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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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This is actually one of von Arnim’s darker works in my opinion. ‘Vera’ takes the cake on that front. But when you read passages like what is below…it made me apprehensive when I was reading stuff like this (Ingeborg, one of the main protagonists, during and after childbirth). • “And still later, when Leggi tutto
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
Look at the title—this is a story about the pastor’s wife, Ingeborg. Before becoming the pastor’s wife, she was the Bishop’s daughter. Later, she is also a famed portrait painter’s muse and a traveler. The question to be answered is if she will ever be her own master Must she always be possessed or 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/... )
The title of this book makes it sound like it might be something about a saucy minx, married to a fuddy-duddy man of the cloth, off and about on naughty adventures with all the hulking, shirtless lads of the village! BWAHAHAHA!!! Not even close! Actually this is a very beautifully written, witty, spar Leggi tutto
I wasn't sure whether to be happy or sad for Ingeborge by the end of this book. She got the ending she wanted, but I felt she deserved better.
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
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