Biography of Lewis Carroll

Friend Alice

27 January 1832
14 January 1898
British author, Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson-born in Daresbury (Cheshire, uk), on 27 January 1832. He studied at Rugby and Oxford, Christ Church College, where he remained until 1881 as pure mathematics discipline to which it will devote several treaties. In 1861 he was ordained a deacon, but will never take orders. Very shy character, Carroll will be great friend (and photographer) of some girls, and for one of them, Alice Lidden (daughter of the Dean of Christ Church and coauthor of the famous Greek-English Dictionary Liddell-Scott), write "Alice in Wonderland" (the original title playing "Alice's adventures in Wonderland"), a book which later became famous and originally published in 1865. These visits were in modern times recently surveyed and questioned in some detailed biographies on the writer who highlighted the morbid character bias.
Anyway, the story of Alice became the most famous and beloved of English children's literature, exerting a strong pull on adult readers, thanks to the peculiar taste of logical and verbal game. The adventures of Alice, Carroll will follow in 1871 with "through the looking glass", a text that repeats the same luck the accomplishments of the first book. In this novel the characters, which in the earlier work were playing cards, become instead a chess game pieces and their behavior is determined by the rules of the game, but takes on unique comedic tones. The book could not however not become an object of worship for every skilled chess player. The attraction of adults to Carroll is easily explained.
The Faculty for excellence, imagination, the ability to observe with perfect candor reality (perhaps by joining then these "new" visions with a disposition never exhausted), wake up to the writer to expose the absurdities and inconsistencies of adulthood and to create attractive games based on the rules of logic, able to delight the most intelligent spirits. "Hunting the Snark", published in 1876, for example, that apparently is a funny poem nonsense, hides possibility of symbolic interpretation that have fascinated modern critics. Much less popularity has instead touched a "Kaiji and Bruno" (1889), criticised in many quarters because of the moralizing tone that hovers.
First of his fantasy publications, Carroll had still brought out, under his real name, some works of mathematics, passion never neglected. Thanks to in-depth analysis carried out by disciplines such as logic and mathematics, there emerged such works as "Euclid and his modern rivals (1879)," the game of logic "(1887)," what the tortoise said to Achilles "(1894)" symbolic logic "(1896). In this same capacity as scholar, the Reverend Dodgson has also tried his hand in drafting numerous articles on proportional representation appeared in magazines. He fell ill with bronchitis, this unforgettable writer who inspired hundreds of works drawn from his main character, Alice, died in Guildford, Surrey, on 14 January 1898.
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