Charlotte Randall
Auteur de The Curative
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Charlotte Randall
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1967
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- New Zealand
- Lieu de naissance
- Dunedin, New Zealand
- Lieux de résidence
- Dunedin, New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand - Études
- University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Professions
- novelist
- Prix et distinctions
- Victoria University Writers' Fellow (2001)
Ursula Bethell Residency in Creative Writing (2005)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 111
- Popularité
- #175,484
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 13
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1
Although slow to get into, as the beginning is a monologue from William Lonsdale, an inmate of Bedlam, the London mental asylum in the early 1800's, the story is lifted by the vivid descriptions of time and place. He is in his present predicament by foul means. He eventually discovers that he was drugged into madness by a cuckolded husband. Although a married, family man he was a philanderer and spendthrift, so even one assumes his wife and family are relieved by his incarceration. His arrogant manner with the staff of the place, by humiliating them with his command of the English language has him labeled incurable and he spends his days chained to a wall with a mute. His soliloquy and philosophizing is what keeps him sane.
I found myself reaching for my Oxford dictionary, although he mostly explains the words he employs for the benefit of his companion.
The conditions of Bedlam and the treatments meted out to 'cure' are horrific. This is a very skilful and well-researched novel, which I will not forget in a hurry.… (plus d'informations)