T. S. Eliot Libri Migliori da leggere e consigliati

Eliot sostiene che ogni gatto deve avere tre nomi: un nome sensato, “a scopo familiare”, un nome più dignitoso che gli permetta di “mettere in mostra i baffi” e “mantenere la coda perpendicolare”, e infine “il Nome”, che solo il gatto può conoscere. Tra Pelastinco Rotella de’ Binario e Brunero, tra un Gattatràc e un Gattafascio, vedremo così sfilare gatti dai caratteri più disparati, ma nessuno arriva all'”evidenza luminosa di quel primo gatto accoccolato sulla soglia del libro” a contemplare il proprio Nome. Il libro che ha ispirato Cats, uno dei musical più amati di tutti i tempi.

‘The cat himself knows and will never confess…’ To celebrate Old Possum’s 75th anniversary we have commissioned lively new illustrations from Rebecca Ashdown for T. S. Eliot’s original book of Practical Cats. Featuring Macavity, the Mystery Cat; Mr Mistofelees, the Original Conjuring Cat; Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer and all the gang, this is a must for every child’s bookshelf and is a great companion to the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage show.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Jeremy Irons’s perceptive reading illuminates the poetry of T. S. Eliot in all its complexity. Major poems range from ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, through the post-war desolation of ‘The Waste Land’ and the spiritual struggle of ‘Ash-Wednesday’, to the enduring charm of ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’.The Spectator praised Jeremy Irons’s interpretation as ‘so accessible, reading Eliot as if finding his words for the first time, grappling with them, relishing them, using them to express feelings that we all share as we struggle to accept, to recognise or relinquish’. Dame Eileen Atkins also appears alongside Jeremy Irons in the reading of ‘The Waste Land’.