La realtà in trasparenza. Lettere
Come era e come viveva nella realtà di tutti i giorni il creatore della Terra-di-Mezzo? Un volume denso di inedite testimonianze che guidano il lettore alla scoperta di un Tolkien inedito: giovane sognatore nel 1916, appassionato scrittore nel 1934, professore serissimo e scrupoloso, con il dono di saper leggere la realtà in trasparenza. Una vita straordinaria, nella quale si coglie la magia della poesia.
Biography & AutobiographyLiterary FiguresLiterary CollectionsLetters
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERBompiani
LENGTH517
LANGUAGEIT
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent "counter-culture" largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone's, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK's leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html
La realtà in trasparenza. Lettere
Come era e come viveva nella realtà di tutti i giorni il creatore della Terra-di-Mezzo? Un volume denso di inedite testimonianze che guidano il lettore alla scoperta di un Tolkien inedito: giovane sognatore nel 1916, appassionato scrittore nel 1934, professore serissimo e scrupoloso, con il dono di saper leggere la realtà in trasparenza. Una vita straordinaria, nella quale si coglie la magia della poesia.
Biography & AutobiographyLiterary FiguresLiterary CollectionsLetters
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERBompiani
LENGTH517
LANGUAGEIT
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent "counter-culture" largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone's, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK's leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html
