Tobias Smollett
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| Biografia | |
|---|---|
| Naixement | (en) Tobias George Smollett 19 març 1721 Cardross (Escòcia) (en) |
| Mort | 17 setembre 1771 Liorna (Itàlia) |
| Causa de mort | tuberculosi |
| Sepultura | Old English Cemetery, Livorno (en) |
| Formació | Universitat de Glasgow |
| Activitat | |
| Ocupació | metge escriptor, traductor, poeta, escriptor, cirurgià, novel·lista, periodista, historiador, metge |
| Activitat | 1748 |
Tobias George Smollett (1721 – 1771) va ser un escriptor i poeta escocès. Es va donar a conèixer amb novel·les picaresques com The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) i The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), les quals va influenciar Charles Dickens.
Smollett va rebre educació com a cirurgià a la Universitat de Glasgow Durant 1739 marxà a Londres a cercar fortuna com a dramaturg. Com a cirurgià s'enrolà a un vaixell i arribà a Jamaica,on hi residí uns anys. Durant 1742 exercí com cirurgià a la captura de Cartagena. George Orwell el va qualificar com el millor novel·lista d'Escòcia.
Bibliografia
[modifica]- 1746: Advice (poetry)[1]
- 1747: Reproof: A satire, a sequel to Advice (poetry)[1]
- 1748: Translator, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, published anonymously (dated, incorrectly, "1749"), translated from the original L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane by Alain-René Le Sage[1]
- 1748: The Adventures of Roderick Random, published anonymously[1]
- 1749: The Regicide; or, James the First, of Scotland: A tragedy (play)[1]
- 1751: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, published anonymously[1]
- 1753: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom[1]
- 1755: Translator, The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, translated from the original Spanish of Cervantes.[1] Vol. 1: . Vol. 2: .
- 1756: A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages, published anonymously; nonfiction[1]
- 1756: Editor and one of the writers, The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature, a periodical published semi-annually from this year until 1790[1]
- 1757–1758: A Complete History of England by David Hume, in four volumes, with Smollett adding his own Continuation of the History of England, published from 1760–1765, as an additional volume; nonfiction[1]
- 1757: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England: A comedy, anonymously published; a play performed on 22 January[1]
- 1760: The British Magazine, a periodical published in eight volumes; Volumes 1 and 2 include the first publication of Launcelot Greaves (see below)[1]
- 1761–1765: The Works of Voltaire, an English translation of Voltaire in thirty-five volumes, which Smollett edited with Thomas Francklin[2]
- 1762: The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, first edition as a book; originally serialised in The British Magazine from gener 1760 to desembre 1761 (see above)[1]
- 1766: Travels through France and Italy, nonfiction[1]
- 1768–1769: The Present State of all Nations, published in eight volumes; nonfiction[1]
- 1769: The History and Adventures of an Atom[1]
- 1771: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker[1]
Referències
[modifica]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Kenneth Simpson, Smollett, Tobias George (1721–1771), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, setembre 2004; online edn, gener 2008, consultat el 13 desembre 2009
- Lewis, Jeremy (Cape, 2003) Tobias Smollett
- George Rousseau (1982). Tobias Smollett: Essays of Two Decades (Edinburgh: T&T Clark).
- George Rousseau (2004). Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-3454-1 (Paperback) ISBN 1-4039-3453-3 (Hardcover)
Enllaços externs
[modifica]Categories:
- Nascuts el 1721
- Morts el 1771
- Escriptors escocesos en anglès
- Alumnes de la Universitat de Glasgow
- Morts a Liorna
- Traductors del Quixot
- Traductors escocesos
- Escriptors britànics del segle XVIII
- Assagistes escocesos
- Assagistes del segle XVIII
- Crítics literaris britànics
- Escriptors morts al segle XVIII
- Escriptors nascuts al segle XVIII