tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534509012046591314.post4529744314280489991..comments2023-11-05T10:11:31.578+00:00Comments on Just William's Luck: 'But I was beginning to need that disgust more and more.'William Rycrofthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15056188088340973039noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534509012046591314.post-87815359450230080072010-05-31T12:46:41.078+01:002010-05-31T12:46:41.078+01:00Thank you for such a considered and intelligent co...Thank you for such a considered and intelligent comment <i>Kirkegaard</i>. You make some very good points, especially about books that feature unreliable narrators and their richness for possible interpretation. My most recent review of The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford has touched on something similar in the comments section. Morand's book certainly has a fantastical element to it, it felt very much to me like a waking nightmare at times.<br /><br />Your comments have go me thinking about it all over again, many thanks.William Rycrofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15056188088340973039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534509012046591314.post-19165907083328201032010-05-30T23:21:15.537+01:002010-05-30T23:21:15.537+01:00Hi William,
I enjoyed your review of Morand's...Hi William,<br /><br />I enjoyed your review of Morand's récit. I kept feeling that it wasn't about real depravity but about fantasy. <br /><br />The progress of the relationship reminded me a lot of the one between Proust's narrator and Albertine -- in A la recherche, the narrator suspects his lover of lesbianism, rather than paedophilia. In Proust's novel too, the narrator responds with jealous detective work, and also seems to slip into relatively licentious acts (though pointedly not homosexual).<br /><br />It also reminded me of Gide's récits, with the use of the first person as an unreliable narrator, prurient and Protestant, up against something overheated and animal: female sexuality. <br /><br />There was an interesting review in the Guardian which considered the novella as a parable about collaboration (and presumably colonization), with its co-dependencies: Spitzgartner, with his oddly German -- or is it Alsatian? -- name, up against the ancient French Christian-Catholic icon, Clotilde, with her powers of persuasion. <br /><br />I don't feel this little book will stay with me because it shocked me, but because it's ripe for interpretation -- the kind of novella that Barthes would have loved to tease apart.Ingrid Wassenaarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13674889921807440527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534509012046591314.post-11030271678956385232009-10-14T00:32:46.253+01:002009-10-14T00:32:46.253+01:00Glad to have teased you Kevin. The show goes well....Glad to have teased you Kevin. The show goes well. In a company of actors who are all covering various parts with a rotating holiday schedule (and injury and illness), we're seldom doing the same show twice at the moment, cast-wise. Refreshing to be working with such an ensemble feel. I'm currently playing Captain Sewart (amongst others) which gives me a chance to actually ride one of the horses into battle! The Queen came to see the show last night, on a private visit, which was a little surreal. She got a standing ovation at the end. After ours of course.William Rycrofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15056188088340973039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534509012046591314.post-62856157031810857082009-10-13T16:06:34.777+01:002009-10-13T16:06:34.777+01:00I have this tagged for its North American release ...I have this tagged for its North American release -- so this review is a wonderful teaser for me. And very well done. On another front, how goes the show?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com