Sylvia Townsend WarnerVezi magazinul Libris- 3 stele, bazat pe 1 voturi
The book] I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is Lolly Willowes, the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favor of freedom and the most unexpected of alliances.
It completely blindsided me: Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness.
- Helen Macdonald in The New York Times Book Review 's By the Book.
In Lolly Willowes , Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break way from her controlling family--a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange.
Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of twentieth-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.
