Winter Sonata

Had Ivan Turgenev and Virginia Woolf written a novel together, the final result might have resembled Winter Sonata (1928) by Dorothy Edwards. I know this collaboration would have been a challenge, among other things for logistic reasons, but the association was obtrusive. It is not the kind of book w......more

Breve romanzo singolare, molto inglese e molto minimalista. Scritto nel 1928, racconta un inverno in un villaggio dove si intrecciano casualmente e momentaneamente le vite di alcuni giovani di diversa estrazione. I protagonisti passeggiano in una fredda e grigia campagna (che ci viene descritta minu......more

(view spoiler)[ I kept on waiting for something to happen and not a damn thing happened of consequence in this novel. (hide spoiler)] The writing was OK. She throughout the novel would write about what the sky looked like, or what the trees looked like, and after a while it got to be a bit boring. Main protagonists are: • Arnold N......more