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May 15, 2007
Violette
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From this book I learned that the inner world that many children inhabit, as I remember having done (and I suppose still do at times), can be a truly wonderful as well as a scary place to live (though thank goodness not like the one portrayed in this novel!). Naturally, if I could read and understand French this book would probably have offered me a slightly different experience.
Pseudo-incestuous siblings extinguished by their fantasies.
I've been likened to Elizabeth. *worries*
"The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition." ...more
I've been likened to Elizabeth. *worries*
"The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition." ...more
Cocteau's films were familiar to me beforehand (for example the magical
La belle et la bête
(1946), the best film version of that classic fairy tale), and apparently the same thing applies to this novel: Cocteau's atmospheric stories are nearly impossible to describe with words, you just have to experience them yourself. The dreamlike mood of the story of Elisabeth and Paul takes hold of you, and doesn't let you go until you are in the abyss with them.
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Jan 21, 2008
Virginia
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Melissa Grace
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Dec 12, 2008
Deanne
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