Raffaelli preserves the florid musicality of D’Annunzio’s original Italian, its muscular rhythm, and the precious constructions that can make Italian seem like a foreign language in his hands.
In the wake of Pleasure’s spectacular and scandalous success, Sperelli became for an entire generation a type that many chose to imitate-as Goethe’s Werther was for readers of the Romantic era, or Jay Gatsby for the Jazz Age.” - Alexander Stille, from the Introduction Lara Gochin Raffaelli has performed a real service by restoring Pleasure to an English-speaking public, or rather giving it to us, in effect, for the first time. “ A fascinating psychological novel about the mind of a seducer. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This new translation of D’Annunzio’s masterpiece, the first in more than one hundred years, restores what was considered too offensive to be included in the 1898 translation-some of the very scenes that are key to the novel’s status as a landmark of literary decadence.įor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. In Andrea’s pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, he plays them against each other, spinning a sadistic web of lust and deceit. But there are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria.
The book of pleasure serial#
In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. Like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction
0 kommentar(er)
