Jim Tom and Alice With these three names that can be summed up my summer reading. Three novels that I chose to dive into the world of childhood, three fates we meet and talk about what the imaginary. Three novels that are said to children (and they are also degrees of miscellaneous), but I seem to be more novels in the world of childhood (as no one is excluded):
Alice in Wonderland, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Treasure Island. Three huge novelists Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Mark Twain.
Three ways to live and to break with the world of childhood because the stakes of these stories is precisely to grow each of the characters: Alice in her dreams on the other side of the mirror, Jim search of hidden treasure on the island and finally Tom in his adventures along the Mississippi. But finally three novels very ambiguous because they cause effects diametrically opposed the reader whether adult or child. Let me explain, these novels are in themselves the world of childhood but also the sadness of the loss of this world. A child reader will find in these readings which grow by identifying with heroes, but adult readers will find him a way to return temporarily to childhood, be it in the dream world of Alice and wacky in the antics of Tom ( He particularly wants to die temporarily), or experience the adventure of Jim (exoticism of the island, searching for treasure, sea voyage with pirates ...).
There is experimenting with the strange power of reading. George
Battle early
Literature and evil wrote that "literature is
has finally found childhood" (1). And if that was the secret of romance for us to read, to captivate us.
In Latin the word child is in-fantia (literally a-parlance). Quignard said "I
the returns to an initial state, not social, which we source " (2). We may as well refer to this literature important thing, which source (Quignard hue of melancholy and loneliness). Alice in her dream the other side of the mirror invented language and a world in which it has everything to learn. Stevenson rejects the limits of the world of Jim and Twain moral to learn.
If literature is childhood rediscovered at last, there is much there for the reader the freedom to return each time to invent a new world in which we learn the codes (like language) as and when reading. We find ourselves in a position aligned with the child that you want romance.
Jim recounts his adventures as does Alice, but he does not like a child (it does not tell us what his age when he started are narrative, it is definitely adult, and yet he relocates to his own childhood, it abolishes the distance that separates his memories). Alice is the contrary totally immersed in the world of children she speaks to us from his dream.
Alice in learning about the world.
Jim and Tom are in use worldwide.
Henry James likes to think that "
the novelist must write from experience, that his characters must be real, like those that may be encountered in life " (3). In
nice feud that pitted him against Stevenson in 1884, he claimed that his real mackerel because he dil "
I was a child, but I've never been in search of treasure "(4). It is heard in reality. Stevenson replied through which precisely lacks most to James, the sense of the imagination: "
That, indeed, a provocative paradox, because he was never looking for a treasure hidden, it is proof that he was never a child . " (5)
is indeed what is at stake in these novels there, that these novelists question the deeper. I mean the territory of the imagination.
It is variable in boys but rooted in reality, while Alice is exploring underground and unknown worlds.
What joins them is the use of all three that can make the world is the power of imagination.
Tom Sawyer is a novel because of the playfulness of children of the nineteenth century in this Illinois which borders the Mississippi. On reading it feels really great between the author and his subject. Twain is as mischievous as Tom, he rejoices to write his adventures. Tom plans to temporarily die (for love after an argument with Becky) is where the dream machine racing, there is a child to think about it and put it into practice. Tom has no concept of consequences in fact he does not care. Imagination opens up the field of possibilities.
Alice's adventures, they are totally in the imagination, it uses, form, and transforms the words, it shapes his fiction when she was alive. The boys themselves are embracing the world, their imagination lies in the potential of the real world, not that they manufacture.
Overall it is likely that the three novels leave them open on the imaginary world, including their purposes. Nothing prevents the reader to dream sequences. There was Alice, and Tom and it can no doubt dreaming of the adventures of Silver since it happens to escape with some money.
"Before when I used to read fairy tales, I imagined that these things never came, and here I am now in the midst of a tale! We should write a book about me for sure. " (p 78).
editions are read: the new translation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (provided by Bernard Hoepffner Edition Tristram), Alice Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (new translation by Laurent Bury, paperback), Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (translation of the cast of Marc Poree, Folio).
(1)
Literature and evil , Preface, folio test.
(2) Pascal Quignard
The boat silent, Ed du Seuil, p. 64.
(3) Michel Le Bris, A friendship
Literary: James Stevenson , Payot, p. 84.
(4) ibid, p 97.
(5) ibid, p 110.
