Frasi di George Moore

George Augustus Moore è stato uno scrittore, poeta, drammaturgo e critico d'arte irlandese.

La famiglia di origine, aristocratica e di religione cattolica, risiedeva a Moore Hall, la casa di famiglia oggi in stato di abbandono, nella contea Mayo, nel nord ovest dell'Irlanda.

George Moore studia arte a Parigi nel corso degli anni '70 dell'800, occasione che gli permise di conoscere molti preminenti artisti francesi dell'epoca. Qui entra in contatto con la corrente letteraria del Naturalismo che lo porterà infine ad essere uno dei primi scrittori di lingua inglese ad aderire al Realismo. Fu infatti molto influenzato dallo scrittore francese Émile Zola.

Secondo quanto affermato dal critico statunitense Richard Ellmann Moore influenzò molto il compatriota James Joyce e va considerato uno dei primi autori irlandesi moderni anche se fuori dal mainstream della letteratura sia irlandese che inglese.

Nel 2011 è stato prodotto il film Albert Nobbs, ispirato al racconto di Moore "The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs" del 1918. Ad interpretare l'efebico personaggio l'attrice statunitense Glenn Close, ruolo che aveva già interpretato a teatro negli anni '80 e che le è valso la candidatura all'Oscar come migliore attrice protagonista.

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✵ 24. Febbraio 1852 – 21. Gennaio 1933   •   Altri nomi Georgie Moore
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“Dopo tutto c'è soltanto una razza: l'umanità.”

da The bending of the bough

“La strada sbagliata pare sempre la più ragionevole.”

da The bending of the bough

George Moore: Frasi in inglese

“I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word.”

Origine: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 12.
Contesto: I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word. Shakespeare gives us the word, Balzac, sometimes, after pages of vain striving, gives us the word, Tourgueneff gives it with miraculous certainty; but Henry James, no; a hundred times he flutters about it; his whole book is one long flutter near to the one magical and unique word, but the word is not spoken; and for want of the word his characters are never resolved out of the haze of nebulae. You are on a bowing acquaintance with them; they pass you in the street, they stop and speak to you, you know how they are dressed, you watch the colour of their eyes.

“The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.”

Vain Fortune http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11303/11303.txt, Chapter 1 (1891).

“Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.”

Impressions and Opinions (1891): "Mummer-Worship".

“All reformers are bachelors.”

Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=HWs-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22All+reformers+are+bachelors%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage
The Bending of the Bough (1900)

“Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked, stripped of all veil; that dear soul which he cannot change or discard, and which is so irreparably his.”

Origine: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 1.

“One must be in London to see the spring.”

Origine: Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Ch. 1: Spring in London

“Self is man's main business; all outside of self is uncertain, all comes from self, all returns to self.”

Origine: Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906), Ch. 12: Sunday Evening in London

“Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible.”

Origine: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 3.

“Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate.”

Origine: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 16.

“Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door.”

The Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11304/11304-8.txt (1905) [Appleton, 2005, digitized edition], ch. IX (p. 169).

“The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.”

Hail and Farewell (1912), vol. 2: Salve, Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-93272-4, ch. XV (p. 36).

“But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.”

Origine: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 1.

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

The Brook Kerith http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12821/12821-h/12821-h.htm, ch. 11 (1916).

“It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.”

Origine: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 6.

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it… you and you alone make me feel that I am alive… Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

Letter to Lady Emerald Cunard, quoted in The Everything Wedding Vows Book : Anything and Everything You Could Possibly Say at the Altar, and then Some. (2001) by Janet Anastasio and Michelle Bevilacqua, p. 97.

“It would appear that practical morality consists in making the meeting of men and women as casual as that of animals.”

Apologia Pro Scriptis Meis.
Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906)

“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”

Origine: As quoted in Conversations with George Moore (1929) by Geraint Goodwin, p. 123

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