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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. These stories were my introduction to George Eliot, and it was lackluster at best. I feel that "The Lifted Veil was an underdeveloped idea. "Brother Jacob" had more depth to it, exploring the deplorable behavior of David Faux. It had a real narrative flair to it. Unfortunately, neither of these blew me away. I have a sense that Eliot's longer works will be more worthwhile. Fingers crossed... This slim volume collects George Eliot's only two standalone pieces of short fiction. The first, "The Lifted Veil," I had known to contain scientific elements, but I did not realize until reading it that it was in fact a proper piece of what we would now call "science fiction." As ably demonstrated by the editor of my edition, Helen Small, Eliot invokes contemporary scientific terminology to justify the strange happenings of her story. It's a neat, dark, dismal story of a man who can piece the veil that separates us from each other and from the future, and is all the worse for it. The set piece that ends the story is dynamic and powerful. I'm sad it took me so long to get around to reading it, but glad to have experienced it. Though I don't think it belongs in my book project, I think it would be really interesting to teach in any number of contexts (an sf class, a Victorian lit class, a science and lit class). The other story, "Brother Jacob," is a cute example of Eliot's attention to character, and fun enough, but ultimately feels rather slight. It's not very long, but still feels like there's not enough substance to quite justify its length, in terms of either comedy or drama. But even weak Eliot is superior work! George Eliot does it again. This is wonderfully creepy and of course brilliantly written. Reading it for class I used two colours of tabs as markers, one for things relevant to the seminar, another just for the bits I particularly liked. The blood transfusion scene is so clear in my mind and so creepy that the pseudo-science of it doesn't even matter. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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`She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.'The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology and experiments in revification it is Eliot's anatomy of her own moral philsophy - the ideal of imaginative sympathyor the ability to see into others' minds and emotions. Narrated by an egoccentric, morbid young clairvoyant man whose fascination for Bertha Grant lies partly in her obliquity, the story also explores fiction's ability to offer insight into the self, as well as being a remarkable portrait of amisdeveloped artist whose visionary powers merely blight his life. The Lifted Veil is now one of the most widely read and critically discussed of Eliot's works.Published as a companion piece to The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob is by contrast Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading. Yet both stories reveal Eliot's deep engagement with the question of whether there are 'necessarytruths' independent of our perception of them and the boundaries of art and the self. Helen Small's introduction casts new light on works which fully deserve to be read alongside Eliot's novels. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I think I read this standalone last year. It's a somewhat Jamesian psychological supernatural type story and probably better if read in one sitting. It was strange but effective at having a very creepy atmosphere.
Finished Brother Jacob on 13 January 2023
I wasn't quite sure what to make of it. Was it a satire? A farce? Just light comedy? I enjoyed it but not totally sure what it was.
This version suffered from way too extensive and meanderingly pointless footnotes for both works.