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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. While E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End seems thematically, stylistically, and even conceptually eons away from Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding, Forster’s eerie “only connect” haunts the pages of the latter novel. McCullers’ protagonist, Frankie, a child caught on the cusp of adulthood, struggles to create and express her individual identity through social memberships. We watch helplessly as she wanders from person to person, struggling to connect and identify with someone else’s experience. As someone hovering on various thresholds (she’s between childhood and adulthood, is forever hesitating in doorways, is not clearly gendered initially, and hails from an unnamed town that seems to be a waiting place between the present and the future), Frankie’s attempts to form an identity that is both distinct and can connect with other people seems like an effort to claim a space for herself, to assert that she belongs. The book suggests, through Frankie, that identity is just as much about connection and belonging as it is about individuality. And if that's not a queer theme, I don't know what is. :) ( ) A brilliant Southern coming-of-age story, steeped in adolescent disorientation. Frankie's sense of identity, gender and otherwise, evolves through the course of this novel, demarcated by boredom and crisis. I love this book because it accurately simulates the chaos in the mind of a young person who does not fit into her world, and whose view of reality is constantly being renegotiated.
Frankie is the pawky, gawky heroine of Carson McCullers' slim (195-page) new novel—she calls it a novella. Unlike Novelist McCullers' earlier books (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member of the Wedding is a serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence. The result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working its way ahead, but always doubling back on itself; two-faced, two-minded. The soiled elbows of Frankie, the brat, keep showing below the sleeves of the orange satin bridal dress which F. Jasmine Addams, Esq. wears to her older brother's wedding. Appartient à la série éditorialeEst contenu dansComplete Novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / The Clock Without Hands par Carson McCullers The Oxford Library of Short Novels {complete} par John Wain (indirect) Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansEst en version abrégée dansPossède un guide de référence avecContient un guide de lecture pour étudiantPrix et récompensesListes notables
Cher papa, C'est une lettre d'adieu, en attendant que je t' crive d'un autre endroit. Je t'avais pr venu que je quitterais cette ville parce que je ne pouvais pas faire autrement., je ne peux pas supporter plus longtemps cette existence, parce que la vie est devenue pour moi un fardeau. J'ai pris le revolver parce qu'on ne sait jamais, mais je peux en avoir besoin, et je te renverrai l'argent la premi re occasion. Dis B r nice qu'elle ne s'inqui te pas. Tout est venu de l'ironie du sort, et a ne pouvait pas tre autrement., je t crirai plus tard. Papa, je t'en prie, n'essaie pas de me rattraper.Bien toi.Frances Addams Six ans apr s Le coeur est un chasseur solitaire qu'elle a publi 22 ans en 1940 et qui l'a rendue c l bre, Carson McCullers (1917-1967) crit Frankie Addams, son deuxi me chef-d'oeuvre, avec toujours cette question lancinante chez la grande romanci re am ricaine du sud des tats-Unis: pourquoi est-il si difficile de passer de l'enfance l' ge adulte, si compliqu aussi de conclure la paix avec soi-m me ? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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