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Loading... Fermina Márquez (original 1911; edition 1972)by Valéry Larbaud, Valéry Larbaud (Auteur)
Work InformationFermina Marquez by Valery Larbaud (1911)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Le temps qui passe, l'évocation des souvenirs et le drame de la jeunesse s'inscrivent aisément dans ce joli texte à plume classique. Fermina Marquez est de ces livres où l'on se demande parfois si un héros de quinze ans peut ressentir ces sentiments-là et avoir ces idées. Aden, Arabie sans l'emportement de Nizan. no reviews | add a review
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Or, most impressively, Fermina Marquez herself--sister of another student, and the beloved of all the older young men--looks to be nothing more than a handy catalyst for the young men to come of age at, perhaps a gauzy symbol of the unattainable Love. Then she turns out to be a model of Spanish Catholicism, almost inhumanly pious. But then she falls in love, and renounces her religious mania in favor of sensuality. But instead of this being a Love conquers Intolerance moment, she's deeply ambivalent about her behavior. Was she simply a hypocrite? What has she lost?
Also, Larbaud handles first person plural narration far more effectively than, e.g., Eugenides in The Virgin Suicides.
Another literary mystery for me to obsess over: How 'Le Grand Meaulnes' is a Penguin Classic, while this is out of print. Larbaud himself seems like a fascinating character, too; he translated Joyce, Samuel Butler and Thomas Browne. ( )