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Laddar... The Millstone (urspr publ 1965; utgåvan 2005)av Margaret Drabble
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. It's 1960s London, and Rosamund, a young intellectual just beginning to make her mark in academia, loses her virginity and gets pregnant in one fell swoop. There's a few places Drabble could have gone with this story, and most interestingly she approaches it from the perspective of an intelligent, independent young woman who is damned if she's going to allow societal expectations to make a social pariah out of either her or her baby. Equally, she challenges the notion of needing a husband to raise a child, determined that it will be well within her grasp to financially support the two of them by herself. I really enjoyed Drabble's writing. It reminded me of a bit of a mix of Anita Brookner and Barbara Pym - Brookner's type of setting and prose with Pym's wit, although with a little more spunk and modernity (for it's time) to the humour. 4 stars - a great start to the world of Drabble. That tagline Rosamund is clever, very independent - and pregnant, whilst accurate as a pitch of the book, turns out to be quite reductive. Rosamund is all those things but as a reader privy to her ongoing internal monologue as well as her external interactions, - in particular her preoccupation of appearing independent, and presenting her personality as she expects others to see her, - we uncover a character that we not only can root for but also relate to. The light-hearted, flippant style (which seems common in post-war female English writers) of the first half belied the emotional depth and maturity that the book ended on, reflective of Rosamund's own personal growth. The last time I was tricked by such an emotional about-face was The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer where I was rendered into a silently weepy mess on a plane. But unlike Mortimer's claustrophobic portrayal of what womanhood and motherhood entails, Drabble allows for a portrayal that was most freeing combined with a lot of wishful-thinking while just remaining on this side of realistic. Things do go much smoother for Rosamund than imaginably possible, with consequences minimum, and support a-plenty. Some might complain about the unlikeliness of such convenient resolutions to all possible conflicts and the privileges afforded to Rosamund as an educated daughter of well-off parents, but I for one am just glad to have a non-tragic pregnant-and-unmarried-in-the-1960s story. This was my first novel by Margaret Drabble, and I realize I have been missing out! Set in 1960s London, a young, well educated, and very independent woman becomes pregnant and comes to terms with her life and herself through her deep and surprised love for her child. Well written and a pleasure to read.
But to see this book as primarily about the sexual revolution, illegitimacy, and the swinging London of the 1960s, is to miss its point. The Millstone is about liberal guilt. It is perhaps one of the most philosophical books written on the subject, full of the sly profundity that is sometimes the special strength of spare, comic novels. PriserUppmärksammade listor
Med exaktheten hos en Jane Austen och giftigheten hos en Evelyn Waugh, med subtil humor och elegant psykologi, naglar Margaret Drabble fast egenkr̃leken hos sina karaktr̃er och det samhl̃le de fr̲etrd̃er.± LOS ANGELES TIMES Margaret Drabble har lyckats s̄tadkomma ett panoramaperspektiv v̲er det moderna livet.± THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Unga smarta litteraturstudenten Rosamund Stacey blir gravid under sin hittills enda kr̃leksnatt, med den sexuellt fr̲virrade George. Mot alla odds bestm̃mer hon sig fr̲ att behl̄la barnet och samtidigt inte bert̃ta fr̲ George att han r̃ pappan. Det r̃ London och 1960-tal; det r̃ ln̄gt ifrn̄ socialt accepterat att vara ogift mor. Rosamund tvingas lr̃a sig en hel del: om moderskap, om sig sjl̃v och om samhl̃let hon lever i. Margaret Drabbles roman Kvarnstenen [The Millstone] frn̄ 1965 rk̃nas som en av de feministiska klassikerna och dess tankar om moderskap, klass och sjl̃vstñdighet utmanar ñ i dag. I v̲erst̃tning av Else Lundgren och med ett fr̲ord av kritikern Annina Rabe. MARGARET DRABBLE r̃ en engelsk fr̲fattare och dramatiker, fd̲d i Sheffield 1939, som hyllades av kritikerna redan fr̲ sin debutroman A Summer Bird Cage [1963]. Sedan decennier rk̃nas hon till Storbritanniens viktigaste fr̲fattare. [Publit] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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