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A new era for women--and the Aubrey sisters--dawns in the trilogy that proves "what an extraordinary, and extraordinarily honest, writer Rebecca West was" (The New York Times). They have put down their schoolbooks and put up their hair, but a talented musician and her kin ponder what being a young woman on one's own will entail. Abandoned by their feckless father, Rose and her family must move beyond their comfortable drawing room to discover a world of kind patrons, music teachers, and concert hall acclaim, but also domestic strife, anti-Semitism, and social pressure to marry. Set before World War I, Rebecca West's intimate, eloquent family portrait brings to life a time when women recognized their own voices and the joys of living off one's own talents.… (más)
Con la marcha de Piers, un marido tan soñador como irresponsable, y la venta de algunos cuadros valiosos, Clare Aubrey parece tomar por fin las riendas de su familia. Rose y Mary siguen formándose como pianistas, mientras Cordelia se ve forzada a trabajar como asistente de un marchante de arte y a renunciar para siempre a sus aspiraciones artísticas, y Richard Quin, el hermano menor, contempla la posibilidad de estudiar en Oxford.
La noche interrumpida continúa la trilogía de la inolvidable familia Aubrey en los albores del siglo xx, cuando la mayoría de edad de las chicas, con su aceptación gradual del amor y la pérdida, se torna aún más conmovedora a medida que se suceden los acontecimientos que desembocarán en la Primera Guerra Mundial y sus dramáticas consecuencias.
The whole ghostly, unfinishable saga project now - after her own death two years ago - bears striking witness to what an extraordinary, and extraordinarily honest, writer Rebecca West was.
The major problem of the novel is perhaps the problem that faces all writers who think it enough to present character and atmosphere. In Ulysses Joyce demonstrated that you could show the current of daily life without much of a plot as long as you found a plot-substitute--in his case a complex symbolic structure. This Real Night has none of that: it reads like part of an exceptionally well composed memoir whose backbone is nothing more than time (and not the philosophical time of Proust). The book says, This is what it was like to live then if you had talent, sensibility, and a little money.
In her second novel, The Judge, written when she was Well's mistress, during the early days of the Great War, Rebecca West, in Well's view, ruined the structure by not thinking her plot through to the logical finish. In her critical book The Strange Necessity Wells was lampooned for a certain slickness and vulgarity. (This led to the end of the relationship.) Rebecca West needed more of that vulgarity: exquisiteness, like patriotism, is not enough.
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The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.
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A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness. When one is quite little one labours under just such physical and mental disabilities as might be inflicted by some dreadful accident or disease; but while the maimed and paralysed are pitied because they cannot walk and have to be carried about and cannot explain their needs or think clearly, nobody is sorry for babies, though they are always crying aloud their frustration and hurt pride. It is true that every year betters one's position and gives one more command over oneself, but that only leads to a trap. One has to live in the adult world at a disadvantage, as member of a subject race who has to admit that there is some reason for his subjection. For grown-ups do know more than children, that cannot be denied; but that is not due to any real superiority, they simply know the lie of the land better, for no other reason than that they have lived longer. It is as if a number of people were set down in a desert, and some had compasses and some had not; and those who had compasses treated those who had not as their inferiors, scolding and mocking them with no regard for the injustice of the conditions, and at the same time guiding them, often kindly, to safely. I still believe childhood to be a horrible state of disequilibrium.
Most of what we brought was commonplace enough: one of Kate's veal and ham pies, made with much grated lemon peel and eggs hard-simmered instead of hard-boiled.
Someone said that all fruit, especially gooseberries, tasted better if one dropped a couple of elderflowers into the sugar and water one was cooking them in, just for two minutes.... But as the Victorians considered elders to be the most vulgar of trees, suitable only for the meanest municipal park ... they were not to be found in our genteel suburb.... There the elders had taken over, ... thrusting up their fibrous canes through the gravel ... the flat, greenish-white filigree flowers were appearing among the coarse leaves on the flimsy branches.
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Kate and Constance started to their feet and threw up their hands in wonder, and Rosamund, smiling, clasped the relic closer to her breast.
A new era for women--and the Aubrey sisters--dawns in the trilogy that proves "what an extraordinary, and extraordinarily honest, writer Rebecca West was" (The New York Times). They have put down their schoolbooks and put up their hair, but a talented musician and her kin ponder what being a young woman on one's own will entail. Abandoned by their feckless father, Rose and her family must move beyond their comfortable drawing room to discover a world of kind patrons, music teachers, and concert hall acclaim, but also domestic strife, anti-Semitism, and social pressure to marry. Set before World War I, Rebecca West's intimate, eloquent family portrait brings to life a time when women recognized their own voices and the joys of living off one's own talents.
La noche interrumpida continúa la trilogía de la inolvidable familia Aubrey en los albores del siglo xx, cuando la mayoría de edad de las chicas, con su aceptación gradual del amor y la pérdida, se torna aún más conmovedora a medida que se suceden los acontecimientos que desembocarán en la Primera Guerra Mundial y sus dramáticas consecuencias.