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William Morris - Papiers cadeau d'artistes (10 feuilles)

Rodolphe, le plus jeune fils du roi des Haults-Prés, s'enfuit de la maison paternelle pour partir en quête d'aventures et connaître la vie d'un chevalier errant. Chemin faisant, il apprend l'existence d'une source magique à l'eau miraculeuse et se met en devoir de la découvrir. Son épopée le mènera par-delà les citadelles des hommes, les forêts enchantées et les landes arides. Le jeune aventurier y rencontrera un grand nombre de figures extravagantes qui bouleverseront sa vision du monde, du Bien et du Mal, et de lui-même : de fiers bergers-guerriers défiant l'ordre établi, des brigands justiciers plus joyeux que des ménestrels, un mystérieux chevalier noir, un moine lubrique tout droit sorti des Contes de Canterbury, et une sorcière insoumise à la loi des hommes dont il tombera éperdument amoureux.
Grand roman d'aventures, ce texte incarne la naissance de la fantasy, croisement du roman d'aventures à la Walter Scott et du conte. C'est aussi une déclaration d'amour au Moyen Âge, cet âge où les machines n'avaient pas encore tout détruit, où chaque homme, chaque femme, avait plus de pouvoir entre ses mains, même face au seigneur féodal, que l'ouvrier n'en possède face au riche financier. Comme chez Swift, Voltaire ou Cyrano de Bergerac, l'aventure et le merveilleux deviennent dans ce roman les outils pour placer dans l'esprit de ses lecteurs les ferments d'une révolte nécessaire, éprise de liberté, d'égalité et de fraternité.

La source au bout du monde Tome 1

What is the condition of Society under which we live? Is it satisfactory, is it quite as we should all like it to be? Does it quite please you who are listening to me, so that there is nothing you want to alter in it?

If that is the case, then none of my hearers are poor, and none have any fear of becoming poor; I am speaking to a crowd of rich men who are quite sure that they will always be rich. Well I see that is not quite the case; some of us are poor, some of us are afraid of becoming poor; some of us have to do very unpleasant work; all of us have to work more than we like; and we know of people who are worse off in all these matters than we are: So we do want to alter things if we could: we are not quite contented: if we say we are, we are not speaking truly but say so because we don't 'want to argue, or because we want to get something out of rich people whose interest it is that we should be contented.

Well I should wonder if we were contented; for when we look at the present state of Society we find that the majority of people have every reason to wish to be better off than they are, that in point of fact they are living in misery. Let us look at the various conditions of life and see what portion of the whole people has good reason to be pleased with their share of the wealth, ease, good living, in a word, the happiness of this most highly civilized country.

Misery and the Way Out - Development of Modern Society

News from nowhere

Of all the stories kept in being by the saga-tellers and left for our delight, there is none that so epitomises human experience; has within the same space so much of nature and of life; so fully the temper and genius of the Northern folk, as that of the Volsungs and Niblungs, which has in varied shapes entered into the literature of many lands. In the beginning there is no doubt that the story belonged to the common ancestral folk of all the Teutonic of Scando-Gothic peoples in the earliest days of their wanderings. Whether they came from the Hindu Kush, or originated in Northern Europe, brought it with them from Asia, or evolved it among the mountains and rivers it has taken for scenery, none know nor can; but each branch of their descendants has it in one form or another, and as the Icelanders were the very crown and flower of the northern folk, so also the story which is the peculiar heritage of that folk received in their hands its highest expression and most noble form.

The Volsungs Saga

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I think the following question is an important one: Which shall art belong to, wealth or riches? Whose servant shall she be? or rather, Shall she be the slave of riches, or the friend and helpmate of wealth? Indeed, if I put the question in another form, and ask: Is art to be limited to a narrow class who only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure of the whole people? the question finally comes to this: Are we to have art or the pretence of art? It is like enough that to many or even most of you the question will seem of no practical importance. To most people the present condition of art does seem in the main to be the only condition it could exist in among cultivated people, and they are content with its present aims and tendencies. For myself, I am so discontented with the present conditions of art, and the matter seems to me so serious, that I am forced to try to make other people share my discontent, and am this evening risking the committal of a breach of good manners by standing before you, grievance in hand, on an occasion like this, when everybody present, I feel sure, is full of goodwill both towards the arts and towards the public. My only excuse is my belief in the sincerity of your wish to know any serious views that can be taken of a matter so important. So I will say that the question I have asked, whether art is to be the helpmate of wealth or the slave of riches, is of great practical import, if indeed art is important to the human race, which I suppose no one here will gainsay...

Art, Wealth, and Riches - The Relations of Art to Labour

Questo romanzo, per stessa ammissione di J. R. R. Tolkien, è stato fonte di ispirazione per la stesura de Il Signore degli Anelli. William Morris, uno dei più influenti intellettuali dell'Ottocento Inglese, rivisita la lotta tra Goti e Romani mescolando realtà storica ed elementi fantastici tipici del romanzo islandese medievale. Thiodolf, condottiero barbaro della casata dei Wolfings, si oppone in uno scontro epico ai Romani che minacciano la sua gente. Le vicende narrate servono all'autore come spunto di riflessione sulle tematiche politiche utopistiche a lui tanto care. L'opera è finalmente presentata al pubblico italiano in un'accattivante traduzione che riecheggia lo stile del racconto orale, accompagnata da evocative illustrazioni.

The House of the Wolfings

Pubblicato nel 1888, "Il sogno di John Ball" è una fantasia di carattere utopico-socialista, e ha la forma di un sogno in cui il narratore si ritrova proiettato - dopo aver annusato gli effluvi di un misterioso "papavero bianco" - all'epoca di una rivolta contadina realmente avvenuta nel 1381 nel corso della Guerra dei Cento Anni, e capitanata, tra gli altri, proprio da John Ball, una storica, seppur poco nota, figura di prete di campagna. Il narratore ben presto si ritrova coinvolto nella ribellione e assiste agli scontri armati tra rivoltosi e soldati dei signorotti locali. Dopo aver assistito a un sermone di rara potenza oratoria che John Ball tiene ai contadini ribelli, il narratore lo incontra e durante una notte i due hanno una conversazione di carattere politico e sociale che rivela incredibili aspetti di attualità e contemporaneità.

William Morris - Papiers cadeau d'artistes (10 feuilles)

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