A Legacy
Autor Sybille Bedforden Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 2015
Set during the run-up to World War I, a time of weirdly mingled complacency and angst, "A Legacy" is captivating, magnificently funny, and profound, an unforgettable image of a doomed way of life."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781590178263
ISBN-10: 1590178262
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 126 x 200 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
ISBN-10: 1590178262
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 126 x 200 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
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Notă biografică
Born in Charlottenburg and educated privately in England, Italy and France, Sybille Bedford is also the author of A FAVOURITE OF THE GODS, JIGSAW and A COMPASS ERROR. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of PEN. She was awarded the OBE in 1981 and a C.Lit in 1994.
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A Legacy is the tale of two very different families: the Merzes and the Feldens.
The Jewish Merzes are longstanding members of Berlin's haute bourgeoisie who count a friend of Goethe among their distinguished ancestors. Not that this proud legacy means much of anything to them anymore. Secure in their huge town house, they devote themselves to little more than enjoying their comforts and ensuring their wealth.
The Feldens are landed aristocracy, well off but not rich, from Germany's Catholic south. After Julius von Felden marries Melanie Merz the fortunes of the two families will be strangely, indeed fatally, entwined.
Set during the run-up to World War I, a time of weirdly mingled complacency and angst, A Legacy is captivating, magnificently funny and profound: an unforgettable image of a doomed way of life.
A W&N Essential
A Legacy is the tale of two very different families: the Merzes and the Feldens.
The Jewish Merzes are longstanding members of Berlin's haute bourgeoisie who count a friend of Goethe among their distinguished ancestors. Not that this proud legacy means much of anything to them anymore. Secure in their huge town house, they devote themselves to little more than enjoying their comforts and ensuring their wealth.
The Feldens are landed aristocracy, well off but not rich, from Germany's Catholic south. After Julius von Felden marries Melanie Merz the fortunes of the two families will be strangely, indeed fatally, entwined.
Set during the run-up to World War I, a time of weirdly mingled complacency and angst, A Legacy is captivating, magnificently funny and profound: an unforgettable image of a doomed way of life.
A W&N Essential
Recenzii
If you have never read A Legacy, run out and get it tomorrow
One of the finest and most original prose stylists of her age . . . Darting, confident, brisk, and brittle . . . Each image has been freshly chiselled or rendered with a sparkling and glittering wit
A full-blown, extravagant historical novel, replete with the turreted houses and liveried footmen, the loves and betrayals and purloined letters - a murder, too - which customarily enliven that form . . . The bright rushes of talk, the fast, vivid stories of how things were. I don't know of any novel about the early twentieth century that feels more real, as if you could reach out and touch the things in it
A Legacy takes the form of a kind of elaborate narrative scrapbook - consisting of fragmentary conversations, dimly recalled anecdotes, and oft-retold family legends interwoven with transcriptions of letters, telegrams, and newspaper accounts . . . The women in particular are arresting, memorable, as Bedford's female characters always are
I remember meeting an older lecturer and asking what he was teaching. He said he was teaching Sybille Bedford's A Legacy. I had never heard of it. He said I wouldn't have . . . It was simply a masterpiece, idiosyncratic . . . I read it and saw he was right
Its beautifully wrought depiction of human life as humorous and harrowing, interconnected and splintering, confused, unjust, and sometimes quite kind extends the legacy of the novel
A Legacy is Sybille Bedford's magnum opus, and a little harmony has been restored to literature now that it's back again in bookstores
A book of entirely delicious quality . . . Everything is new, cool, witty, elegant, and some scenes are uproariously funny
A Legacy lives by its delightful tart and feline wit, and by its author's remarkable gift for capturing the breath of Europe past on the glass of fiction present
A sophisticated book . . . For a modern reader, some of the pleasure may be nostalgic, but the thrust of its intention is forward
One of the very best novels I have ever read
One of the finest and most original prose stylists of her age . . . Darting, confident, brisk, and brittle . . . Each image has been freshly chiselled or rendered with a sparkling and glittering wit
A full-blown, extravagant historical novel, replete with the turreted houses and liveried footmen, the loves and betrayals and purloined letters - a murder, too - which customarily enliven that form . . . The bright rushes of talk, the fast, vivid stories of how things were. I don't know of any novel about the early twentieth century that feels more real, as if you could reach out and touch the things in it
A Legacy takes the form of a kind of elaborate narrative scrapbook - consisting of fragmentary conversations, dimly recalled anecdotes, and oft-retold family legends interwoven with transcriptions of letters, telegrams, and newspaper accounts . . . The women in particular are arresting, memorable, as Bedford's female characters always are
I remember meeting an older lecturer and asking what he was teaching. He said he was teaching Sybille Bedford's A Legacy. I had never heard of it. He said I wouldn't have . . . It was simply a masterpiece, idiosyncratic . . . I read it and saw he was right
Its beautifully wrought depiction of human life as humorous and harrowing, interconnected and splintering, confused, unjust, and sometimes quite kind extends the legacy of the novel
A Legacy is Sybille Bedford's magnum opus, and a little harmony has been restored to literature now that it's back again in bookstores
A book of entirely delicious quality . . . Everything is new, cool, witty, elegant, and some scenes are uproariously funny
A Legacy lives by its delightful tart and feline wit, and by its author's remarkable gift for capturing the breath of Europe past on the glass of fiction present
A sophisticated book . . . For a modern reader, some of the pleasure may be nostalgic, but the thrust of its intention is forward
One of the very best novels I have ever read