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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Amazon Customer
A really enjoyable read and, when finished, once again Elizabeth Bowen had me wondering what could have happened following that.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
By Christopher H
All hinges on Bowen's structure for this novel: a sad tangled story set in the past, with, positioned before and after as a framing device, future events showing the costs paid for those actions. - Be warned that this sophisticated book has to be read at least twice to grasp what is taking place, the motives at play, and the way truths are always being withheld.Tellingly, we are lead into this troubled world by 11 year old Henrietta whose mother died some years before. Despite her loss, she is self-possessed, assertive and emotionally balanced; which is in contrast to everyone else we meet - Leopold, Naomi, Karen, Max, Mme Fisher, Mrs Michaelis - who lead stunted lives. Bowen builds up a world where maturing girls and young women must struggle to obtain their independence from mothers who are controlling: her underpinning themes are emotional manipulation, a search for love, the repression of sexuality, the pressure of social custom. Even the girls' suitors are being subtly steered by the presiding matriarchs.The novel is cleverly crafted, moving along effortlessly without needing to force the Freudian ideas being debated in literary circles, and which visibly influence Bowen's story: so much is conveyed in Leopold's despairing thought "My mother, my mother, always my mother". Saddest of all is that no one in this world seems to have experienced deep emotions. People simply pair off - life partners are picked like items of furniture. Nor can the controlling mothers cope when raw emotions are revealed (Mrs Michaelis is rattled by her brother-in-law's grief; and doesn't wish to know about Karen's true love).Of course, the great unspoken is sexual passion. Everyone skates around it, never daring to discuss it. Even when we get to look straight into the characters' thoughts, with the mental conversation between Karen and Ray, they painfully avoid confronting the matter of their passions. Do they lack them? They say they are happy, but are they? Behind all the misery that has taken place is Madame Fisher, who casts a decades-long embittered shadow from her sick bed: if she can't be happy, no one else is allowed to be either.While it was necessary to clarify Bowen's plot, I did find Leopold's meeting with Mme Fisher a little contrived at points: would one speak like that to a 9 year old? Otherwise, a complex work carried off superbly well, with a marvellous feel for descriptive prose. And in so many ways it is a remarkable statement of its times, the mid 30s, when the anti-Semitism that ruins these relationships was about to utterly rupture this world in the form of Nazism.(Thanks to Amazon for recommending the book!)
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This book is regarded as Elizabeth Bowen's best work. It is exceptional for its multi-facted portrayal of childhood, coming of age and old age. It illustrates how each generation regards the basic facets of human identity: birth, love and death. Bowen's special ability is to convey her characters' emotions through external aspects: descriptions of places; the house in Paris, the cherry garden, Boulonge; and also weather conditions and nature.Time is fractured in this novel: from the present we switch to the past and then back to the present. This timeframe can be exasperating and the story is revealed in a gradual way. Rather irritating is Bowen's dismissal of important events: e.g Max's death in relatively few words compared to the inordinate trangessions she makes when describing seemingly more trivial matters e.g. Karen's meeting with the girl in the yellow dress. But I guess most of life consists of gradual development of character as opposed to dramatic, life-shattering events.This book has so many intriguing strands, memorable characters and beautiful images that it is a truly rewarding experience. Bowen has been compared to Henry James but I was most reminded of Ford Madox Ford's 'The Good Soldier'. Like Ford's book, Bowen's can be difficult but it is like viewing a picture up close - it s only when you have read the book, step back and see the author's entire canvass that the power of the work takes effect.
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