Title : The Romance of Marriage - Jeffrey Eugenides - Book
Summary :
The Marriage Novel is the story of three American students, one girl and two boys, who meet at Brown University in the early 1980s. Together, they discover with excitement literature, sex, Roland Barthes and the Talking Heads. Madeleine falls under Leonard's spell, Mitchell falls under Madeleine's spell.
Like a character from Jane Austen, the young woman finds herself in the middle of a dilemma, between the manic-depressive lover and the ideal son-in-law attracted by spirituality.
But Reagan's America is not Victorian England, and love no longer has the same meaning.
Perhaps the real subject of this book is coming-of-age. Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell are the heroes of a nation of hypersexualized, idealistic teenagers.
Like the Lisbon sisters in The Virgin Suicides or the hermaphrodite in Middlesex, Madeleine learns about femininity by losing her innocence, without giving up all her illusions.
Acclaimed worldwide, this new book by Jeffrey Eugenides, released ten years after Middlesex, reinvents the very idea of marital intrigue. From a classic love triangle, Eugenides creates a masterful novel, a sparkling dramedy that is also the portrait of a generation.
Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit in 1960. His first novel, Virgin Suicides , enjoyed international success before being adapted for the cinema by Sofia Coppola.
Middlesex (Éditions de l'Olivier, 2003) has been translated into around thirty countries and won the Pulitzer Prize.
- EAN: 9782879299860
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