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- innashpitzberg23 сентября 2012 г.Читать далее
THE WELL-BELOVED and the novel of the same title express a persistent theme in Hardy's works. The Later Years says: "The theory on which this fantastic tale of a subjective idea was constructed is explained in the preface to the novel, and again exemplified in a poem bearing the same name, written about this time.... The theory of the transmigration of the ideal beloved one, who only exists in the lover, from material woman to material woman." The novel, though a fantasy in its story, presents the "truth that all men are pursuing a shadow, the Unattainable."...
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Hardy's view that romantic love is subjective may owe much to Shelley. The novel The Well-Beloved quotes as motto Shelley's "One shape of many names." 3 The pursuit of the Unattainable in the novel is summarized in Shelley's "In many mortal forms I rashly sought / The shadow of that idol of my thought." ("Epipsychidion," lines 267-68. )The concept plays an important role in bringing about disaster in Hardy's novels.
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Hardy expressed his outrage at the reception of Jude in an inscription he wrote in a first edition: "The criticisms which this story received in England & America were a monumental illustration of the crass Philistinism of the two countries, & were limited to about 20 pages out of more than 500. It was left to the French and Germans to discover the author's meaning, through the medium of indifferent translations. "
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In a letter to Edmund Gosse, dated from Rome, Hardy stated the theme of the poem: "I am so overpowered by the presence of decay in ancient Rome that I feel it like a nightmare in my sleep. Modern Rome is full of building energy—but how any community can go on building in the face of the 'Vanitas vanitatum' reiterated by the ruins is quite marvellous."
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