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In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II's arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. Then there is Frederica. On the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires.The Virgin in the Garden is the first novel to feature Frederica Potter, and the beginning of a triumphant quartet of novels. Set in Yorkshire in 1952 as the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the tale of a brilliant and eccentric family fatefully divided. The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully entertaining novel, in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and comedy intersect richly and unpredictably.… (altro)
Un bel riquadro dell'epoca, attraverso vari personaggi, nessuno abbastanza fasullo da piacere interamente. Mi ha fatto venir voglia di leggere gli altri tre romanzi su Frederica Potter! ( )
The virgin in the garden is set in North Yorkshire in 1952-3, Coronation Year. The plot concerns the Festival production of a play about Elizabeth I, allowing consideration of that period and of the problems of modern poetic language. The underlying theme is of metamorphosis, birth and death. There is social history as a record of the 1950s; treatment of one character involves the problems of the graduate housewife.
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For my son Charles Byatt July 19th 1961 – July 22nd 1972
Incipit
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In 1952 history took a grip on the world of Alexander Wedderburn's imagination.
She had invited Alexander, whether on the spur of the moment or with malice aforethought he did not know, to come and hear Flora Robson do Queen Elizabeth at the National Portrait Gallery. (Prologue)
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Susan darted to the cycle shed and eased her machine out of its concrete rut. Miss Potter [Stephanie] rode past, pedalling firmly, flowing gold and green. Susan mounted, shoved, swayed, set off. Stephanie descended into the declivity of the path that crossed the crater, in bumps and starts, braking. Into the crater from the other side, ponderously manoeuvring, came a large black figure on a massive black bicycle. As though, Stephanie thought, also braking, he had simply risen up from the sooty laurels the other side of the crater. ... He came heavily on, bore down on Miss Potter in a rut, clashed their handlebars, like horned beasts engaging each other. ... Stephanie hopped a few steps. entangled, caught her calf painfully on the edge of a pedal, stopped to rub it. Susan saw a long oily streak on the smooth stocking. ... Daniel, head down, manipulated handlebars and interlocked brakeblocks with ferocity. ... He had planned the encounter with his usual care ... he ground metal and rubber.
Alexander thought, surveying Thomas Cromwell and the mock-soldiers, about the nature of modern parody. It seemed to him who did not understand or like it, undirected and aimless: they imitated anything and everything out of an unmanageable combination of aesthetic curiosity, mocking destructiveness and affectionate nostalgia, the desire to be anything and anywhere other than here and now. Did these soldiers loathe or secretly desire warfare? Or did they not know? Was it all a considered Astatement@, as the painter would have said, about accommodated and unaccommodated man? Or was it just a hysterical continuation of childhood dressing-up?
He was aiming at a vigorous realism, and had great trouble with a natural warp in the work towards pastiche and parody.
Ultime parole
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That was not an end, but since it went on for a considerable time, is as good a place to stop as any.
In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II's arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Stephanie has grown tired of their overbearing father and resolves to marry the local curate. Anxious teenager Marcus gains a new teacher and suffers increasingly disturbing visions. Then there is Frederica. On the brink of adulthood, a love affair with a young playwright may offer the freedom she desperately desires.The Virgin in the Garden is the first novel to feature Frederica Potter, and the beginning of a triumphant quartet of novels. Set in Yorkshire in 1952 as the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the tale of a brilliant and eccentric family fatefully divided. The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully entertaining novel, in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and comedy intersect richly and unpredictably.
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