The ​Marriage Plot 6 csillagozás

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“The ​way of true love never works out, except at the end of an English novel.” ­­––Anthony Trollope

The author of two beloved novels, MIDDLESEX (bestselling winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, with more than 3 million copies sold) and the now-classic THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (made into a haunting film by Sofia Coppola), is back––with a delicious novel about modern love.

It’s the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to the Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels.

As Madeleine tries to understand why “it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2011

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Fourth Estate, London, 2012
406 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780007441303
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Picador, London, 2012
416 oldal · ASIN: B00CC6DH7I
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Fourth Estate, London, 2011
406 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9780007441297

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Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot

Hm, most látom, hogy leírhatnám nagyjából ugyanazt, amit 4+ éve írtam a magyar kiadásról, de azt inkább olvassátok el ott: https://moly.hu/ertekelesek/1016759

A gondolataim most is ugyanazok. Az érzéseim kicsit mások.

Továbbra is lenyűgöz, ahogy Eugenides ír – annyira szépen, együttérzően, elegánsan, intelligensen – ez a kombináció engem teljesen elbűvöl.
Viszont most (már?) nem tudok olyan személyesen viszonyulni ehhez a regényhez, mint amikor először olvastam, és amikor még közelebb voltam ehhez a mi a francot kezdjek magammal most, hogy vége az egyetemnek és ki kéne találni, hogy legyek felnőtt-helyzethez, és (vagy emiatt, vagy nem) most nem találtam olyan borzasztó felkavarónak, mint korábban.

Szerintem legközelebb az Öngyilkos szüzeket olvasom majd újra – a kamasznyavalyákhoz és -szívfájdalmakhoz életkortól és -helyzettől függetlenül valahogy mindig tudok viszonyulni.


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She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book that she did reading it.

42. oldal

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People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld (opening quote)

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It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted another.

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Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. After getting out of Semiotics 211, Madeleine fled to the Rockefeller Library, down to B Level, where the stacks exuded a vivifying smell of mold, and grabbed something – anything, The House of Mirth, Daniel Deronda – to restore herself to sanity. How wonderful it was when one sentence followed logically from the sentence before! What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth-century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world.

47. oldal

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You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences. That was the hope.

275. oldal

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She used a line from Trollope's Barchester Towers as an epigraph: „There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

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It was like that Talking Head song. „And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?' … And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful house. And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful wife' ”. As he responded to the essay questions, Mitchell kept bending his answers toward their practical applications. He wanted to know why he was here, and how to live. It was perfect way to end your college career. Education had finally led Mitchell out into life.

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Madeleine's love troubles had begun at a time when the French theory she was reading deconstructed the very notion of love.

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College wasn't like the real world. In the real world, people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

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In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

77. oldal


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