Libri di George Eliot migliori da leggere e consigliati

Pubblicato a puntate tra il 1871 e il 1872, “Middlemarch” è, nel variegato paesaggio del romanzo inglese di fine Ottocento, tra i punti più alti mai raggiunti in termini di capacità di rappresentazione della complessità delle psicologie e di attenzione quasi d’ordine sociologico all’ambiente sociale (il sottotitolo, “Studi di vita in provincia”, definisce da subito il contesto). Al centro della storia è proprio l’immaginaria cittadina inglese di Middlemarch, all’interno della quale si articolano i destini di quattro personaggi e di due matrimoni infelici, indagati da George Eliot nei loro più impercettibili interstizi attraverso lo strumento chirurgico di uno stile espressivo sempre acuminato. Il romanzo che permette di comprendere la solidissima fragilità dell’Inghilterra vittoriana.

One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’ The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot ‘She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings – that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day’ George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as ‘one of the few English novels written for adult people’. The Penguin English Library – 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.