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Schwob Nederland (1) » 11 more Books Read in 2021 (1,771) 1940s (168) Read the book and saw the movie (1,054) Sad Queer Stories (26) Read These Too (140) Books Read in 2010 (400) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) MickeyMole | Oct 2, 2023 |   ) amoskovacs | Aug 20, 2023 | How long has it been since you've read a book where the writing is this good on every single page? I'd give it ten stars if that was possible. (  ) stickersthatmatter | May 29, 2023 |  ) Ghost_Boy | Aug 25, 2022 | ”You mean,” Captain Penderton said, “that any fulfilment obtained at the expense of normalcy is wrong, and should not be allowed to bring happiness. In short, it is better, because it is morally honorable, for the square peg to keep scraping about the round hole rather than to discover and use the unorthodox square that would fit it?” If you know anything of Carson McCullers’ life, you will realize that she was that square peg and she opted to find the square hole and occupy it. She never allowed herself to be pushed into the round hole and she is constantly asking why all the holes need to be round in the first place. Like her other works, Reflections in a Golden Eye left me feeling a bit uncomfortable and puzzled in the end. I never knew these characters well and yet I felt as if they had bared their very souls to me and I was asking to sit in judgment of them. They are despicable in so many ways, and yet sometimes so hopeless trapped and pitiable. Familiar and yet alien. McCullers always seems to be saying to us that we really cannot understand one another, no matter how hard we try, because most of what we know of one another is either a lie or something we have projected. We are all trapped, but the trap is inescapable because the trap is ourselves, our own convictions and hidden secrets and our own shortcomings. And marriage is not a solution, because we might try to meld two people into one unit, but that cannot ever be. The individual is born into this world alone and goes out of it the same way...with mostly loneliness in between. Carson McCullers is without a doubt one of the best novelist of our age. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Member of the Wedding would make my list of 100 Novels you MUST read. ( ) mattorsara | Aug 11, 2022 |
 Interesante novela en que con solo seis personajes logran crear un microcosmos en el que cada uno de ellos encierra sus propios demonios internos sin ser capaces de superar las adversidades. Lectura recomendada y de breve duración. Notable Lists
A new trade paperback edition of McCullers' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Magazine wrote, "In almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase." Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves. No library descriptions found. |
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