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Asimov's annotated "Don Juan" (1972)

av Lord Byron, Isaac Asimov (Redaktör)

Andra författare: Isaac Asimov (notes), Milton Glaser (Illustratör)

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Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in ottava rima stanza form, Byron's Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humour, outrageous satire of his contemporaries (in particular Wordsworth and Southey) and sharp mockery of Western societies, with England coming under particular attack.… (mer)

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The trouble with appealing to adolescent tastes is that adolescents outgrow them. The world turns out to be less gloomy and alienating than they thought, or it turns out to be gloomy and alienating in a less exciting way. Wordsworth's steady, sober self-involvement seems more and more significant. And then, you discover Don Juan. One of the great strange things about it is that it isn't at all about sexual guilt. The Don drifts disastrously from encounter to encounter and loves and grieves through each of them, sincerely and sweetly. He suffers expulsion, shipwreck, enslavement, war, celebrity – without any effect on his ability to love or grieve again. The problem for the Byronic hero is that he can't get over anything; the problem for Don Juan is that he can.

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Författarens namn	Roll	Typ av författare	Verk?	Status
Lord Byron	—	primär författare	alla utgåvor	beräknat
Asimov, Isaac	Redaktör	huvudförfattare	alla utgåvor	bekräftat
Asimov, Isaac	notes	medförfattare	alla utgåvor	bekräftat
Glaser, Milton	Illustratör	medförfattare	alla utgåvor	bekräftat

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Oh, curse the crass and foolish emulation

That makes me dream of wit that’s like to Byron’s, And draws me on to find some dedication To force a smile, though lips were dour as Chiron’s When, truth to tell, I lack the inspiration

To place, in my brain’s fire, the clever irons.

So let me simply find on this sad planet One saving note of grace and say:

To Janet.

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George Gordon Byron was born on January 22, 1788, and if there was a spoon in his mouth, it did not seem to be silver.

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There seems to be a very ancient legend that swans sing very beautifully, but only once—just before they die. It is this legend that gives us the expression “swan song" for any artistic production that is the last work of a notable creator. (As it happens, Don }uan is Byron’s swan song.) Unfortunately, the legend is entirely without foundation; swans do not sing, either before death or at any other time; yet the tale remains an ineradicable literary allusion.

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Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in ottava rima stanza form, Byron's Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humour, outrageous satire of his contemporaries (in particular Wordsworth and Southey) and sharp mockery of Western societies, with England coming under particular attack.

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