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Gladys Schmitt

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Description:Back in '42, David the King was pretty generally trumpeted as a biblical-biographical novel superior to the genre. By the time of Rembrandt, however, it was harder to distinguish between Gladys Schmitt & Irving Stone. The Electra story, for which the Greeks had many words--those of Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides, is in itself difficult to diminish. But anyone remembering the innately stately, sombre qualities of the more classical versions & recent film may find that this Electra becomes mourning indeed. Schmitt's style, a very frequent target of criticism ("verbiage", "lumpy lyricism") is given to a kind of female sensuousity. What the young Electra here refers to over & over as the "unimaginable thing," becomes an only too easily visualized reality--i.e. "wet, hot, eating kisses" leading on to more lubricious details. Indeed, the entire story is encased in a royally purple prose. The shift in emphasis from the original versions & from the title is very different. Clytemnestra dominates more than the 1st half of the book & her love for Aegisthus is given a very womanly kind of justification; she'd been summarily used in bed by Agamemnon & only thru Aegisthus is introduced to the pleasures of passion. Electra actually is a very shadowy figure from beginning to end rather than the obsessed, fated instrument of revenge. In the opening scenes, her symbiotic attachment to Orestes, her self-dedication to a kind of chastity are suggested; at the close she is seen wandering in the lower village, weeping over the graves, bereft & half mad--a little like Ophelia. & Schmitt closes her novel well before Orestes sends Aegisthus & Clytemnestra not so gently into the night. Whatever quarrels one may have with the redirection of the original story or the handling, no one will argue with the outcome: the readymade intensity of the drama & the author's name suggest sales of probable olympian magnitude.--Kirkus (edited)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Electra. To get started finding Electra, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 313

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: W.H. Allen & The Alison Press/Secker & Warburg (London)

Release: 1966

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Description: Back in '42, David the King was pretty generally trumpeted as a biblical-biographical novel superior to the genre. By the time of Rembrandt, however, it was harder to distinguish between Gladys Schmitt & Irving Stone. The Electra story, for which the Greeks had many words--those of Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides, is in itself difficult to diminish. But anyone remembering the innately stately, sombre qualities of the more classical versions & recent film may find that this Electra becomes mourning indeed. Schmitt's style, a very frequent target of criticism ("verbiage", "lumpy lyricism") is given to a kind of female sensuousity. What the young Electra here refers to over & over as the "unimaginable thing," becomes an only too easily visualized reality--i.e. "wet, hot, eating kisses" leading on to more lubricious details. Indeed, the entire story is encased in a royally purple prose. The shift in emphasis from the original versions & from the title is very different. Clytemnestra dominates more than the 1st half of the book & her love for Aegisthus is given a very womanly kind of justification; she'd been summarily used in bed by Agamemnon & only thru Aegisthus is introduced to the pleasures of passion. Electra actually is a very shadowy figure from beginning to end rather than the obsessed, fated instrument of revenge. In the opening scenes, her symbiotic attachment to Orestes, her self-dedication to a kind of chastity are suggested; at the close she is seen wandering in the lower village, weeping over the graves, bereft & half mad--a little like Ophelia. & Schmitt closes her novel well before Orestes sends Aegisthus & Clytemnestra not so gently into the night. Whatever quarrels one may have with the redirection of the original story or the handling, no one will argue with the outcome: the readymade intensity of the drama & the author's name suggest sales of probable olympian magnitude.--Kirkus (edited)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Electra. To get started finding Electra, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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