Middlemarch

Uno studio della vita di provincia

Paperback, 568 pages

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978-1-5115-1099-8
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Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent narrative. Its main themes are the status of women, social expectations and hypocrisy, religion, political reform and education. It has often been called the greatest novel in the English language.

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Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.



Als ik toch eens één boek mocht uitkiezen over sociale verwachtingen, schone schijn en ontluikende verlangens! In Middlemarch schetst George Eliot – echte naam: Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880 – een haarscherp beeld van het Engelse provinciale leven tussen 1829 en 1832. Verschillende verhaallijnen lopen langs en door elkaar heen. Weliswaar zijn ze niet alle even intrigerend, maar tezamen vormen ze een innig beeld van het fictieve dorp Middlemarch.

She was usually spoken of as begin remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense.



De observaties van de eigengereide Dorothea Brooke zijn wat mij betreft een absoluut hoogtepunt …