Maldição de Escravo (Gibi Edição Maravilhosa #114) - Quadrinização de "Pudd'nhead Wilson" de Mark Twain (Clássicos Ilustrados)

Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Clemens

EBAL / Editora Brasil-América

1955

52 páginas

1h 44m

ISBN-13: 9780140430400

Português Brasileiro

[Edição Maravilhosa — 1ª Série, Número 114. Publicado em Dezembro de 1955] Mark Twain — Maldição de Escravo (Clássicos Ilustrados) / Direção: Adolfo Aizen. (Brochura - Formato Americano - Quadrinhos em Preto e Branco). Originalmente "Pudd'nhead Wilson" - Classics Illustrated n° 93/1952 - The Gilberton Company, Inc. (1942–1967).
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) '-'
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works. Mark Twain's satire humorously and pointedly lambastes everything from small-town politics and religious beliefs to slavery and racism.

The setting is the fictional Missouri frontier town of Dawson's Landing on the banks of the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century. David Wilson, a young lawyer, moves to town, and a clever remark of his is misunderstood, which causes locals to brand him a "pudd'nhead" (nitwit). His hobby of collecting fingerprints does not raise his standing in the eyes of the townsfolk, who consider him to be eccentric and do not frequent his law practice. The novel features the technological innovation of the use of fingerprints as forensic evidence. "The reader knows from the beginning who committed the murder, and the story foreshadows how the crime will be solved. The circumstances of the denouement, however, possessed in its time great novelty, for fingerprinting had not then come into official use in crime detection in the United States. Even a man who fooled around with it as a hobby was thought to be a simpleton, a 'pudd'nhead'."

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Uma história sobre miscigenação no Sul dos EUA, o livro é conhecido por seu humor sombrio e suas reflexões sobre racismo e responsabilidade. Notáveis ​​também são as epígrafes irônicas de um almanaque fictício que abrem cada capítulo.

Roxana, uma escrava mestiça de pele clara, troca seu bebê pelo bebê de sua dona branca. Seu filho natural, Tom Driscoll, cresce em uma família privilegiada para se tornar um criminoso que financia suas dívidas de jogo vendendo-a a um traficante de escravos e que mais tarde mata seu suposto tio. Enquanto isso, Roxy cria Valet de Chambre como escravo. David ("Pudd'nhead") Wilson, um advogado excêntrico, determina as verdadeiras identidades de Tom e Valet.