Os Idiotas

Os Idiotas

Joseph Conrad / Philipe Pharo

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Editorial:
ContraatircsE
Año de edición:
2021
Materia
Ficción clásica
ISBN:
9789895472154
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Foi com 'Os Idiotas' (The Idiots) que Joseph Conrad ─ mais conhecido pelas obras Lord Jim e Heart of Darkness ─ se iniciou nas lides da publicação, podemos por isso considerar este conto (short-story) a sua Opus Zero. Conrad estreou-se através da revista literária The Savoy, revista de artes e literatura, que em 1896 logrou publicar um total de oito números. Com um cariz modernista ainda nos seus primeiros passos, e também decadentista ─ cujo movimento se aproximava do seu fim e que defendia a tese 'A Arte pela Arte' ─ The Savoy marcou a sua era.Este conto viria a ser mais tarde publicado na coletânea de contos de Joseph Conrad, Tales of Unrest (1898).Conrad desconsiderava o conto 'Os Idiotas' considerando que a história era uma obra derivada, e que por tal não teria grande valor, no entanto, na qualidade de tradutor e editor, escolhi-a para integrar esta coleção por ser a primeira publicação do autor, e pelo catastrofismo que temos lido em várias das histórias que têm sido publicadas na Série Grandes Autores da Contra Escrita, aqui no seu V volume. Em 'Os Idiotas' Conrad conta-nos uma história em estilo semi-autobiográfico, dando-lhe início através de uma viagem que o narrador realiza e que acaba envolvida nos meandros de uma história oral e rural sobre o drama de um casal cujos filhos são todos idiotas, o que vem a desenvolver uma enorme tragédia familiar.   Philipe Pharo da Costa  

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