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Chargement... The Wife of Willesden (édition 2021)par Zadie Smith (Auteur)
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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. I didn't study Chaucer or The Wife of Bath in college but I know a bit about it from friends who were English majors. The idea of updating the story to be about a modern London woman of Jamaican descent is hilarious and I would love to see it perfomed. If you are at all attuned to the dynamics of this story - from the direction of Chaucer, theatre or London, you will enjoy this script. Luckily Chaucer's original text is included in the publication for reference. The book is worth reading just for Zadie Smith's intro. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a mixture of London slang and patois, Alvita recalls her five marriages in outrageous, bawdy detail, rewrites her mistakes as triumphs, and shares her beliefs on femininity, sexuality, and misogyny with anyone willing to listen. A thoughtful reimagining of an unforgettable narrative of female sexual power, written with singular verve and wit, The Wife of Willesden shows why Zadie Smith is one of the sharpest and most versatile writers working today"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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All that is fine, but unfortunately, it got very tedious very quickly for me. I studied the Tales in school myself and taught it many, many times as an English professor. I expected I would be delighted to recognize the changes Zadie Smith would make in her update, but I found there wasn't really much to the update beyond the setting and dialect. I think readers of the original usually get the point that the Wife is a feminist of sorts, and in this update, that seems not so much surprising as repetitive. ( )