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Zusatztext “Georges is an illuminating! instructive! and enduring blueprint of racial conflict and strife! as compelling and relevant today as it was back in the 1840s! when it was first published.” –Adrienne Kennedy! author of Funnyhouse of a Negro “I know this is a novel of great historical and cultural significance and that it explores complex issues of race and colonialism and all! but what matters to a guy like me is! it’s a hell of a read. Sea battles and land battles! a steamy setting and hot-blooded gallantries! ancient enmities and sweet revenge! forbidden love! insults and duels! bravado and bravery and redemption! hot pursuit and desperate flight and crushing captures and daring escapes. What a story! And Kover’s translation lets all the lushness and the romance and the passion come through with cinematic clarity.” –David Bradley! author of The Chaneysville Incident “A remarkable discovery that expands the corpus of Alexandre Dumas. Rendered in beautiful language! this is a tale that transports us to a time and place that still speaks to us in our present circumstances. We are indebted to Werner Sollors and Jamaica Kincaid for their framing documents that provide us with a critical lens for the journey Dumas has created for us out of his own generous and expansive imagination.” –Rudolph P. Byrd! Emory University “A brilliant example of the French Romantic novel! far too infrequently read and . . . deserving of a broader audience.” –Barbara T. Cooper! professor of French! University of New Hampshire Informationen zum Autor Alexandre Dumas Klappentext Long out of print in America, Alexandre Dumas's most daring narrative is now available in this major new translation by Tina A. Kover. Filled with intrigue, romance, and deadly vengeance, Georges is the story of a wealthy mulatto boy who is driven from his island home by racist landowners. Returning to Mauritius as an accomplished young man, Georges pits his strength against a powerful plantation owner, leading a dramatic slave uprising and claiming the heart of a beautiful white woman. Georges stands apart as the only book by Dumas that explores the potent subject of race. Praise for Georges: "A rousing and vivid adventure . . . packed with action and atmosphere.” -The Columbus Dispatch "A remarkable discovery . . . We are indebted to Werner Sollors and Jamaica Kincaid for providing us with a critical lens for the journey Dumas has created out of his own generous and expansive imagination.” -Rudolph P. Byrd, Emory University "As compelling and relevant today as it was back in the 1840s, when it was first published.” -Adrienne Kennedy, author of Funnyhouse of a Negroi L’iˆle de France Have you ever, on a long, cold, melancholy winter night—alone with your thoughts and the wind whistling through the hallways, the rain pounding against the windows—have you ever leaned your forehead against the mantel, absently watching sparks dance on the hearth, and longed to flee our wet and muddy Paris for some enchanted oasis? Somewhere fresh and carpeted in green, where you could lie in the shade of a riverside palm tree and doze off without a care in the world? Well, the paradise of your dreams exists! Eden awaits you; the water flows clear and bright there, falling and surging up in bright dust; the palm fronds wave gently in the soft sea breeze like feathers in a genie’s cap. The jambosa trees, laden with iridescent fruit, stand ready to offer you their sweetly scented shade. Come, follow me now. Let us make for Brest, warlike sister of bustling Marseille, standing sentinel over the waves. Choose a vessel from the hundreds anchored in its port—perhaps a brigantine, long-masted, lean, and light-sailed, fit even for the hardy pirates dreamed up by Walter Scott, that romantic poet of the waves. It’s early September, the perfect...
