Wide Sargasso Sea

A Novel

Paperback, 192 pages

English language

Published June 19, 1992 by W. W. Norton.

ISBN:
978-0-393-30880-8
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OCLC Number:
969401995

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4 stars (21 reviews)

Jean Rhys's reputation was made upon the publication of this passionate and heartbreaking novel, in which she brings into the light one of fiction's most mysterious characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Set in the Caribbean, its heroine is Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Rochester. In this best-selling novel, Rhys portrays a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind. --back cover

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Review of 'Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Jeg skjønner når jeg leser det at det er viktig og leseverdig litteratur, men noen ganger står leseren i veien for litteraturen, noe som er tilfelle denne gangen. Uansett: En Goodreads-stjerne sier ikke noe om boken, bare om dens møte med meg som sitter på den andre siden, og denne gangen var møtet bare helt greit.

Review of 'Wide Sargasso Sea' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

One more on the Modern Library list of the 100 best American works of fiction in the 20th century that I hadn't read. It is usually reviewed as the story of the first Mrs. Rochester in Jane Eyre, and that may have been some stimulus to the author, but it is not a necessary element of the story. The protagonist cracks up slowly during the course of the events depicted and in a lush tropical Caribbean background replete with racism, continental vs island social clashes, voodoo and various human short-comings. Some reviewers have complained that these things are not a cause of insanity, but it is a work of art, not a medical text - and I think there must be some autobiographical component.

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