Tobias Smollett

Biografia
Naixement	(en) Tobias George Smollett 19 març 1721 Cardross (Escòcia) (en)
Mort	17 setembre 1771 (50 anys) Liorna (Itàlia)
Causa de mort	Causes naturals  (Tuberculosi )
Sepultura	Old English Cemetery, Livorno (en)
Dades personals
Formació	Universitat de Glasgow
Activitat
Ocupació	metge escriptor, cirurgià, traductor, poeta, periodista, historiador, novel·lista, escriptor
Activitat	1748  –
Gènere	Poesia i novel·la

Tobias George Smollett (1721 – 1771) va ser un escriptor i poeta escocès. Es va donar a conèixer amb novel·les picaresques com The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) i The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), les quals va influenciar Charles Dickens.

Smollett va rebre educació com a cirurgià a la Universitat de Glasgow Durant 1739 marxà a Londres a cercar fortuna com a dramaturg. Com a cirurgià s'enrolà a un vaixell i arribà a Jamaica,on hi residí uns anys. Durant 1742 exercí com cirurgià a la captura de Cartagena. George Orwell el va qualificar com el millor novel·lista d'Escòcia.

Bibliografia

• 1746: Advice (poetry)^[1]
• 1747: Reproof: A satire, a sequel to Advice (poetry)^[1]
• 1748: Translator, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, published anonymously (dated, incorrectly, "1749"), translated from the original L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane by Alain-René Le Sage^[1]
• 1748: The Adventures of Roderick Random, published anonymously^[1]
• 1749: The Regicide; or, James the First, of Scotland: A tragedy (play)^[1]
• 1751: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, published anonymously^[1]
• 1753: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom^[1]
• 1755: Translator, The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, translated from the original Spanish of Cervantes.^[1] Vol. 1: [1]. Vol. 2: [2].
• 1756: A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages, published anonymously; nonfiction^[1]
• 1756: Editor and one of the writers, The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature, a periodical published semi-annually from this year until 1790^[1]
• 1757–1758: A Complete History of England by David Hume, in four volumes, with Smollett adding his own Continuation of the History of England, published from 1760–1765, as an additional volume; nonfiction^[1]
• 1757: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England: A comedy, anonymously published; a play performed on 22 January^[1]
• 1760: The British Magazine, a periodical published in eight volumes; Volumes 1 and 2 include the first publication of Launcelot Greaves (see below)^[1]
• 1761–1765: The Works of Voltaire, an English translation of Voltaire in thirty-five volumes, which Smollett edited with Thomas Francklin^[2]
• 1762: The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, first edition as a book; originally serialised in The British Magazine from gener 1760 to desembre 1761 (see above)^[1]
• 1766: Travels through France and Italy, nonfiction^[1]
• 1768–1769: The Present State of all Nations, published in eight volumes; nonfiction^[1]
• 1769: The History and Adventures of an Atom^[1]
• 1771: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker^[1]

Referències

• Lewis, Jeremy (Cape, 2003) Tobias Smollett
• George Rousseau (1982). Tobias Smollett: Essays of Two Decades (Edinburgh: T&T Clark).
• George Rousseau (2004). Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-3454-1 (Paperback) ISBN 1-4039-3453-3 (Hardcover)

Enllaços externs

Vegeu texts en català sobre Tobias Smollett a Viquitexts, la biblioteca lliure.

• Tobias Smollett at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
• Obres de Tobias Smollett al Projecte Gutenberg.

• Obres de o sobre Tobias Smollett a Internet Archive
• Online editions of his works Arxivat 2015-01-13 a Wayback Machine.
• Smollett Monument, including translation of the inscription^{[Enllaç no actiu]}