Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Stephen Crane texte en entier pdf - Le téléchargement de ce bel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets livre et le lire plus tard. Êtes-vous curieux, qui a écrit ce grand livre? Oui, Stephen Crane est l'auteur pour Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Ce livre se composent de plusieurs pages 40. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform est la société qui libère Maggie: A Girl of the Streets au public. 2015-09-01 est la date de lancement pour la première fois. Lire l'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets maintenant, il est le sujet plus intéressant. Toutefois, si vous ne disposez pas de beaucoup de temps à lire, vous pouvez télécharger Maggie: A Girl of the Streets à votre appareil et vérifier plus tard.. Si vous avez décidé de trouver ou lire ce livre, ci-dessous sont des informations sur le détail de Maggie: A Girl of the Streets pour votre référence.
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0 internautes sur 0 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile.Whatever happened to writers like this?Par Karl WigginsThe Bowery, close to the disease-ridden Five Points slum, Manhattan, was a centre for prostitution and crime, and the book opens with a young boy, Jimmie from Rum Alley, taking on a bunch of kids from Devil’s Row on his own. A stone has smashed into his mouth, blood’s bubbling over his chin, tears are making furrows on his dirt-stained cheek, but he’s not giving in. He’s roaring curses at them. He gets a beating, but he doesn’t quit.“Well, it was dis way, Pete, see! I was goin’ the lick dat Riley kid and dey all pitched on me.”Jimmie has a young brother, just a baby really, and a sister, Maggie. His father’s an alcoholic, drinking until he falls down, and his mother’s not much better, and it’s no surprise to learn Jimmie grows up to be a bit of a handful himself. It takes an extremely brave author to kill off his darlings but Stephen Crane does it without a backwards glance. Just after we’ve got to meet all the main players and got to understand their place in the story we’re told in the cleanest and simplest of terms that; ‘The babe, Tommie, died. He went away in a white, insignificant coffin, his small waxen hand clutching a flower that the girl, Maggie, had stolen from an Italian. She and Jimmie lived.’That is such subtle and exquisite writing. Nobody could write that nowadays. It would take three undernourished chapters detailing the baby’s illness or whatever he died of, the family’s emotions, the sense of grief and loss, but all Stephen Crane tells us is ‘The babe, Tommie, died.’So why introduce him in the first place? Well, to kill him off, I would imagine. To demonstrate how cheap life was in the Bowery in the late 1800’s.Jimmie becomes a ‘young man of leather,’ studying human nature in the gutter and finding it no worse than he expected. He fights, gets into bar-room brawls, gets arrested, ignores women who claim to be pregnant, yet in his reverent moments can be quite poetic; “Deh moon looks like hell, don’t it?”Maggie ‘blossoms in a mud puddle’ and somehow none of the Rum Alley dirt enters her veins; “Dat Johnson goil is a puty good looker,” and Jimmie warns her that she either has to ‘go the hell’ or go to work. Going to hell, the reader is led to believe is falling into prostitution, and this is the fate that eventually awaits Maggie, although saying so much in a book was considered too risqué at the time.The writing is gaunt and transparent, and this is Crane’s genius. No wasted verbs or adjectives, no necessity for alliteration, no long-drawn out explanations, Crane just states it as it is with no frittering of words; “Whoop!” said the Rum Alley tenement house’ in the middle of a fight between Jimmie and his drunken mother. “T’ree to one on deh red!”But it’s Crane’s ability to write in the colloquial dialect of the Bowery – which I take to be immigrant Irish - that is his true talent. This is never easy. There are many authors who just can’t write conversation at all, yet Stephen Crane offers us ‘Maggie’ as if he banged the whole book out in one weekend.It’s a gift.
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