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Малинови нощи
Има хладни вечери, в които стоим сгушени на топло и мисълта ни отлита към прекрасни моменти, хора или места, докато с носталгия се опитваме да се пренесем в някоя южна посока, топла вечер или малинова нощ.
Големите писатели имат такива преживявания, може би по-често от нас. Благодарение на тези меланхолични настроения до следващите поколения са достигнали забележителни книги, но въпреки разликата между обикновените хора и великите умове, ние все пак имаме общи неща: това са спомените за летни вечери, идващи понякога неочаквано, а друг път - като специални гости. Те носят със себе си песен на щурци, мирис на зрели плодове и аромат на малиново вино. А ние правим всичко възможно да ги задържим по-дълго.
Големите писатели имат такива преживявания, може би по-често от нас. Благодарение на тези меланхолични настроения до следващите поколения са достигнали забележителни книги, но въпреки разликата между обикновените хора и великите умове, ние все пак имаме общи неща: това са спомените за летни вечери, идващи понякога неочаквано, а друг път - като специални гости. Те носят със себе си песен на щурци, мирис на зрели плодове и аромат на малиново вино. А ние правим всичко възможно да ги задържим по-дълго.
146 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2016
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Oscar Wilde
5,739books37.8kfollowersOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
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February 10, 2017
Някои от разказите са хубави, други - не чак толкова, но като цяло оценката ми за тях би била 4 звезди. Причината, поради която поставям 3 звезди на книгата, е липсата на всякаква редакторска работа. За всеки от авторите в сборника има различни преводачи, които явно са се надпреварвали кой ще допусне по-фрапираща фактологическа грешка. На едно място в разказа на Джеймс Джойс главният герой се казва Дойл, в следващия се оказва, че е Хенри; в друг от разказите сума от 1 милион паунда се превръща в 5 милиона долара; в трети повествованието се води от мъж, който отвреме-навреме явно се превръща в жена. По този начин се губи голяма част от насладата от четенето на иначе приличната подборка.
July 25, 2016
освежаващо, ароматен сборник с разкази на автори, чието творчество бях поизоставила заради любопитството ми към новото. приятно завръщане към времената на класическата история, малинови нощи, лавандулови дни и милото усещане за прибиране у дома...
September 13, 2017
Откакто видях този сборник с разкази исках да го прочета. Очаквах доста повече - и от самия подбор на историите, но най-вече от редакцията на книгата. Все едно никой не я беше чел преди да е издадена - имаше куп фактологически и печатни грешки. Очаквах и повече "ароматен привкус" - усетих заглавието в няколко от разказите, но другите си бяха съвсем случайни. Все едно книгата е кръстена така, за да се продава с малиниво вино (което обожавам и в което не би имало нищо лошо, ако изпълнението на цялото нещо беше по-добро). Все пак разказите, които ме впечатлиха бяха наистина чудесни. За първи път купувам книга на това издателство, искрено се надявам нещата да се подобрят.
September 19, 2020
Тъй като обичам да чета разкази дойде вреето и на този сборник. Ако се дистанцираме от стилистическите грешки, определено има няколко интригуващи разказа с неочакван край.
November 6, 2020
Средна оценка на разказите - 3 звезди. Но заради изключително лошата редакция на преводите, намалявам с 1 звезда, тъй като доста от емоцията се губи в стилистическите грешки.
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