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Novel on Yellow Paper de Stevie Smith

Novel on Yellow Paper

Autor Stevie Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mar 2024
I am a forward-thinking girl, and don't stay where I am. 'Left right, be bright.' Pompey Casmilus, Stevie Smith's loquacious alter ego, works as a secretary and writes down on yellow office paper this wickedly amusing novel. "Dear Reader," she addresses us politely in the whirlwind of her opinions on death, sex, anti-Semitism, art, Greek tragedy, friendship, marriage, Nazism, gossip, and the suburbs. But most of all Pompey talks about love.
When Smith first tried to get her poems published in 1935, she was told by a publisher to "go away and write a novel." Novel on Yellow Paper, the happy result of this advice, made its author an instant celebrity and was acclaimed as "a curious, amusing, provocative and very serious piece of work" (The London Times Literary Supplement, 1936).
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ISBN-13: 9780811231671
ISBN-10: 0811231674
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 130 x 193 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company

Descriere

Pompey Casmilus, Stevie Smith's loquacious alter ego and heroine, works as a secretary and writes down on yellow office paper this wickedly amusing and brainy novel.

"Dear Reader," she addresses us politely in the whirlwind of her opinions on death, sex, anti-Semitism, art, Greek tragedy, friendship, her Aunt (the magnificent "Lion of Hull"), marriage, Nazism, gossip, and the suburbs.

As an energetic feminist avant la lettre, Pompey declares: "I am a forward-thinking girl, and don't stay where I am. 'Left right, be bright.'

But most of all Pompey talks about love: love for friends, love for Freddy--for Pompey is young and in love, but must she marry? Saturated with what Robert Lowell described as Smith's "unique and cheerfully gruesome voice," Novel on Yellow Paper is magnificent and a joy to read. Stevie Smith first tried to get her poems published in 1935, but she was told by a publisher to "go away and write a novel."

Novel on Yellow Paper, the happy result of this advice, made its author an instant celebrity and was acclaimed at the time as "a curious, amusing, provocative and very serious piece of work" (The London Times Literary Supplement, 1936).

Notă biografică

Stevie Smith (1902-1971) was born in Hull, England, but when she was three she moved with her parents and sister to Avondale Road in Palmers Green. Here she stayed for over sixty years, after her parents' death living with her beloved "Lion Aunt." She was the author of three novels and a dozen collections of poetry. Although baptized Florence Margaret Smith, she was nicknamed Stevie after Steve Donoghue the jockey.

Recenzii

A more individual talent than Stevie Smith's you don't get. An artist of utmost sophistication... Her pre-war Novel on Yellow Paper is an unforgettable work that has nevertheless needed to be rediscovered several times since the day it was first greeted, correctly, as a masterpiece - Clive James, the New Yorker
Virginia Woolf's roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . There are distinct intentions behind Smith's engagingly idiosyncratic manner, and every new reading uncovers further depths. When first published in 1936, it overnight turned Smith into a celebrity. It was swiftly followed by the first two collections of her poetry for which, today, she is better known. But the subversiveness of this novel has never lost its appeal, its greatness lying in its exuberant celebration of the uncircumscribed spirit
Stevie Smith captures, with exquisite stillness and delicacy, all the pains of love