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S'està carregant… The springs of affection : stories (1997 original; edició 2016)de Maeve Brennan, Anne Enright (Writer Of Introduction.)
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A modern classic - a collection of tales about Dublin from an unsung master of the short story Never before published in the UK, Maeve Brennan's Dublin stories are unsung masterpieces. Brennan left her native Dublin for the States before she was twenty years old, in 1934, and for most of her life worked for the New Yorker, writing book reviews, fashion notes - and these magnificent stories. The stories, set mainly in suburban, lower middle-class Dublin between the wars, are divided into 3 sections: the first set of stories are autobiographical childhood sketches; the second and third sections contain Brennan's masterpieces - a series of tales about two families, the Derdons and the Bagots, and the disappointing, lonely marriages which lie at the heart of each family. Beautifully understated, every story peels back another layer, until the poignancy and emotional truth become overwhelming. Up there with the great short story writers - Katherine Mansfield, Chekhov, George Mackay Brown, etc. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Until Hubert and the holy picture, the redeeming Christmas Eve and some of the other Bagot (NOT the title one) stories, there is a major descent
into endless self-recriminating, overly self-conscious delineation of seemingly every observable physical and emotional detail and fear,
over and over, as people are absorbed into the unbearableness of close family contact. The worst were the creepy and deceptive manipulations of a mother to exclude her husband from the stifling intimacy she created around her son. ( )