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Chargement... Deadlockpar Dorothy M. Richardson
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Appartient à la sériePilgrimage (6) Est contenu dansPilgrimage par Dorothy Miller Richardson (indirect)
Published in 1921, this is the sixth volume of Richardson's Pilgrimage sequence. Miriam Henderson falls in love with a Russian Jew, Michael Shatov. He romances her with Russian literature, art, and learning but because of Shatov's religion and past, Miriam is uncertain she can commit to him fully. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Because women had corns, feminine beauty was a myth; because the world could do without Mrs Hemans's poetry, women should confine their attention to puddings and babies. The infernal complacent cheek of it. This was the kind of thing middle-class men read. Unable to criticize it, they thought it witty and unanswerable. That was the worst of it. Books of this sort were read without any one there to point thing out. It ought to be illegal to publish a book by a man without first giving it to a woman to annotate. But what was the answer to men who called women inferior because they had not invented or achieved in science or art? On whose authority had men decided that science and art were greater than anything else? The world could not go on until this question had been answered.
This was all well and good as long as Miriam kept these thoughts to herself; later in the novel her strong opinions get her into hot water, which further illustrates her point about women's place in society.
In Deadlock Miriam also finds companionship in Mr Shatov, a Russian boarder. Their relationship begins with Miriam teaching him the finer points of English, but progresses steadily to companionship based on intellectual give and take, and then to something more. There were long passages of philosophical discourse which I found hard to follow, not least because Richardson doesn't make clear which party is speaking and I tired of trying to keep up. But there were also moments of joy and sadness for Miriam that provided emotional depth that was lacking in previous books. ( )