Spleen - Couverture souple

Moore, Olive

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1564781488 ISBN 13 : 9781564781482

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 1996

Synopsis

Dalkey Archive Press first introduced readers to this "best-kept secret" of British literature with the hardback Collected Writings of Olive Moore in 1992. Spleen, the best of the author's three novels, tells the disturbing story of a woman who goes into self-imposed exile to an island off the coast of Italy after giving birth to a deformed child. Filled with self-reproach and guilt about her son and her life (having yearned to give birth to something "new and rare, " she blames herself for her son's deformity), Ruth broods on what it means to be a woman ("nature's oven for nature's bun") and the inequalities between the sexes. Filled with the colors and beauty of the Italian countryside and in a style similar to Virginia Woolf's, Spleen challenges the assumption that women can't help but be tender and maternal, that their heads are only "ever-enlarging hearts."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1564781488
• ISBN 13: 9781564781482
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 133
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible