Actually, Salgari did not travel at all, except for a trip in the Adriatic
Sea and from Verona to Turin.
But all the other things are very true, especially his (salgari's) modernity
and political correctness.
In Romance Languages Annual - Purdue University, I have published two
articles on this topic...
Please forgive the publicity pro domo mea.
Jone Gaillard
----- Original Message -----
From: Bianca Maria Manfredi <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: Salgari
> Dear Robert,
> if you've never read Salgàri, you don't know what
you're
> missing.
> I grew up reading it myself (by the way, to whomever thought Salgary's
> out-of-date I am 27). When a child I always compared Salgari to Verne, but
found
> Salgari exotic settings (Malesya and the Caraibean mostly) to be more
> adventurous and exciting.
> He was born in Verona in 1863 and died in Torino in 1911. He worked for
the
> mercantile navy and travelled a lot (though not in places as exotic as the
ones
> he describes in his novels) till he turned 25. Then he become a journalist
and a
> novelist, and worked very hard trying to pay out all his debts writing a
huhe
> amount of books.
> 1897 I pirati della Malesia is in print (his first novel about Sandokan)
> 1899 Il corsaro nero about the caribean pirats. This was followed by a few
> novels, among them Jolanda, la figlia del Corsaro nero a protofeminist
novel
> about a woman that commands on a pirates' ship.
> Apart from the adventurous settings and the thrill of his stories, the
thing
> that makes Salgari still worth reading is his modernity.
> Sandokan is asian but he always beats the caucasian lord of Sarawak, a
greed
> colonizer.
> Jolanda's a woman but she can rule over man.
> That's very politically correct isn't it?
>
>
>
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