Byron in love

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Sinopse

Bryon's name is part of the English language. The word 'Byronic' suggests excess, diabolical deeds and a rebelliousness answering neither to king nor commoner. Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal.Lord George Gordon Byron was 5' 8" in height, had a malformed right foot, chestnut hair, a haunting pallor, grey eyes fringed with dark lashes and an enchantedness that neither men nor women could resist. Everything about him was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly, and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in a child's magic and malices. He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator.

Participantes

Autor: Edna O'Brien

Autor

EDNA O'BRIEN

Country girls (1960), livro de estreia de Edna O’Brien (1930, Tuamgraney, Irlanda), foi banido de seu país pela naturalidade com que descreve a vida sexual das personagens. Ao mudar-se para Londres, retratou a repressora cidade natal em A pagan place, de 1970. Em mais de vinte romances, os dilemas amorosos de Country girls abriram espaço para os conflitos políticos e sociais da Irlanda, caso de Dezembros selvagens (1999), livro com o qual Edna O’Brien foi comparada a Faulkner pelo escritor Philip Roth. Ela também escreveu diversas coletâneas de contos, muitos deles publicados na New Yorker, peças teatrais – uma delas sobre Virginia Woolf –, além de uma biografia de James Joyce. O romance A luz da noite (2006) será publicado no Brasil neste ano.