'he carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that he never did a single Injury to Man or Woman, by which he himself did not expect to reap some Advantage' The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled 'Thieftaker General', controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists made connections between his success and the triumph of corruption in high places. Henry Fielding built on these narratives to produce one of the greatest sustained satires in the English language. Published in 1743, at a time when the modern novel had yet to establish itself as a fixed literary form, Jonathan Wild is at the same time a brilliant black comedy, an incisive political satire, and a profoundly serious exploration of human 'greatness' and 'goodness'.
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Cuando Henry Fielding publica «Jonathan Wild» en 1743, el autor era ya uno de los hombres de letras más reconocidos, admirados, odiados y polémicos de su tiempo, a pesar de que su carrera como novelista había comenzado tan sólo dos años antes. La posterior publicación de «Tom Jones», su obra maestra, consolidó a Fielding como uno de los grandes autores de prosa de ficción de su época, convirtiéndole en uno de los padres de la novela inglesa del XVIII y de la novela realista europea. El Fielding vividor y optimista que escribió en sus novelas cantos llenos de perspicacia e inteligencia a la alegría de vivir, con una franqueza sexual tachada frecuentemente de inmoral, muestra en «Jonathan Wild» su vena más cínica, pesimista e irónica sobre la naturaleza humana. Su mensaje final resuena, desgraciadamente, lleno de vigente actualidad: la satisfacción de ser " grande " no emana de los resultados materiales de dicha grandeza, sino del mero orgullo de saberse superior o distinto a los demás.
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