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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Reflections on a modern classic
By Jeremy Walton
Dimly conscious of this book's status as a modern classic, I bought this for my daughter's birthday last year, and picked it up to read a week or so ago. The narrator is Edith Hope, a middle-aged author of clever romance novels, who has been sent to the eponymous hotel by her friends after having done "an apparently dreadful thing" [p9] back home in London. She ruminates on (her) life and loves, whilst acutely observing each of the small number of end-of-season guests. These descriptions are confidently and cleverly sketched in (so vividly, in fact, that they'd repay close scrutiny by anyone who'd found themselves at the same hotel as the author in the years preceding this book's appearance). Written in clean, simple prose and weighing in at less than 200 pages, it's an easy, pleasant and thought-provoking read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Love and Compromise
By J. Ang
A quiet and introspective novel, almost slim enough to be a novella. Edith Hope is a British writer of romantic fiction (under a more exotic pseudonym Vanessa Wilde, of course) who suddenly finds herself sequestered in the Hotel Du Lac on Lake Geneva, when it is off-season, and just before the hotel closes for the year.At first, Edith plays the part of astute observer of the sprinkling of guests still remaining at the hotel, as she delays focus on herself. As the focaliser of the novel, Edith is surprisingly reticent about herself, and she seems to be more of a narrator through whom Brookner paints the other characters. There’s Mrs Pusey, the deceptively youngish cosmopolitan shopper, and her daughter, Jennifer, whom Edith observes as a little too ostentatious in fashion, and a poor carbon copy of her mother. She too, seems ageless, and notably feckless in her devotion to Mrs Pusey. A willowy lady, Monica, with a dog, and who becomes something of a confidant to Edith along the way, and an austere and stout old lady, Mme de Bonneuil, who keeps largely to herself, rounds up the almost exclusively female clientele at the hotel, and Edith observes that they are all there to escape or are suffering some sort of abandonment, both of which describes her own situation.It becomes clear that Edith is banished not for writing a dud novel, or escaping there to hurry a draft of her next novel, though we see her laboring over the writing of “Beneath the Visiting Moon”, its title befitting of the kind of romantic novel that she makes no excuses for believing in. Although Edith describes herself as having a “timorous nature”, the reader sees the spark in her when she argues with her agent, Harold, on the kind of book he would like her to write: “those multi-orgasmic girls with the executive briefcases can go elsewhere. They will be adequately catered for. There are hucksters in every market place”.When deemed a romantic for wanting only a Hallmark-themed kind of relationship by a would-be-suitor, the provocative Philip Neville, she protests: “I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk, preparing a meal together.”The fact is that Edith is thirty-nine, and single, and the novel revolves around the tension between her self-fulfilment and what society expects of her. Is it practical for someone like Edith to still hold on to those ideals? Should she compromise? She finds that opportunity to do just that, and what ensues throws up interesting debates on the nature of love, the difference between men and women, and the often volatile and contrary relationships women have with one another, the latter which is summed up in Edith’s reflections: “Women share their sadness…. Their joy they like to show off to one another. Victory, triumph over the odds, calls for an audience. And that air of bustle and exigence sometimes affected by the sexually loquacious – that is for the benefit of other women. No solidarity there.”This is an interesting novel of ideas, articulated quietly and in a reposeful manner. The fact that it won the Booker Prize in 1984 provoked an outcry because it was deemed too unspectacular. But perhaps it did win because it refuses to be ostentatious and loud. Contemplative truths about the human condition need not always be hollered to be important.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Fine writing, limited story.
By KD
Anita Brookner writes well. Her descriptions are clear and evocative. The storyline of this book, however, is insubstantial. In my opinion, it would have made an acceptable short story. Unfortunately, the excellent scene setting and characterisation do not compensate for the ponderous, over extended plot. Pity.
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