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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. While E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End seems thematically, stylistically, and even conceptually eons away from Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding, Forster’s eerie “only connect” haunts the pages of the latter novel. McCullers’ protagonist, Frankie, a child caught on the cusp of adulthood, struggles to create and express her individual identity through social memberships. We watch helplessly as she wanders from person to person, struggling to connect and identify with someone else’s experience. As someone hovering on various thresholds (she’s between childhood and adulthood, is forever hesitating in doorways, is not clearly gendered initially, and hails from an unnamed town that seems to be a waiting place between the present and the future), Frankie’s attempts to form an identity that is both distinct and can connect with other people seems like an effort to claim a space for herself, to assert that she belongs. The book suggests, through Frankie, that identity is just as much about connection and belonging as it is about individuality. And if that's not a queer theme, I don't know what is. :) ( ) A brilliant Southern coming-of-age story, steeped in adolescent disorientation. Frankie's sense of identity, gender and otherwise, evolves through the course of this novel, demarcated by boredom and crisis. I love this book because it accurately simulates the chaos in the mind of a young person who does not fit into her world, and whose view of reality is constantly being renegotiated.
Frankie is the pawky, gawky heroine of Carson McCullers' slim (195-page) new novel—she calls it a novella. Unlike Novelist McCullers' earlier books (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member of the Wedding is a serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence. The result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working its way ahead, but always doubling back on itself; two-faced, two-minded. The soiled elbows of Frankie, the brat, keep showing below the sleeves of the orange satin bridal dress which F. Jasmine Addams, Esq. wears to her older brother's wedding. Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido enComplete Novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter / Reflections in a Golden Eye / The Ballad of the Sad Cafe / The Member of the Wedding / The Clock Without Hands por Carson McCullers The Oxford Library of Short Novels {complete} por John Wain (indirecto) Tiene la adaptaciónAparece abreviada enTiene como guía/complementario de referencia aTiene como guía de estudio aPremiosListas de sobresalientes
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HTML: Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the "we of me," and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about lonliness and love. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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