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Cargando... The Colour of Milk (edición 2013)por Nell Leyshon (Autor)
Información de la obraDel color de la leche por Nell Leyshon
  
Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   Natt90 | Mar 30, 2023 |  bibliron | Mar 18, 2019 | Como me aburren los alegatos feministas y las moralinas históricas a toro pasado, me he limitado a leer esta novelita como lo que es: un buen texto. Nada para saltar de alegría, pero bastante original y bien llevada. Todo el rollo reivindicativo se lo dejo a los que viven de ello. (  ) caflores | May 2, 2016 | bibliest | Apr 7, 2014 |
 The Colour of Milk is written in short sentences, with longer passages joined by lots of ‘ands’. It appears to have the simplicity of a reading scheme. Which is precisely the point. Because this is a story about literacy – or the achieving of literacy. For Mary, the book’s narrator, the cost of gaining that knowledge is high. Leyshon’s great skill in this novel is to convey both Mary’s outward personality and her inner thoughts through the same narrative voice. In Mary’s own concise reporting of events we see all her relationships in their nuanced colours. The Colour of Milk starts deceptively quietly, describing a life of rural hardships and limited prospects, but bit by bit, letter by letter, it reveals a world of potential that is shattered by human fallibility.  The year is 1830. Fifteen-year-old Mary lives a life of toil and cheerlessness on her father's farm. Outspoken, witty and bold, she has one bad leg and white hair "the colour of milk", a phrase used as a refrain throughout, along with: "this is my book and I am writing it by my own hand." Through the hardness, Leyshon evokes nature and the seasons with a poetic sensibility. This is where all the feeling is. The language has a biblical tinge, with many short passages and sentences beginning with "and" (there are hardly any capitals in the book). A constant flow of seasonal activity and reference to the natural world gives a bucolic flavour: "and in the morning and evening the mist layered and made the hills soft and the air thick"; "and Edna filled the kitchen with jars and pans and we were busy with the fruit and getting it into the jars, and harry dug up all the beetroot and carrots and onions and brought it to the back door and we laid it down in sandboxes and put it in the cold store and then we put the apples in the dark. and he sacked up the potatoes and we made sure the bags was tied and the light could not get in." "This is my book," writes a pale-haired farm girl in 1831, "every word i spelled out. every letter i wrote." Fourth daughter to a father who wanted sons, Mary is sent away from the drudgery of her family's farm to nurse the local vicar's weak-hearted wife. In the genteel, sun-filled rooms of the vicarage she learns to write, but it is there, too, that events take place that compel her to undertake her painstaking task. Leyshon is a master of domestic suspense and the reasons for Mary's determination emerge tantalisingly slowly. A cannier cousin to Hardy's Tess – truculent and possessed of a sly wit – Mary is nevertheless in an invidious position: betrayed by weak-willed masters and, though gifted the means to tell her story, powerless to negotiate the cost at which her knowledge comes. This is a deftly executed sketch of a lost geography: a story saved by an accident of fate that becomes part of the piercing irony at its heart. Slender but compelling, the charm of Leyshon's novella is to be found as much in its spare, evocative style as in the moving candour of its narrator. Pertenece a las series editorialesNarratives (88)
Elias Canetti escribió que en las escasas ocasiones en que las personas logran liberarse de las cadenas que las atan suelen, inmediatamente después, quedar sujetas a otras nuevas. Mary, una niña de quince años que vive con su familia en una granja de la Inglaterra rural de 1830, tiene el pelo del color de la leche y nació con un defecto físico en una pierna, pero logra escapar momentáneamente de su condena familiar cuando es enviada a trabajar como criada para cuidar a la mujer del vicario, que está enferma. Entonces, tiene la oportunidad deaprender a leer y escribir, de dejar de ver sólo un montón de rayas negras en los libros. Sin embargo, conforme deja el mundo de las sombras, descubre que las luces pueden resultar incluso más cegadoras, por eso, a Mary sólo le queda el poder de contar su historia para tratar de encontrar sosiego en la palabra escrita.En Del color de la leche, Nell Leyshon ha recreado con una belleza trágica un microcosmos apabullante, poblado de personajes como el padre de Mary, que maldice a la vida por no darle hijos varones; el abuelo, que se finge enfermo para ver a su querida Mary una vez más; Edna, la criada del vicario que guarda tres sudarios bajo la cama, uno para ella, y los otros para un marido y un hijo que no tiene; todo ello, enmarcado por un entorno bucólico que fluye al compás de las estaciones y las labores de la granja, que cobra vida con una inocencia desgarradora gracias al empeño de Mary de dejar un testimonio escrito del destino adquirido, al cual ya no tiene la posibilidad de renunciar No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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