I know fairies aren't real, but this is how they do things here and that's fair enough. I mostly, reflexively, find myself reading in the same way as I did when I was a child: with open minded acceptance of the peculiarities of this little world I'm now immersed in, and a hint of detachment. Who knows?Ī children's story which was in print during my childhood, but which I'm reading for the first time in an adulthood: having been one of those kids who pretty much finished the children's section in the library, this is a rare bird indeed. I'm not sure if it has to do with the choice he makes at one point in the novel which could have led to a very different outcome, or whether it's because the writing style to this one was so dry. But I felt little sympathy for his character even though he goes for an emotional ordeal. Okay, maybe we got to see a little bit of why and how Peter Pan became who he was. But at the same time, I didn't care about this random girl and her brother. It was nice to see how some children were portrayed at the time. It kind of had the effect of reading a manual? But at the same time the author used 'you' so I guess Barrie was trying to involve me. You do not need to read this book to understand, enjoy, or dislike (as was in my case), Peter Pan and Wendy. Las metáforas y los mensajes ocultos de la obra me conmovieron mas de una vez, de verdad me gusto mucho.Īt the beginning of this book, it told me something along the lines of: to properly understand the story of Peter Pan, you need to understand Kensington Gardens. Esta historia habla de los inicios del famoso Peter Pan y como es su relación con las hadas y los famosos jardines de Kensington. James Baarrie es un escritor que todos conocemos ya que es un icono de la literatura británica y escritor de varias obras, pero el conocerlo desde su novela como tal es otra experiencia que nadie se puede perder, lo recomiendo pero sabiendo el contexto de la novela. The metaphors and the hidden messages of the play moved me more than once, I really liked it a lot.Įste libro tuvo uno de las mejores introducciones, el conocer tantos datos curiosos de su autor y la creación de su historia y todo lo que estaba a su alrededor en la época en donde lo escribió, su vida y demás cosas alrededor de la novela permiten ver la novela desde otra perspectiva. This story tells about the beginnings of the famous Peter Pan and how is its relationship with the fairies and the famous Kensington Gardens. James Baarrie is a writer that we all know since he is an icon of British literature and writer of several works, but knowing him from his novel as such is another experience that nobody can miss, I recommend it but knowing the context of the novel. This book had one of the best introductions, knowing so many curious facts about its author and creating his story and everything that was around him at the time he wrote it, his life and other things around the novel allow us to see The novel from another perspective. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously.īarrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. In London he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. During the next 10 years Barrie continued writing novels, but gradually his interest turned toward the theatre. The publication of The Little Minister (1891) established his reputation as a novelist. His early works, Auld Licht Idylls (1889) and A Window in Thrums (1889), contain fictional sketches of Scottish life and are commonly seen as representative of the Kailyard school. He took up journalism, worked for a Nottingham newspaper, and contributed to various London journals before moving to London in 1885. The son of a weaver, Barrie studied at the University of Edinburgh. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.
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