Browsing Vol. 05 No. 2, May 2006 by Subject "1800-1899"
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Brevi note su povertà e ricchezza di Karl May, il Salgari tedesco
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Karl May was born in utter poverty and spent some extremely difficult years in his youth, even ending up in jail. His talent, however, allowed him to escape this situation. His adventure novels earned him a fortune. Upon ... -
Ciò che mi ha dato Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article offers some thoughts on the recent revival of interest in Salgari's work. It focuses on the novelist's poetic universe and on his "recipes" to save reality from banality. It is essentially a personal reflection ... -
Dalle appendici al libro: Su Salgari scrittore d'avventura
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Emilio Salgari originally started off writing for the daily press. No less than five of his novels were published first in daily instalments in various newspapers. These original versions, which have been reprinted only ... -
I conti in tasca a Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article examines Salgari’s earnings and the expenses he incurred, comparing him to contemporary best-selling authors. -
L'India di Salgari: Trucchi ed espedienti di un maestro dell'avventura
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)A question many of Salgari's readers have asked themselves, myself included, is how a writer who never actually left Italy can have managed to describe with such amazing effectiveness so many different exotic locales, so ... -
L'Italia e gli Italiani nelle opere di Emilio
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)This article explores Salgari's considerable opus to identify the more properly "Italian" aspects the novelist has included in his yarns. Even though he is known for the exotic locales of his novels, Salgari does not forget ... -
Scene di fanatismo in alcuni romanzi salgariani
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Scenes of religious or superstitious fanaticism are quite common in Salgari's novels. Such events are given particular attention throughout his work and make the object of detailed and lively descriptions. The novelist ... -
Tante avventure, tante ristampe... ma non tanti soldi!!
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Emilio Salgari was, notoriously, a slave of the pen. He sold the rights to his early works for ridiculously low amounts of money, and afterwards signed contracts that give him a kind of fixed income in exchange for a certain ... -
Vero bohémien d'istinti randagi
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)Wealth, in its economic sense, was a stranger to Emilio Salgari. The author himself gave us a kind of self-portrait in his novel La bohème italiana, as a character who lives his life according to the dictates of the ...
