Frieda: the original Lady Chatterley
Autor Annabel Abbsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2019
Imaginea de deschidere ne poartă în Münchenul anului 1907, un oraș efervescent, saturat de idei revoluționare și promisiunea iubirii libere, unde aristocrata Frieda von Richthofen începe să simtă limitele sufocante ale căsniciei sale cu profesorul englez Ernest Weekley. Considerăm că Annabel Abbs reușește să surprindă nu doar o biografie romanțată, ci momentul precis al unei treziri intelectuale și senzuale care va schimba cursul literaturii moderne. De la rivalitatea subtilă cu surorile sale până la întâlnirea fatidică din 1912 cu tânărul și ambițiosul D. H. Lawrence, narațiunea explorează prețul personal imens plătit pentru libertate.
Subliniem faptul că Annabel Abbs își continuă aici misiunea începută în The Language of Food, aceea de a recupera din umbra istoriei figuri feminine complexe și de a le oferi o voce proprie. Dacă în lucrările anterioare se concentra pe rigoarea și pasiunea din bucătăria victoriană, în Frieda tonul devine mai pasional și mai dramatic, oglindind natura furtunoasă a protagonistei sale.
Cine a citit Lady Chatterley's Lover va recunoaște aici spiritul neîmblânzit al lui Constance Chatterley, însă Frieda se distinge prin faptul că ne oferă realitatea brută din spatele ficțiunii. Spre deosebire de abordarea biografică din A Genius for Living: Frieda Lawrence de Janet Byrne, romanul lui Abbs mizează pe o reconstrucție empatică a stărilor interioare, transformând datele istorice într-o experiență cinematică. Este o poveste despre curajul de a fi „cunoscută” și iubită, scrisă cu o eleganță care onorează moștenirea literară a epocii, fără a ignora sacrificiile materne și sociale impuse de convențiile timpului.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1473681022
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția John Murray
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de ficțiune istorică și biografie literară care doresc să descopere femeia reală din spatele mitului Chatterley. Veți câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care experiențele de viață ale Friedei au modelat capodoperele lui Lawrence. Este o lectură despre emancipare, identitate și curajul de a sfătui normele sociale, scrisă de o autoare care stăpânește arta portretului feminin.
Descriere
The extraordinary story of Frieda von Richthofen, wife of D. H. Lawrence and the inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover.
'Effervescent' The Times
'A convincing evocation of a remarkable woman' Sunday Times
'Clever and deeply humane' Observer
'A lush and absorbing portrait of a fascinating woman who refused to compromise on what really matters: to be known, to love, to be beloved' Polly Clark, author of Larchfield
Germany, 1907
Aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen has rashly married English professor Ernest Weekley. Visiting her sisters in Munich, she is captivated by a city alive with ideas of revolution and free love, and, goaded by sibling rivalry with her sisters and the need to be more than mother and wife, Frieda embarks on a passionate affair that is her sensual and intellectual awakening.
England, 1912
Trapped in her marriage to Ernest, Frieda meets the penniless but ambitious younger writer D. H. Lawrence. Their scandalous affair and tempestuous relationship unleashes a creative outpouring that influences the course of literature forever. But for Frieda, this fulfilment comes at a terrible personal cost.
'Hard to put down thanks to its heroine's audacity and strength' Stylist
'Another absolutely superb novel from Annabel Abbs' Historical Novel Society
'An incredible piece of storytelling' The Lady
'A compassionately imagined tale' Daily Mail
'Fascinating' Red
Recenzii
Annabel Abbs has done a superb job of chronicling Frieda's early life . . . Abbs is brilliant at showing the tensions between Frieda's numbing role as mother to three children, and her desire to live a sensuous, vivid life . . . I adored her
Effervescent . . . a wonderful portrait of an extraordinary woman
A convincing evocation of a remarkable woman
A lushly written second novel that contrives to be at once mischievous and testing. No reader will think of DH Lawrence in quite the same way again . . . Frieda emerges as a woman at once scandalously out of step with the #MeToo movement and wholly herself and it is this contradiction that gives Abbs's exuberant novel its compelling charge
A lush and absorbing portrait of a fascinating woman who refused to compromise on what really matters: to be known, to love, to be beloved. She, and all those connected with her, live and breathe in Abbs's beautifully crafted novel
A sharp new novel ... She emerges as a warm, intelligent woman in this nuanced, layered portrait
A compassionately imagined tale
A brilliant example of its genre ... Frieda is hard to put down thanks to its heroine's audacity and strength
When she meets the young writer, D. H. Lawrence, she falls so passionately in love that she gives up everything in order to be with him . . . the true and fascinating story of the real-life inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover
Abbs succeeds in portraying Frieda as a true bohemian and the themes of gender, identity and class are as poignant here as they were in Lawrence's novel. An important book with a strong narrative, it offers an insight into a woman's psyche and the many roles she played in society, in the home, and as a literary muse. An incredible piece of storytelling.
The fascinating life of Frieda von Richthofen, wife of D.H. Lawrence and inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover
In her first novel, The Joyce Girl, Annabel Abbs explored life in the shadows of literary fame. In her second, we are again in the sphere of early 20th-century literature, but with a very different protagonist who left her echoes in the often controversial works of D. H. Lawrence . . . Frieda is an extraordinary woman who incites remarkable passions in the men who love her . . the narrative is both skilful and restrained throughout. Another absolutely superb novel from Annabel Abbs.
I loved it.
Another superbly written biographical novel by an author who probes deep into her characters' lives in a way that makes them instantly accessible . . . Rush out and buy Frieda as soon as the shops are open.
An enticing and well-constructed story that is also a fine study of Edwardian social mores, female sexuality and political awakening. Frieda's struggle to find her place in the world -- balancing the love for her children with wanting to break free of stifling social constructs -- is utterly compelling and also feels relevant to a modern audience. Glorious!
Frieda's complex character is brought vividly to life, while the underlying debates about feminism and the nature of emancipation still resonate today.
A compelling story . . . Abbs' book brilliantly conveys the turmoil and anguish her choice (if indeed she felt she had any choice) caused Frieda, and recreates her complex, tumultuous inner world with skill, empathy and a refreshing lack of judgement.
Poignant . . . Abbs' novel emphasises Frieda's own sense of being a person in continual construction
Frieda really is an outstanding novel . . . glorious, vivid and immersive
A read that combines literary research with a skill for creating a fascinating narrative, Frieda breathes new life to a literary figure, and sheds new light on a literary classic. Fascinating, beautifully written and hugely gripping, it's a read that has changed my understanding of D.H. Lawrence, and comes highly recommended
A picture of a woman . . . with a very open and naive heart, searching for something, yet never really finding her true "self" . . . a multi-faceted novel that drew me in and took me on quite a journey.