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Lädt ... The limit (1974)von Rosalind Belben
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A brief, potent, and audaciously written novel about a husband caring for his dying wife, and the shifting nature of their relationship as the end approaches. Anna, an Englishwoman, has married, quite late in life, a merchant marine officer, an Italian. Beginning-and ending-at a point shortly before her death, the story told in The Limit focuses attention on her past and his future along lines of narrowing perspective. In the ten years of this odd couple's life together, the limits of devotion have somehow been reached. And yet, when Anna can no longer speak and appears to understand nothing, Ilario feels closer to her than ever. But Anna, so old, ill, and wasted, is a child again. This altogether singular, remarkable novel has been as good as unobtainable for decades. Its reissue has been long awaited by Rosalind Belben's admirers. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The narrative is in short chunks, jumping in time from her childhood to his life after her death to the present moments in her hospital bed, and it is mostly stream of consciousness----sometimes hers and sometimes his.
At the level of individual sentences, there are some very evocative moments. At the level of an overall plot, it is simple; she dies.
Along the way we are given enough to infer much without being told directly---her childhood, his rawness, their sexual problems, hear illness, etc.
Very interesting book that, despite its relative brevity, is a slow and careful read. ( )