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Ingeborg ha una sorella troppo bella e un padre vescovo anglicano che «non la vede» ma la sfrutta. Repressa, ma allegra e vivace, decide di fuggire, cioè di partire per un viaggio in treno sul continente senza avvertire nessuno, invece di passare una settimana a Londra, ospite della zia. Un pastore luterano che fa parte della comitiva la chiede in moglie dopo un corteggiamento davvero anomalo. Memore dell’ingombrante figura della sorella, che sta per sposare un buon partito, e dell’incombente figura del padre, pronto a rinnovare le consuete umiliazioni, la ragazza accetta. Ma il neomarito, completamente assorto nei suoi esperimenti scientifici dilettanteschi, oltre a trascurare i suoi doveri ecclesiastici, trascura anche la neomoglie e sembra a sua volta «non vederla», esattamente come il padre.
Proprio perché abituata alla solitudine in compagnia di altri, e quindi forzatamente autonoma, Ingeborg prende un’altra decisione, improvvisa quanto drastica.
E fugge una seconda volta, in compagnia di un pittore che la corteggia con foga. In Italia, Ingeborg – per la verità eroina molto distratta – si accorge che una cosa è fuggire e trovare marito, e un’altra fuggire con un uomo, un artista che l’ha scelta come musa ispiratrice…
Elizabeth von Arnim non si smentisce, e torna a divertire con una serie di situazioni paradossali quanto esilaranti, ancora una volta in nome della libertà femminile.
- ISBN: 8833932818
- Casa Editrice: Bollati Boringhieri
- Pagine: 436
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Elizabeth von Arnim has that elusive quality, wit. Unlike humor or books written to amuse and entertain, wit must be appreciated through the lens of the reader's own experiences. You read a sentence or paragraph, nodding your head and chuckling because you get it. And you feel intelligent because of Leggi tutto
I've never read such an apparently mild book that made me so wildly angry. Von Arnim is becoming a personal hero. (Longer review written at a greater distance included in my fall/winter roundup on my blog: https://shouldacouldawouldabooks.com/... )
What a delightful novel. Written by Elizabeth von Arnim and published in 1914, the story is that of Ingeborg Bullivant, the second and less obviously attractive daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Bullivant in England. Ingeborg has been raised by her father to be completely obedient and to be his secretary
This was my second von Arnim read, and I am rather amazed at this author's ability to confront complex women's issues and still maintain a light touch. By that I mean that the heavy issues are not confronted head-on, but are wrapped in layers of humor, heady descriptions of nature, and forays into a Leggi tutto
I enjoyed Ingeborg's brief escapes. Women going quietly about their work might suddenly break out and do surprising things. People you take for granted might have an inner life you never imagined. von Arnim has a predominantly negative view of men in most of her writing - it seems to have been her l Leggi tutto
What a roller coaster ride this was! I was so surprised at ever turn. What utterly perfect and marvelous character development. What exquisite changes in points of view. This is exactly what I read Elizabeth von Arnim for. She makes me smile. Sometimes she sort of breaks my heart. She never bores me Leggi tutto
English woman Ingeborg is a young bishop's daughter, charming and cheerful. The year is approximately 1910 or so. As the book opens Ingeborg is trundled off by her parents to London where she is supposed to get a toothache fixed, the country dental situation being not so good. She has a little wad o Leggi tutto
I believe I am getting to the root of what I love and don't love about Von Arnim's writing. I love her autobiographical and first-person POV work. I love her insights into life, love, and nature. I love her optimism and happiness and boundless joy at small pleasures. I love that she loves to be alon Leggi tutto
The writing sometimes almost reaches the poetic eloquence of a D.H. Lawrence - maybe this was simply a shining moment historically for English Literature. I had to give it five stars because she pulled off a miraculously tragic ending without inspiring utter hopeless agony in the reader. Genius tric Leggi tutto
I am puzzled about how to consider this book. On the one hand, the main character is over-powered by everyone else in the book except her preternaturally good children (who utterly creeped me out, innocent as they were), but has, as it were, two moments of happy personal strength (and it is strength Leggi tutto
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