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Pentru cei care nu ştiu, Thomas Hardy este scriitorul meu preferat dintre clasicii literaturii engleze. I-am citit aproape toate romanele (mai exact, şapte). Îmi place cum scrie, pune suflet şi realizează nişte poveşti de viaţă foarte frumoase. Aşa că trebuia în cele din urmă să ajung şi la acest roman, extrem de controversat atunci când a apărut, mai târziu fiind şi interzis. Roman tragic, cam astfel s-ar descrie acest roman. Însă este o poveste deosebită care nu trebuie în niciun caz ignorată.
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I've spent too much of my life reading and rereading this book. For me it is Hardy's masterpiece (well, along with Tess of the d'Urbervilles), and I find something new each time I go back - but I really need to leave it some years now before I read 'Jude' again. Just to add that I like the movie with Christopher Eccleston better than the series with Robert Powell, even though the series sticks closer to the text. Somehow the Eccleston version gets the spirit more.
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I am still mulling this one over, so I am not going to give it a rating yet. I can see why this was so controversial when it was published and while I didn't *enjoy* this one as much as some others by Hardy, it has a lot of meat.
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Three and a half stars.
Three and a half stars.
I like Hardy, but the last hundred pages or so of Jude was just over the top in terms of tragedy. Hardy's insights into the human predicament make this worth reading, but honestly I wish he'd been a bit more restrained with Jude's tragedy. After all the suicides and despair, well, let's just say this left me extremely depressed.
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most depressing book ever.
Jun 05, 2007
Stephanie Zundel-Smith
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