The pseudonym of carmen mola It is today symptomatic of the change of the times. Three men who write with that female pseudonym ... Beyond opportunism or even the expected coup of the final marketing achieved with the Planet Award 2021, the matter, seen from a positive perspective, makes us see that novels of any gender in feminine already have equal consideration. Something as natural now as strange not so long ago.
Because we well know how critics used to spend their time in many countries until well into the 20th century... The thing is that phobias overcome and prejudices abandoned, time puts in its place the work of an author who, on the other hand, did not always He dealt with the necessary protest temptations to focus on writing just because. Naturally, historical circumstances mark her work, slipping the necessary doses of criticism towards a corseted and reactionary society, especially in her work. Middlemarch.
But beyond the descriptive of the context or the sociological scourge when he played (ironies through which they splashed anywhere), Evans abounded in the soul of his characters, in the existential, the moral and the religious as essential components of the human will. And even the fantastic also attracted her at times in haunting narratives.
George Eliot's Top 3 Recommended Novels
Silas Marner
The most transcendent epic is the one that makes a protagonist rise from his ashes. That starting from scratch points to the possibility that, when misfortune returns, one will already know how to play cards.
Silas Marner is an unhappy man who, after a love disappointment and an accusation of theft, flees his city and settles as a weaver in the town of Raveloe, where he leads a quiet life, although lonely and uprooted, dedicating himself body and soul to work and accumulate money. One fine day his savings disappear and, shortly after, as if it were a trade of fate, an abandoned girl appears whom he adopts. Your care and education will change your life.
This story, admired by Henry James, Virginia Wolf and Queen Victoria herself, was considered by critics as a true masterpiece and masterfully recreates both the rural England of the time and the ins and outs of the human heart.
The silly novels of certain female novelists
Without restrictions, without reservations imposed by the social and cultural conventions of his time, with a fierce sarcasm and his own intellectual acuity, George Eliot relentlessly takes its toll in "The Silly Novels of Certain Novelist Ladies" to the mistakes of the narrative. more coarse of some famous writers of his time.
In what was her most famous essay, the subject of which continues to arouse controversy today, the brilliant English author raises her thesis with a touch of irony based on representative examples of predictable plots, falsified characters, mimicked styles and dialogues. implausible that certain female novelists put at the service of their moralizing, prosaic or, directly, boastful pretensions. Sharp, hilarious and deeply lucid, George Eliot parodies the topical novels that dominated the sales charts of his time, with their charming and beautiful heroines and predictable sugary endings.
The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob
Every writer can be discovered to a greater extent in his or her oddities. Because when one begins to write in an alternative or casual way, addressing unusual genres in one's bibliography, a special sensitivity is awakened, spread over new scenarios.
This volume brings together two of the few short novels that George Eliot wrote. In The Lifted Veil (1859) the young Mortimer unexpectedly acquires the gift of reading the minds of others: only the fiancée of his older brother resists him and, nevertheless, a vision announces that he will marry her. In Brother Jacob (1860), through the adventures of David Faux (who, as a pastry chef's apprentice, aspires to be a great character in the West Indies, where he emigrated after stealing his mother's savings) and his brother, the idiot Jacob, a straight and hilarious fable is erected.
