is a fairly short novel, but no less intense. Edith Wharton once again introduce a love triangle as The Age of Innocence , but in a rural setting and modest class. Is palpable, as in the former, the restrained passion, the oppressive environment and the burden felt by the protagonist, again a man trapped in a loveless marriage to another woman is what I always wanted. Here too is a relative of the wife, but do not think that the author is repeated, much less. The story here is simpler and has a flash-back mode. In fact, we know Ethan Frome as a crippled and prematurely aged type because of what everyone calls "the accident", but what really happened?
I have seen the version that was made for the film, directed by John Madden and starring Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette and Joan Allen, a well-chosen cast for my taste. The adjustment is correct (removing some licenses), but I strongly recommend the novel, since it better reflects the desire of the protagonist.
This novel was a wonderful surprise gift forum Time Stories and that always I will have a special affection.
The argument is simple: Michael Henchard, a laborer, sells his wife and daughter for five guineas a few months during one of their drunkenness. After realizing what he has done, promises not to drink over the next twenty years, succeeded in becoming an honest person. But life has in store several surprises that come with the return of what was his wife.
had not read anything by Thomas Hardy, nor have I seen any version of Tess of the D' Ubervilles , but it seems that this author leaves little to the joy. Well, yes I've seen an adaptation of Under the Greenwood Tree and at least ends well. What most caught my attention is that the author goes straight to the point, ie not mince words when introducing us to Michael Henchard as a strength capable of committing such aberration to sell his family. After deflating the novel is a bit until you respawn Susan and Elizabeth-Jane, wife and daughter, respectively. These are joined Donald Farfrae, a character who becomes the opposite of Henchard and Lucetta, someone who has some relationship with the protagonist and that will be crucial to the novel.
In the book we can establish two types of characters, those who hide a secret (Henchard, Susan and Lucetta) and victims of these secrets (Farfrae and Elizabeth-Jane). Mystery has little, because the author is leaving things pretty clear throughout the novel. It is more a character piece, its evolution, or rather of its destiny, particularly that of Henchard, who seems condemned to finally pay what he did when he was twenty.
Several adaptations. Yet I have both the 2003 miniseries, starring Ciaran Hinds as a free version of Michael Winterbottom's The Claim entitled. When you see, will edit the entry.
EDIT: I've seen the version with Ciaran Hinds. Excellent adaptation, yes sir, with some players who embroider their roles. And I cried at the end. I liked it.
Dumbfounded I stayed after reading in a jiffy the delirious novel Stella Gibbons (1902-1989) wrote in 1932 under the title Cold Comfort Farm and that Spain was translated as Robert Poste's daughter . Several times I had to go to the back and verify that it was written in 1932 in a passage says that we are in the forties and the other characters speak by phone with TV!. Although it is not important, because you will not a pensarse que ésta es una novela de ciencia ficción.
La historia cuenta cómo una chica bien de Londres, Flora Poste, que acaba de quedarse huérfana, decide irse con unos parientes suyos que tienen una granja en Sussex. Allí, como el personaje de Emma de Jane Austen, Flora se empeña en darle otro aire a la peculiar Cold Comfort Farm así como arreglarle la vida a sus extravagantes y rurales habitantes. Aunque la traducción al español de esta edición de 2010 es buena, con notas a pié incluidas, lo mejor debe ser leerla en inglés para captar todos los giros y el habla rural de Sussex. Los nombres citados tienen siempre su porqué, así los primos de Flora se llaman "Starkadder", que se podría translated as "bad snakes". Delirious the phrase that is repeated in history as a mantra has always been Starkadder in Cold Comfort ", which is no less a way to laugh at rural wisdom / popular. Everything is spiced with moments of great irony in the the absurd has no limits, even to the very end is, in my opinion, a great boutade .
The novel is a counterpoint to the pessimism of Thomas Hardy country and the extreme romanticism of Mary Webb, who with such good laughs and subtle humor the author. And, many of the characters are genuine and successful satire, as the writer Meyerbug, it would be a heavy libidinous and DH Lawrence, Seth's cousin, a Heathcliff or premium unleashed Elfin, a Cathy very "brontiana." English humor that fine tradition "austiana" that I like, has there really enjoyed the story.
not miss the passages between asterisks, as well the author explains in his preface dedicated to Anthony Knight Pookworthy (ABS, LLR or Member of the Association of Stables, licensed for the foisting of Circumlocution soporific), are what she considers "more elegant and literary." Nonsense.
I allowed to include here the tamping of the film for BBC television (1995) in which was made famous actress Kate Beckinsale. It looks pretty good.
