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The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler
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The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. It traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents the diminishment of religious outlook from a Calvinistic approach, which is presented as harsh. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published it was accepted as part of the general revulsion against Victorianism.
The Way of All Flesh is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. It traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents the diminishment of religious outlook from a Calvinistic approach, which is presented as harsh. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published it was accepted as part of the general revulsion against Victorianism.
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The world has long ago settled that morality and virtue are what bring men peace at the last. “Be virtuous,” says the copy-book, “and you will be happy.” Surely if a reputed virtue fails often in this respect it is only an insidious form of vice, and if a reputed vice brings no very serious mischief on a man’s later years it is not so bad a vice as it is said to be. Unfortunately though we are all of a mind about the main opinion that virtue is what tends to happiness, and vice what ends in sorrow, we are not so unanimous about details—that is to say as to whether any given course, such, we will say, as smoking, has a tendency to happiness or the reverse.
I submit it as the result of my own poor observation, that a good deal of unkindness and selfishn. . . Read More
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There's a poem by Kahlil Gibran which goes like this:
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
A semi-biographical story of four generations of the Pontifex family by Samuel Butler, that he only allowed to be published after his death that takes apart Victorian society focusing on the unrelenting hypocrisy of, in this case the monied religious family focusing on the detrimental effects of pat
This is the story of a poor little rich boy. I don’t know about you, but I have practically zero sympathy for poor little rich boys. Call me flint-hearted.
His name is Ernest Pontifex. The goose was not born that Ernest could say boo to. He is a spineless, feeble kid to be sure, but even had he been
"Η κοινή ανθρώπινη μοίρα"
Ένα βιβλίο που φτάνοντας στη μέση του με προβλημάτισε. Όντας αποστασιοποιημένη από θρησκευτικές ιδεολογίες οφείλω να ομολογήσω πως με κούρασε κ με εκνεύρισε. Όμως, προχωρώντας την ανάγνωσή του κ δίνοντάς του χώρο, διαπίστωσα πως πρόκειται για κάτι παραπάνω. Σαφέστατα υπάρχο
... δεν είναι άλλη, παρά εκείνη της λογοτεχνίας.
Η ανθρώπινη κατάσταση, όπως ξεδιπλώνεται αβίαστα μέσα από την πένα ενός μεγάλου συγγραφέα.
Χρώμα πάνω στο χρώμα, ένας καμβάς ζωντανός, ολόφρεσκος, όπως την ημέρα εκείνη που ο δημιουργός του τον παρέδωσε στην αιωνιότητα.
Ο μεν βίος βραχύς, η δε τέχνη μ
Άλλο ένα αριστούργημα το οποίο σου δημιουργεί θλίψη για τα σημερινά ...αριστουργήματα που κυκλοφορούν κατά δεκάδες. Δεν περιγράφει αλλά διεισδύει στους χαρακτήρες, στη διάπλαση τους, στην εξέλιξη τους αναδεικνύοντας τις κρυφές αυτές λεπτομέρειες της ψυχοσύνθεσης των πρωταγωνιστούν που δύσκολα γραφίδ