29-03-2014, 13:53
Petit ajout qui va certainement dans le sens de Sosryko : Clyde Kilby, dans son opuscule Tolkien & The Silmarillion (Harold Shaw Publishers, 1976, p. 36) mentionne aussi le conte satirique intitulé « The Bovadium Fragments » et donne quelques précisions supplémentaires :
[citation][...] Tolkien from time to time handed me other shorter pieces and asked me about their publishability. On was a called “The Bovadium Fragments,” a satire written long before and having as its main point the worship of the Motores, i.e., automobiles, and the traffic jams blocking the roads in and around Oxford. It was full of the inventiveness to be expected of Tolkien. Some of the characters are Rotzopny, Dr. Gums, and Sarevelk. I judged that it had two elements that would make it unpublishable. One was the more than liberal use of Latin, and the other the probability that a reader's eye would focus on its playfulness rather than its serious implications. Actually it was an early comment on the commercialization of our world.[/citation]
Il est notable que Kilby a bien connu Tolkien après que celui-ci avait pris sa retraite, puisqu'il l'a aidé pendant un été entier à mettre en forme les manuscrits du Silmarillion en vue de leur publication. Le livre de Kilby vaut tout à fait la peine d'être lu pour l'éclairage qu'il apporte sur le caractère et les habitudes de Tolkien, ce qui le rend très complémentaire à la biographie de Carpenter.
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[citation][...] Tolkien from time to time handed me other shorter pieces and asked me about their publishability. On was a called “The Bovadium Fragments,” a satire written long before and having as its main point the worship of the Motores, i.e., automobiles, and the traffic jams blocking the roads in and around Oxford. It was full of the inventiveness to be expected of Tolkien. Some of the characters are Rotzopny, Dr. Gums, and Sarevelk. I judged that it had two elements that would make it unpublishable. One was the more than liberal use of Latin, and the other the probability that a reader's eye would focus on its playfulness rather than its serious implications. Actually it was an early comment on the commercialization of our world.[/citation]
Il est notable que Kilby a bien connu Tolkien après que celui-ci avait pris sa retraite, puisqu'il l'a aidé pendant un été entier à mettre en forme les manuscrits du Silmarillion en vue de leur publication. Le livre de Kilby vaut tout à fait la peine d'être lu pour l'éclairage qu'il apporte sur le caractère et les habitudes de Tolkien, ce qui le rend très complémentaire à la biographie de Carpenter.
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