Gli idioti - The Idiots: Testo originale a fronte

Di Joseph Conrad

Siamo all’inizio di un’era nuova, la cui principale caratteristica sarà, speriamo, una maggiore fratellanza tra i popoli. Il bisogno di conoscerci a vicenda sarà sempre più sentito. Ne consegue, che lo studio delle lingue straniere assume oggi un’importanza capitale.   

We are at the beginning of a new era which will be marked by a greater fraternization between nations. The need to know and understand one another will be felt more and more. It follows that the study of foreign languages is assuming to-day a capital importance.
      
Tutti coloro che desiderino famigliarizzarsi con l’idioma dei loro vicini, o che abbiano in parte dimenticate le prime cognizioni già da tempo acquisite, faranno buona accoglienza a questa serie di opuscoli che li metterà in grado di dedicarsi allo studio delle lingue in momenti d’ozio che loro offre il corso della giornata, indipendentemente dall’uso di voluminosi dizionari.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: cs
• Data di uscita: 12 mar 2023
• ISBN: 9791222090214

Joseph Conrad

Polish author Joseph Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Conrad’s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon. Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad’s writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of Conrad’s novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now.