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Laddar... Efter Julius (1965)av Elizabeth Jane Howard
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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. Julius Grace falleció en 1940, durante la evacuación de las tropas aliadas en Dunkerque. Veinte años después, su figura sigue teniendo una presencia decisiva en la vida de su familia. Emma, la hija menor trabaja en el mundo editorial y no muestra interés alguno en el matrimonio. Por el contrario, Cressida, la mayor, está demasiado ocupada con sus amantes, a menudo casados, para centrarse en su carrera como pianista. Mientras tanto, Esme, la viuda de Julius, esquiva la soledad entregándose a las rutinas domésticas y al cuidado de su jardín. Y luego está Felix King, examante de Esme, a quien abandonó tras la muerte de su marido. La reunión de todos ellos durante un fin de semana en Sussex detonará de improviso una serie de revelaciones, secretos y confesiones, que irán desvelando, por fin, la verdad sobre Julius... En esta magnífica novela, llena de sensualidad y delicada ironía, la autora de las Crónicas de los Cazalet logra un magistral equilibrio entre la tragedia y la comedia de costumbres, con toda la elegancia, el ingenio y el talento a los que su prosa nos tiene acostumbrados. A family gather for a weekend together; there's 58 year old widow Esme, her two daughters - pianist Cressy, who flits between unhappy affairs, and publisher Emma, who seems to fear men. Joining them are a young working-class poet Emma has just befriended... and doctor Felix King, once Esme's younger lover, but she's not seen him for twenty years. Over the whole situation looms Esme's late husband Julius... a noble character who died in the war, yet whose influence still exerts a pull two decades on... EJ Howard's earliest published work (1965); it's an OK read but not up to the superb standard of her later Cazalet Chronicles I enjoyed this book a great deal. All of Howard's books (that I've read) are very much of their time - she has a gift for portraying the slightly grubby feel of post-war England - bed sits and inconveniences - in contrast to the pre-war comfort of more established/monied homes. In this she sometimes reminds of aspects of Barbara Pym and Mary Renault (Purposes of Love) The action of the story takes place over a weekend, mostly spent in the country, and concerns a widow, her two daughters, an old lover and a poet who, in their world at least, is slightly odd. The real meat of the story, however, is in the heads of the protagonists, their pasts and their feelings. As always, Howard creates real and interesting characters, and as always there is the strong impression that she is drawing heavily on her own life. Although I enjoyed the book very much, the impressions it leaves of Howard's views on the relations between men and women are disturbing. The two sisters drift along, letting life 'happen' to them, and although the reasons for this are explored they don't seem altogether satisfactory. This is partly to do with changed social mores, but I think also to do with Howard's own life experience. Nevertheless, it is a beautifully written and lingering novel. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind./Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old and afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married men. Esme, Julius's widow, still attractive at fifty-eight, but aimlessly lost in the routine of her perfect home. Felix, Esme's old lover, who left her when Julius died and who is still plagued by guilt for his action. And Dan, an outsider.Throughout a disastrous - and revelatory - weekend in Sussex, the influence of the dead Julius slowly emerges . . ./'A novel that commands both respect and applause' Sunday Times Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Howard writes with what must be personal experience of the generally awful attitudes of men towards sex and the conduct of affairs: but she also is only too well aware of how little a woman will accept in a love relationship just to keep herself in one.
The ending leaves the reader cold, even though outwardly the two sisters appear to be in the initial stages of what they anticipate might become enduring love.
Note: Dan, the poet is Grade A bastard.