The Blue Hour A Life Of Jean Rhys

Author : Lilian Pizzichini
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079392
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys written by Lilian Pizzichini and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking biography of a psychologically traumatized novelist who forever changed the way we look at women in fiction. Jean Rhys (1890–1979) is best known for her 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. A prequel to Jane Eyre, Rhys’s revolutionary work reimagined the story of Bertha Rochester—the misunderstood “madwoman in the attic” who was driven to insanity by cruelties beyond her control. The Blue Hour performs a similar exhumation of Rhys’s life, which was haunted by demons from within and without. Its examination of Rhys’s pain and loss charts her desperate journey from the jungles of Dominica to a British boarding school, and then into an adult life scarred by three failed marriages, the deaths of her two children, and her long battle with alcoholism.A mesmerizing evocation of a fragile and brilliant mind, The Blue Hour explores the crucial element that ultimately spared Rhys from the fate of her most famous protagonist: a genius that rescued her, again and again, from the abyss.

Author : Lilian Pizzichini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781408801222
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Hour written by Lilian Pizzichini and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Rhys was an artist of brilliance and fury best known for her late literary masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea. But she was also a woman in constant psychological turmoil, whose blazing talent rescued her time and time again from the abyss. Lilian Pizzichini follows Rhys from her girlhood in Dominica, through three failed marriages and five misunderstood books, up to her death in 1979. This is an unforgettable portrait of a woman whose writing was both her life and her lifeline.

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393308808
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"

Author : Juliana Lopoukhine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000879062
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Juliana Lopoukhine and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Rhys' position upon the literary map of the 20th century remains unstable, even after Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). She shunned public exposure and yet, desperately sought acknowledgement by her own peers; she stood away from the modernist circles of Montparnasse, in Paris, and yet, explored a radically avant-garde writing which retrospectively makes her rank among them, while her always problematic authority places her in the marginalized position of the postcolonial author. 'Writing precariously', in the case of Jean Rhys, reaches far beyond a mere posture of submission or a necessity to cope with a lack of money or a 'room of one’s own'. Rather, it becomes an ethical and political stance that engages with forms of minimal resistance to forms of subjection just as the very precariousness of her writing thwarts any efforts to 'place' her or her work, to frame her characters or label her style. With Jean Rhys, precariousness is the site where voices silenced and bodies dismissed by a gendered or imperialistic power may be retrieved, until their vulnerability becomes a dislodging force that makes the power structures precarious in turn. This book reassesses the precariousness of Jean Rhys as a distinct positionality eliciting an isolated voice which insists and persists. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Women: A Cultural Review.

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141984544
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smile Please written by Jean Rhys and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393303940
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Morning, Midnight written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman encounters a life filled with desires and emotions when she returns to Paris after suffering from a bout of depression and alcoholism in London.

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Left Bank and Other Stories written by Jean Rhys and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jean Rhys
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393315479
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Martin is in Paris and at the end of her rope. Once beautiful, she was taken care of by men. Now after being dropped by her latest lover, she visits London to see her ailing mother and meets up with her distrustful sister, Norah. This is a haunting picture of two desperate women in a desperate predicament.

Author : Caryl Phillips
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718504
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A View of the Empire at Sunset written by Caryl Phillips and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s Paris, and then again in London. Her dream had always been to one day return home to Dominica. In 1936, a forty-five-year-old Rhys was finally able to make the journey back to the Caribbean. Six weeks later, she boarded a ship for England, filled with hostility for her home, never to return. Phillips’s gripping new novel is equally a story about the beginning of the end of a system that had sustained Britain for two centuries but that wreaked havoc on the lives of all who lived in the shadow of the empire: both men and women, colonizer and colonized. A true literary feat, A View of the Empire at Sunset uncovers the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, getting at the heart of alienation, exile, and family by offering a look into the life of one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century and retelling a profound story that is singularly its own.

Author : Carole Angier
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571276417
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Carole Angier and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An acute literary intelligence ... the reader comes to trust instinctively Angier's assessments.' New York Times Jean Rhys (1890-1979) had a long life of great difficulty. So inept was she in its management that her authority as the writer of five beautifully shaped and controlled novels appears mysterious: how could someone so bad at living be so good at writing about it? Carole Angier answers this question. Jean Rhys never denied that she used her own experience in her writings, but no one hitherto has understood so well the nature of, and reasons for, this use. On her way to understanding, Carole Angier discovered more about the life than seemed possible. Jean Rhys's childhood, her momentous first love affair, her three marriages, the disasters which befell her husbands, her drinking and its consequences: all are shown with unsparing clarity. Equally clearly, and more importantly, we see the dynamics of her personality as it underwent, and sometimes provoked, these experiences. Sometimes what is revealed is shocking; but Carole Angier's sympathy and compassion dispel dismay, and her brilliant demonstrations of how art was made of events and emotions restores admiration on foundations which are stronger than ever. Jean Rhys did not want anyone to write about her, but this first full biography put beyond question her standing as a great writer of our time, written with an intensity and clarity which mirrors her own. It is a work of exceptional intimacy, sensitivity and power. 'Remarkable, the definitive biography. It is deeply researched, subtle, sympathetic.' Claire Tomalin Independent on Sunday 'Mesmerising.' Washington Post