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Chargement... Adrienne Mesurat (1927)par Julien Green
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 2066 The Closed Garden, by Julian Green translated from the French by Henry Longan Stuart (read 22 Mar 1987) This novel was published in English translation in 1928. It is a stark book, reminding me of Flaubert. It tells of a provincial 18-year-old girl, Adrienne, who lives with her tyrannical father and her invalid sister, Germaine. Her sister sneaks off, then Adrienne pushes her father down a stairs and he dies. It is quite a gripping story and I am glad I read it. ( )
Green schildert Adriennes Abgründe in aller Komplexität und nicht zuletzt deshalb kann man Walter Benjamins Urteil, "Adrienne Mesurat" sei eines der allerbesten Bücher dieses Jahrhunderts, nur zustimmen. Appartient à la série éditorialeÁncora y Delfín (608) Prix et récompensesListes notables
In this reissue of Green's 1926 novel (winner of the Femina Prize and a BOMC selection that year), his heroine has spent all of her life in the Villa des Charmes, a neurasthenic household dominated by her father, a wildly suspicious old man whose only concern is the sanctity of his daily routine, and her bitter older sister, who nurses both a chronic illness and a closely held secret. In Adrienne's oppressed and isolated life, the summer tenant of a neighboring villa becomes the unwholesome focus of the girl's need for friendship, and a passing glance from a middle-aged doctor develops into a romantic obsession with murderous consequences. As he notes in a revealing new preface to this edition, Green was only 26 when he wrote the book, and some of his descriptions are themselves rather callow--the "sturdy stock'' from which Adrienne springs seems made up largely of stubborn brows and vacant eyes. On the other hand, the unremitting detailing of the Villa's stultifying routine is very effective--so much so that when Adrienne helps remove both sister and father (she to a hospital, he to his death), the depiction of her obsessive guilt over these pathological acts pales by comparison Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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