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Chargement... One Way of Love (1987)par Gamel Woolsey
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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. A beautifully written and deeply emotional modernist piece that wrestles with eternal questions about love, sex, and selfhood. There were so many startlingly beautiful moments in this novel as Mariana tries to balance her own needs with her desire to find a meaningful relationship with a lover. I'm so glad Virago rescued this suppressed manuscript and decided to publish it after 50+ years. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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There is a dreamy distance to the narrative, it's a fairly close third person and yet due to this quality of Mariana's personality the reader feels some of the same 'at arm's length' that her lovers feel. The sex act, for her, is always uncomfortably close to rape - she does not ever dare say no, as she feels that this is her 'payment' for what she wants, really, a warm place on the hearth, no more no less..... I can understand why publishing firms didn't want to touch it eighty years ago; there is a childlike frankness about sex, a naivete that makes Mariana's felt experience quite explicit and the implications are shocking. I've never read anything quite like it, a very original work. ****1/2
I'm adding a link to this fascinating place: Hervey . There is much about the book that is clearly directly derived from Woolsey's own experience - Mariana and Alan and then Mariana alone spend a lot of time at this colony (thinly disguised) in the summers and autumns....... utterly fascinating!!!!! ( )