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Byron Apaixonado (2011)

by Edna O'Brien(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bertrand Brasil

review 1: Óptimo pretexto para conhecer a personalidade complexa, voraz, brutal, excessiva, obscura e muitas vezes cruel de um dos maiores vultos da literatura mundial. Edna O'Brien é mestre na separação entre realidade e lenda, baseando a obra na vasta troca de correspondência entre Byron e aqueles com quem se relacionou ou em relatos a seu respeito por parte dos que lhe eram mais próximos.Mas por incrível que pareça, não poucas vezes a lenda coincide com a realidade, e confirmo que o carácter magnetizante de Lord Byron atravessou os séculos incólume!
review 2: Byron, a rock star of the early 19th century was simultaneously charismatic and repulsive. Byron was on occasion anorexic and because he had a tendency to gain weight would pile on clothing and work o... moreut sweating like a pig. He drank prodigious amounts, spent well beyond his means and travel throughout Europe leaving heartbroken ladies swooning in his wake. He had the sexual appetite which would make Wilt Chamberlain appear puritanical. His houses were furnished with a menagerie of creatures, bears, monkeys, birds, badgers and even the more plebeian dogs. He appears to have been manic depressive or bipolar, the more modern term he was an extremely creative and gifted poet who wrote Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan and numerous other works. This is the Byron which Edna O’Brien presents in her book Byron in Love.Byron appears to have been in a constant state of love/lust from the fervent beginning looks and longing to the final throes which dissolve to hatred. Nor was Byron overly concerned about sex or for that matter familial relationship. He was known to have spurned Lady Caroline Lamb much to her displeasure. Byron in love was indeed a interesting creature. As his marriage to Annabella Milbanke breaks down, O’Brien writes:“His moods would run the whole gamut from taunts to savagery, to hallucinations and even to momentary contriteness when he said she should have a softer pillow than his heart to rest on, and she retaliating by asking whose heart would break first, his or hers. She describes the tears that would suffuse his eyes, then freezing there and giving the appearance of icy hardness. “Even while he was interesting, he was hard for me to take in large doses. I found his excesses to be somewhat repulsive and hard to swallow in the large doses. I read the book in small bits and pieces. Despite this, I found it to be an intriguing character study and would recommend it to anyone who could stomach his excesses. less

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