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I have wanted to read George Sand since I first discovered Ellen Moers’ Literary Women in 1980. 39 years passed, and I finally read her!
This was surprisingly enjoyable. After a bit of a slow start, possibly typical of the 19th C, the story romped along quite breezily. It read to me like a cabinet piece, like a play. I could imagine it staged in one room, with hidden emotions surging to the surface and being repressed again, with the dramatic tension between passion and sense, society and self — ...more
This was surprisingly enjoyable. After a bit of a slow start, possibly typical of the 19th C, the story romped along quite breezily. It read to me like a cabinet piece, like a play. I could imagine it staged in one room, with hidden emotions surging to the surface and being repressed again, with the dramatic tension between passion and sense, society and self — ...more
