The narrator was wrong, the author also ...
Preparing a record of four daughters of Dr. March I started to find information on Louisa M. Alcott. One of the few French works devoted to the illustrious creative Sisterhood Dr. Pastor is the Voillev Pascale, a lecturer at Princeton University, a good little book on the whole, in the spirit of this collection, "American voices", which make the task of tour of a life and a work in just over a hundred pages, so difficult challenge.
As I intend to ask me about what made the success of this story a bit cheesy, however, poised to become a true myth, I began to look literary works that could be now be regarded as "avatars" Sisterhood of . Ms. Voilley reported so early in his book, romance Bloodsmoor Joyce Carol Oates, to be translated into French under the title Confessions of a gang of girls . So I bought these confessions, deception: nothing in this book that can recall the four daughters of Dr. nonexistent.
Therefore the English title, it was logical to think that romance Bloodsmoor was given, the French Bloodsmoor legend and fact, Legend of Bloodsmoor is this book that wittily draws the fate of five girls who are not unlike those of the pastor.
The author was wrong, so Bloodsmoor romance has given the French Legend Bloodsmoor paved with 500 pages, published in 1985 and abandoned in stock since. Stock, having launched a business edition of its literary merits, we may give a pleasant surprise to resume this Legend Bloodsmoor , excellent novel by Joyce Carol Oaates who obviously had fun to dismantle and demonstrate the tricks of the "good feeling" in literature.
This novel turns dramatic, eccentric, hilarious, poignant, serious without ever being really, is a literary tour de force and a serious risk to take place at the top of my little literary pantheon staff. I have a particular admiration for the prowess narrative, I read again with pleasure and admiration of Hammett's novels, for example because they are, to my knowledge the only examples of novels written an objective point of view - External focus seems the kind Jargonnant Genette.
The peculiarity of this Legend Bloodmoor is to introduce a narrator (a narrator, in this case) its narrowness, its prejudices, its bad faith makes them instantly suspect. Joyce Carol Oates (or should we speak of a "archinarrateur" malicious instance that warns the reader that the narrator is constantly mistaken) is therefore developing a subtle game which leads the reader systematically take up the cons- judgments of the narrator in question on the characters or their actions, We're caught in a constant game enjoyable and decryption that bouncing rebound leads to an unexpected ending and immoral in the eyes of the narrator and moral waited, in our case.
Background: Zinn family consists of Prudence, the mother, alleged heir to the richest family in Bloodsmoor the Kiddemaster married John Quincy Zinn - which the narrator admires boundless - , inventor failed, locked in a chimerical project of perpetual motion machine and living off his wife's family. John Quincy and Constance will have four girls, the energetic and masculine Constance Philippa, the wise Octavia, the tidy faithful Malvinia and Samantha. We can find fun behind these four personality, those of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, there are certainly echoes between the two works but Joyce Carol Oates wanted to add a fifth daughter Deirdre, Mr. Zinn and adopted by ugly duckling of the family, as not part of the August Kiddemaster tribe.
The narrator, a spinster anonymous, belonging to the good society Bloodsmoor, things start to his relationship when, an extraordinary going to cause trouble and confusion in the family Zinn: while we are about to marry the eldest, during a reception in Kiddemaster - Zinn family lives in a modest house located some distance from the "castle" of Kiddemaster remain where the grandfather and his sister, Edwina, author of legal treaties to success - a black ball appeared out of nowhere comes down and carries the unfortunate Deirdre to the horror of her sisters.
ceaselessly condemned by the conscience of the narrator, Deidre is actually the real hero of the Legend Bloodmoor . It will become a medium of international renown, it will be appreciated, in brackets, the documentation work which had to engage the author to revive the enthusiasm that seized the medial Anglo-Saxon in the late nineteenth century positive . Deirdre did not hesitate to engage his talents as a medium to the sagacity of scientists will rout Psychic Research Society of New York in a chapter anthology (the 36) who asked about the ideological dimension of the novel, if indeed we can lend him one! Note also, in the shadow of Deirdre, the picturesque figure of the famous Madame Blawatski which Oates gives us a faithful portrait also seems like in the original, startling.
If removal of Deirdre, in the eyes of our narrator, an event so fatal is that it will serve as a model to all girls Zinn who in turn will desert the nest, thwarting plans matrimonial violator of their mother and to all the precepts of good practice guides published speaker aunt. Constance Philippa vanish in the aftermath marriage to a German nobleman doubtful Malvinia flee with an actor and Samantha's apprentice with his father. Octavia alone accept the path mapped out and agreed that awaits the young girls of good society in the nineteenth century and ending it, for his greatest misfortune.
I dwell a little on the case of Octavia to explain what makes the character completely heartening to find this narrative: to entrust a narrator obtuse and full of prejudice narration of four fates exceptional that he understands nothing and he continues to castigate. We will, through that of Octavia, it is not unusual how the narrator made a mistake.
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