169. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Mark Twain)

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Se há livros que nos transportam até à infância e até ao verão, «The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn», de Mark Twain, é por certo um deles.

Referência maior da literatura norte-americana, Mark Twain conta-nos desenxovalhadamente no linguajar da época as histórias de um garoto, Huckleberry Finn, e um escravo foragido, Jim, que se torna seu amigo. Estamos no delta do Mississippi momentos antes da guerra civil. Tom Sawyer e Huck estão ricos na sequência de aventuras passadas. Mas se antes a busca tinha sido ao tesouro, agora tratar-se-á de liberdade.

«(...) We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next. (...) We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.»

Banda Sonora | John Fahey & Cul de Sac ("Tuff", "Come on in my kitchen"); John Fahey ("Dance of death", "On doing an evil deed blues", "St Louis blues"); Jimmie Rodgers ("Hobo's meditation"); Merle Haggard ("Jimmie Rodger's blues"); Lefty Frizzell ("Blue Yodel #2"); Odetta ("Pastures of plenty") ~~~~ R. L. Burnside ("I rolled and I tumbled", "Going down south", "Nightmare blues"); John Fahey ("Worried blues", "The siege of Sevastopol", "John Henry"); Little Axe ("Storm is rising") ~~~~ Mississippi John Hurt ("Hop joint", "Wise and foolish virgins", "Since I've laid my burden down"); Son House ("Between midnight and day") ~~~~ Brownie McGhee ("Freight train blues"); Iron Mountain String Band ("New river train"); Rosalie Sorrels ("The wreck of the number 9"); The New Lost City Ramblers ("He's coming to us dead") ~~~~ Odetta ("Anthem of the rainbow"); Cullen Gaylen ("Wayfaring stranger"); Nashville Grass ("I heard my mother call my name") ~~~~ Joe Glazer ("We shall not be moved"); New Lost City Ramblers ("The little girl and the dreadful snake"); Bill Monroe ("Get up John") ~~~~ John Callicott ("Lonesome Katy blues"); Doc Watson ("The world is waiting for the sunrise"); Reverend Vince Anderson ("Satan hates me") ~~~~ Mississippi John Hurt ("Lazy blues"); Boxcar Willie ("The wreck of the old 97"); Johnny Cash ("25 minutes to go"); David Johnson ("Grey eagle") ~~~~ Jimmie Rodgers ("Waltzing Matilda", "Blue yodel nr. 7", "In the jailhouse now"); Earl Taylor ("White house blues") ~~~~ John Fahey ("Uncloudy day", "The transcendental waterfall"); Ennio Morricone ("Farewell to Cheyenne"); Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band ("Shortnin' henduck"); Odetta ("The golden vanity") ~~~~ Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee ("Old Jabo"); Big Bill Broonzy ("Mule-Ridin' Blues"); Etta Baker ("One dime blues") ~~~~ Robert Johnson (Dust my broom); Leadbelly ("Leaving blues"); Son House ("How to treat a man") ~~~~ Big Joe Williams ("Don't leave me here"); K. C. Douglas ("Mercury blues"); Eurreal Montgomery ("Vicksburg blues") ~~~~ Vera Hall ("Black Woman"); Champion Jack Dupree ("Clog dance/Stomping blues"); Pink Anderson ("Boll Weevil"); Odetta ("Shenandoah"); Leadbelly ("Don't lie buddy"); Sam Hopkins ("Come go home with me") ~~~~ Brownie McGhee ("Rising Sun"); Elizabeth Cotten ("Vastapol"); Spencer Williams ("Careless Love"); Johnny Cash ("Wayfaring stranger").

(ler "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn")

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