Дон Жуан

by Lord Byron

Дон-Жуан — итоговое произведение великого английского поэта Байрона с уникальным для него — не «байроническим» — героем. На смену одиноким страдальцам наподобие Чайльд-Гарольда приходит беззаботный повеса, влекомый собственными страстями. Они заносят его и в гарем, и в войска под командованием Суворова, и ко двору Екатерины II... «В разнообразии тем подобный самому Шекспиру (с этим согласятся люди, читавшие его Дон-Жуана), - писал Вальтер Скотт о Байроне, - он охватывал все стороны человеческой жизни... Ни "Чайльд-Гарольд", ни прекрасные ранние поэмы Байрона не содержат поэтических отрывков более восхитительных, чем те, какие разбросаны в песнях Дон-Жуана...»

508 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

George Gordon Byron (invariably known as Lord Byron), later Noel, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale FRS was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond.

Byron's notabilty rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured upper-class living, numerous love affairs, debts, and separation. He was notably described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization, the Carbonari, in its struggle against Austria. He later travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died from a fever contracted while in Messolonghi in Greece.

Reviews

[Rayna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Абсолютен разкош - и като изказ, и като ирония. Разбирам защо няколко от жените в живота му са го молели да спре да пише следващи песни от нея, много се радвам, че не ги е послушал.