Lingue

EDGAR ALLAN POE

He’s a precursor of surreal effects with his existential anxiety.
He’s the first American writer.
America doesn’t like him because he was a successful man and wasted his fortune.
Surrealist loved him for the absurdity in his tales that reflect real life.
Poe’s purpose was to catch the whole beauty in the pl...

Saltus Carbononis (latin)
Hagenau (tudesque)
Hainaut (franзais)
Hagine > Hainie

La Belgique
La Belgique, depuis peu, est une monarchie fйdйrale (3 etats regionaux) :
1- Flandre(s): Flandre Orientale+Flandre Occidentale+Anvers+Limbourg+nord de Bruxelles (langue nйerlandais)
2- Brabant (Wallonie): sud de Bruxelles (ar

• A personal code replaces values and religion (these were dead)
• Nature is cruel, indifferent, unjust
• Man has to fight to assert his identity

STEINBECK
Style
• Large use of symbolism (certain natural images are emblems of particular themes)
Characters
• Miserable outcasts, rejects of American society
Themes
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The first romantic writer was Jean Jack Rousseau.
It is the triumph of passions.
It’s the answer to Illuminism.
It’s characterized by a new conception of man and of the world.
The raison is the ruin of Man.
It’s based on everything is irrational and against raison.
Themes
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- emotions;
- dreams;
- nature;
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Slim
jerkline skinner, local authority

Carlson (Carl)
a ranchhand

Curley's wife
a tart, tease
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Whit
a young laborer at the ranch

Bill Tenner
former pea cultivator operator at the ranch

Susy
owns a house in town; two-fifty a go

Clara
owns another house; three bu

Rosencrantz
cortigiano
Guildenstern
cortigiano
Osrico
cortigiano
Un sacerdote
Marcello
ufficiale dell'esercito danese
Bernardo
ufficiale dell'esercito danese
Francesco
soldato danese
Un capitano dell'esercito norvegese
Ambasciatori d'Inghilterra
Attori d'una compagnia girovaga
Un buffone~~~

The police arrive soon and don’t let anybody to go away except the men whom fired him. The protagonist returns the day after and he’s informed by the host that the police has uncovered that inside the spray-gun there was some eau de Cologne: the poor man wanted only to joke but people misunderstood this. Moreover the police haven’t found the killer yet

- In Brazil Robinson works hard, then he buys plantation and becomes a rich man in 4 years. He goes back to Guinea to buy negro slaves but shipwrecks near French Guyenne. The ship is stuck not far from the beach so R., the only survivor, builds a raft to get back to the beach all he can.
- He builds a shelter against beasts and savages. He sums up h

Darcy’s conceited behaviour. One day Jane goes and sees Mr. Byngley’ s family but she falls ill and she must remain there. Elisabeth, who loves her sister very much, goes to help her. When they came back home, they know some army officers, among which Mr. Wickham who seems very nice. Elisabeth talks with him and is told that he was Mr. Darcy’s childhoo

On The Road
Scritto fra il 1948 ed il 1951 , ma pubblicato solo nel 1957 , segna il periodo più prolifico di Kerouac ed il suo maggiore successo. On the road è un romanzo non convenzionale (non c'è un vero e proprio impianto narrativo). Divenne in breve tempo l'emblema della Beat Generation. I personaggi di On the road vivono come vagabondi , s