'She could even tidy the shelves of the void. "Tu viens chez moi," she said.''She could even tidy the shelves of the void. "Tu viens chez moi," she said.'...more
Perhaps Quin, caught in an imagist landslide, the suffocating heat of the afternoon, a sea rose, earlier the lightness of the first morning coffee broPerhaps Quin, caught in an imagist landslide, the suffocating heat of the afternoon, a sea rose, earlier the lightness of the first morning coffee brought forward with the still drowsiness of sleep present, the cool pale wet leaves of lily of the valley lay beside her in the dawn
‘She makes love out of the day’s rhythms’
‘How monotonous this blue sky is, she said this morning, without looking out of the window, not looking at anything as she passed over the coffee’
Those top reviews (at least the ones I’m seeing) are just bent out of shape because Smith wrote this as a young black woman and outdid all of her contThose top reviews (at least the ones I’m seeing) are just bent out of shape because Smith wrote this as a young black woman and outdid all of her contemporary literary bro boys at their own game oh well oh well oh well oh
Ah ha! Thanks Burney, Cheers Burney, Ta-da Burney! You and your Cecilia, the MOST BEAUTIFUL of all Heroines because Burney SCRAPPED the idea to make hAh ha! Thanks Burney, Cheers Burney, Ta-da Burney! You and your Cecilia, the MOST BEAUTIFUL of all Heroines because Burney SCRAPPED the idea to make her Ugly because why else is MANSFIELD PARK (actually the best Austen) overlooked so much (the answer is probably something to do because you can't really get your knickers in a twist over it)? Well Cecilia is getting her knickers in a twist over her FORTUNE. Welcome to the land of Burney, where everything it 'proto-', 18th Century Lit is all over the place, lots of time spent focusing on the Psychological novel because the History and Romance Fictions are SO over by 1781, all hail JACOBIN REALISM, ha!
Cecilia is an unreliable narrator because she is told how to think etc by society Burney exploits this for dramatic effect and Cecilia is always in a lose-lose scenario (because that's just how life is, for women, not men). Burney ruins her heroine over the course of 941 pages, pushes her to insanity and doesn't really fully bring her back from the brink in the last 20 pages, nice speech by Dr. Lyster who basically sums up the plot in about a paragraph, name one more novel more fitting of the title PRIDE and PREJUDICE other than this one?! Impossible!
Shocking gunplay from bored contemptuous men, Cecilia bores with the cast of the novel as quickly as we do, a true reflection, a true character, so real and relatable, well THANK YOU Burney, for such an eventual conservative and guarded old lady, 30 year old Frances was a right charmer oooooh.
So this novel really tears apart the themes of society that the Post-Modernists were OBSESSED OMG about, the entire novel is just a heavy ironic sigh, like pull yourself together because Cecilia is DONE.
Cecilia is naive, of course, but she charges into socialisation head-on, good for her, meets a world that moves at her like a killer tornado though, maybe figuratively loses a limb or two (because oh my the finances in this book are ridiculous and complicated but she basically gets conned out of her inheritance, the set-up for the novel being she has to marry a man willing to take her surname, lol good luck combating male pride, and then she gets it all, but once she is initially conned out of her money she's then framed as a criminal for idk what to be honest but she basically freaks out as you would, sigh), so you've got your slimy London a la Dickens, but Burney definitely looks forward to her last novel The Wanderer with lots of melancholic Romantic imprisonment, bless.
Surprisingly (?) easier to read than, say, most Austen, and other tomes of Victorian Literature (especially Victorian Poetry), it's pretty sick actualSurprisingly (?) easier to read than, say, most Austen, and other tomes of Victorian Literature (especially Victorian Poetry), it's pretty sick actually, you go smash those Victorian Anxieties Mary Elizabeth Braddon!!! (view spoiler)[okay so yeah I don't really like the crime genre, I watched Species the other day and the police procedural bits were really dull and I can't stand court-room dramas but the investigation in this novel was basically, walk into a room, something's odd, I'll just go to the pub, oh she's fit, I mean she's my mates sister but he's dead so, or is he????? Braddon punches the lols out on this one and whilst on that subject did LADY AUDLEY REALLY THINK that she could be like oops I pushed him DOWN A WELL I THINK IM CRAZY HOHOHOHO!!!!!! Girl just wanted a better life, you push or you get pushed really (hide spoiler)]...more
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