a pseudometective, reader expectations are deceived at the end, and the whole book has to rethink again, - but this must be, and the author, who obviously avoiding the final alignment of points over "i" and offering everyone independently deciding where the truth is
Author:
Author:Akreyd Peter
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Fiction
Series:
Series: Speculum Mundi
ISBN:
ISBN:5-7784-0108-6
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