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Il cacciatore di Draghi, ovvero Giles l'Agricoltore di Ham
Un contadino abitudinario e un po' fanfarone, costretto a dar la caccia a un drago su cui riesce ad avere la meglio, diventa ricco e rispettato, tanto da essere eletto re. La fonte sarebbe un'antica cronaca in latino contenente il resoconto delle origini del Piccolo Regno. Ma è solo un espediente. Tolkien vi ricorre per creare un mondo metastorico, senza precise coordinate spazio-temporali, un'atmosfera da fiaba, un universo immaginario popolato di draghi e di giganti in cui però possiamo ritrovare qualcosa della nostra quotidianità. Nelle mani dell'autore, fiabesco e concretezza di particolari si mescolano dunque con somma maestria per andare dritto al cuore dei lettori di tutte le età.
FictionFantasy
RELEASED2019
PUBLISHERBompiani
LENGTH160
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
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Il cacciatore di Draghi, ovvero Giles l'Agricoltore di Ham
Un contadino abitudinario e un po' fanfarone, costretto a dar la caccia a un drago su cui riesce ad avere la meglio, diventa ricco e rispettato, tanto da essere eletto re. La fonte sarebbe un'antica cronaca in latino contenente il resoconto delle origini del Piccolo Regno. Ma è solo un espediente. Tolkien vi ricorre per creare un mondo metastorico, senza precise coordinate spazio-temporali, un'atmosfera da fiaba, un universo immaginario popolato di draghi e di giganti in cui però possiamo ritrovare qualcosa della nostra quotidianità. Nelle mani dell'autore, fiabesco e concretezza di particolari si mescolano dunque con somma maestria per andare dritto al cuore dei lettori di tutte le età.
FictionFantasy
RELEASED2019
PUBLISHERBompiani
LENGTH160
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
