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Wide Sargasso Sea
Aug. 25th, 2008 12:00 amIts the most electrifying moment in novel-reading and
I can't think HOW I've missed* reading -or knowing the plot of - this original book by Jean Rhys which was first published in 1966.
Luckily my copy is a 2nd hand plain covered hardback i.e. with no irritating blurb...or I would not have suddenly realised with a SHOCK that the 1st person narrator is in fact THE ....(deleted, in case)
What a crack-shot idea! and how willful and eccentric is the way she develops it. Its pure off-centre Genius!
At the same time I'm very slightly peeved that one of my favourite scary literary figures has been humanised; ANY suggestion of ATTICS being unwholesomely inhabited has my immediate attention.
*another inexplicable gap as tho I'dsome weird strain of narcolepsy; tho its more probable I was absent from school (glandular fever!) when they did Rhys, as with Brazil, the Cat & Mouse Act, organic compounds and the basic rules of lacrosse.
NB I've been grounded by illness this weekend but hope to be at Richmond Park this Monday morning looking at these lovely little dears
http://jonemo.de/thedailylondonphoto/uploaded_images/IMG_1088-1024.jpg
and eating scones, kiwi fruit etc here with Malcolm an X
I can't think HOW I've missed* reading -or knowing the plot of - this original book by Jean Rhys which was first published in 1966.
Luckily my copy is a 2nd hand plain covered hardback i.e. with no irritating blurb...or I would not have suddenly realised with a SHOCK that the 1st person narrator is in fact THE ....(deleted, in case)
What a crack-shot idea! and how willful and eccentric is the way she develops it. Its pure off-centre Genius!
At the same time I'm very slightly peeved that one of my favourite scary literary figures has been humanised; ANY suggestion of ATTICS being unwholesomely inhabited has my immediate attention.
*another inexplicable gap as tho I'dsome weird strain of narcolepsy; tho its more probable I was absent from school (glandular fever!) when they did Rhys, as with Brazil, the Cat & Mouse Act, organic compounds and the basic rules of lacrosse.
NB I've been grounded by illness this weekend but hope to be at Richmond Park this Monday morning looking at these lovely little dears
http://jonemo.de/thedailylondonphoto/uploaded_images/IMG_1088-1024.jpg
and eating scones, kiwi fruit etc here with Malcolm an X
