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A Daughter of the Snows
La pista pericolosa
«Ma era verso il Nord che Howland guardava. Dalla cima di una grande cresta montagnosa, sulla quale era salito, guardava intento la bianca solitudine che si stendeva per mille miglia fino al Mare Artico. Debolmente, nel triste silenzio della notte d’inverno,...
End of a Trail
C’est un trou de verdure, où chante une rivière Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons D’argent; où le soleil, de la montagne fière, Luit: c’est un petit val qui mousse de rayons. Arthur Rimbaud October 30, 1781, Passage of Canada Creek, where the...
Adventure Crossway
«Woods and starry solitudes»… This Side of Acheron A Dim Scrying Sight A Nether Picture from Les Mohicans de Paris Unbounded First Reconnaissance on the Field of Adventure How To Read, Perhaps At Play Rudiments Notes Spinned Off of a Fragment on Memory...
An Untold Wilderness Tale
… la frontiera tra Canada e Stati Uniti, dove Pratt ambienterà la terza storia della saga di Wheeling con un nuovo protagonista, Walter Butler, un «rinnegato» … «Forse basterebbe una foto», dice Pratt, mentre la macchina da presa lo inquadra, seduto tra...
How To Dream Over a Map (Adventure Tales as Constellations, or James Oliver Curwood and Hugo Pratt as producers of «objet imaginaires»Sixth Clipping)
Adventure novels bestow upon any reader the chance to call forth or create constellations of words and images which are like Pratt’s watercolors—maps to be contemplated—imaginative devices spawning images, associations and meanings—so that reading adventure...
Reading As Constellation Making (Adventure Tales as Constellations, or James Oliver Curwood and Hugo Pratt as producers of «objet imaginaires»Fifth Clipping)
I could trace many of the constellations wrenched from adventure tales that are ineffaceably impressed in the theater of my imagination, as any reader could do with relish, probably. However, a few haphazardly evoked images from the saga of Mefisto, mortal...
Shapes of Isobel (Adventure Tales as Constellations, or James Oliver Curwood and Hugo Pratt as producers of «objet imaginaires»Fourth Clipping)
Her face was pale and haggard now, but she smiled at him. Her eyes never left his face. They were dazzlingly blue in the firelight. It was the blue flower Billy had given her. But now its petals were torn apart, and nine of them lay in the palm of her...
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Somewhat Medley (Adventure Tales as Constellations, or James Oliver Curwood and Hugo Pratt as producers of «objet imaginaires»Third Clipping)
The way in which Hugo Pratt did cluster together images and words to shape objet imaginaires as unfathomable as divinatory signs, is best shown, perhaps, by his skillfull watercolors, such as Senecas Indians (1977), or Sir Brandel re dei corvi d’Irlanda...
Constellations by Unwalkable Paths: Isobel & Isobel (Adventure Tales as Constellations, or James Oliver Curwood and Hugo Pratt as producers of «objet imaginaires»Second Clipping)
Both Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (1911) and Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail (1913), as they are originally titled, are dramatic and happy ending tales of love and adventure, such as it’s rarely—or maybe never—allowed to...