Jane Bowles
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| Title | : | Two Serious Ladies |
| Author | : | Jane Bowles |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Peter Owen Modern Classic |
| Pages | : | Pages: 234 pages |
| Published | : | August 26th 2003 by Peter Owen (first published 1943) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Novels. GLBT. Queer. LGBT. Womens. Literature. American |
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Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfield at a party. Two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves, they go in search of salvation: Mrs. Copperfield visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the women who live and work in its brothels; while Miss Goering becomes involved with various men. At the end the two women meet again, each changed by her experience. Mysterious, profound, anarchic and very funny, 'Two Serious Ladies' is a daring, original work that defies analysis.Particularize Books Toward Two Serious Ladies
| Original Title: | Two Serious Ladies |
| ISBN: | 0720611792 (ISBN13: 9780720611793) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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I must confess, I picked this novel up only because Id recently read that the wife of Paul Bowles (a rather well-regarded twentieth-century itinerant writer and composer) was the author and was, herself, a woman of much talent but limited repute. I believe I actually saw her described as a writers writer.If so, I guess I aint no writer or, at the very least, I cant support that particular view of Jane Bowless work. Two Serious Ladies is, in a nutshell, bizarre and I dont mean because of itsSorry, Doug. I've never been on a bad acid trip (or a good one either, for that matter) but this book is what I envision one to be like. I read the great reviews, even went on-line at the midway point to see what I was missing that everyone else was raving about. "Avant-guarde, modernistic, hallucinatory prose" is apparently just not my thing, although I will agree with the hallucinatory part. At the end of the mercifully short 200 pages, I still have absolutely no idea what this book was about.
One must allow that a certain amount of carelessness in our nature often accomplishes what the will is incapable of doing This is a weird little book with the weirdest people I have come across. The two serious ladies are adorably weird. Adorably impulsive. They make something tap against the unopened doors. To remind that dont we all have that eccentric seriousness within us which we got chained and domesticated like the most docile dogs. They make something flutter within. To just go where
Im unhappy, she said.Again? asked Mr. Copperfield. What is there to be unhappy about now? I feel so lost and so far away and so frightened.Do we really need another unfulfilled-women-reach-breaking-point-and-self-destruct story? Dont ask me I happen to adore those. But this little gem from Mrs. Paul Bowles is not your cookie cutter crisis tale. Something inside these Two Serious Ladies has severely cracked and were along for the ride. These oddball seekers are a little fancy and a little artsy,
By the time I felt like I was finally getting a handle on this bitter, black-hearted little novel, it was all over. As I quickly discovered, to make the acquaintance of these titular two ladies is to be initiated into a state of perpetual disorientation; I was not, Ill frankly admit, adequately prepared, even if Bowless novel frequently brought to mind the work of her contemporaries Djuna Barnes and Flannery O'Connor, two favorites of mine.All three authors have an uncanny ability to distill
This is a deeply weird book that I adored and will probably pick up and read a few more times over the years. Jane Bowles (wife of Paul) produced only this novel, a play, and some short stories and letters, but she has a cult following that apparently included Tennessee Williams, who called this his favorite book.It just so happens that there's a passage about gin that will give you a taste of her weirdly wonderful style:"Now for a little spot of gin to chase my troubles away. There just isn't
This novel appears to have been written by someone who has not the faintest idea of what a novel actually is, who has overheard someone describing a novel very poorly once and thought ah, I must do that. And it further appears that the author has only the remotest notion of what human beings are like, what happens in peoples lives, why they do they things they do. Also, it seems quite possible that the author was quite drunk when she wrote this, since it has the zoned-out zigzag attention span
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