Inglorious. Simply stunning. Honest, brilliant, arresting, and barefisted also wise, human, funny. A great writer who will be remembered after I am gone. Kavenna has wit and wisdom in glorious proportion. Kavenna writes as if possessed, as if on a mission. · Overview. When Rosa Lane, a promising young journalist, impulsively hits the send button on an email to her boss saying "I quit," so begins her pursuit of enlightenment in the jungles of cutthroat London. As she embarks upon her quest for a sense of purpose, she is deceived by her lover, surprised by her friends, turned out by her roommate, threatened by her bank manager, picked over Edition description: First Edition. Inglorious is British author Joanna Kavenna’s first novel, and I can’t say it makes me want to pick up any of her future work. Inglorious is the story of Rosa Lane, a writer who works as a critic for a London newspaper. She is floundering after the death of her mother/5.
Depressed Rosa, homeless, jobless and at the mercy of her friends, muses on the meaning of life in a darkly comic fiction debut. Kavenna (The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule, ) sets her heroine on a slippery www.doorway.ru's mother's death has triggered some kind of breakdown and she has begun to withdraw from the kind of life everyone else is busy leading, focused on. Joanna Kavenna (born ) is an English novelist, essayist and travel writer of Welsh extraction. Her six novels have been widely rated and appreciated. Biography. Welsh by family, with Scandinavian Inglorious, London, Faber. Inglorious A Novel. Joanna Kavenna. $; $; Publisher Description. A darkly comic novel about a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown, set against the backdrop of a London awash with faithless lovers, cutthroat strivers, and so-called friends.
Overview. When Rosa Lane, a promising young journalist, impulsively hits the send button on an email to her boss saying "I quit," so begins her pursuit of enlightenment in the jungles of cutthroat London. As she embarks upon her quest for a sense of purpose, she is deceived by her lover, surprised by her friends, turned out by her roommate, threatened by her bank manager, picked over by prospective employers, and tormented by all the bizarre expectations of the modern world. Kavenna is indeed a gifted writer, her prose is beautiful and Inglorious is an ambitious work that just misses the mark. The novel is relatively plot-less and the ending is unresolved and pessimistic. Kavenna’s wit and quirky insights turn what might seem dreary and repetitive material into an oddly compelling and subversive disquisition on modern assumptions. Perhaps we are all only “drifting in darkness, fumbling around,” or so begins to suspect Rosa, newly aware that TEMP (for temperate) might be the future, as she fades from view on a train to Paris.
0コメント