7/1/2023 0 Comments Trilby by george du maurier![]() There's Taffy (artistic poseur and full-time jock), the Laird (decent artist, relatively stable person) and Little Billee (sensitive genius and wimp). There are these three bros living in Paris in the 1850s, being Bohemian and trying to be artists, and they all share a studio somewhere near the Rue Morgue and do everything together. ![]() But I can recommend getting it from the library or here on Project Gutenberg, reading up to about page 183, or the party scene/marriage proposal, and then closing the book and returning it. Its ending will make you throw it in the garbage, if the anti-Semitism doesn't produce that reaction first. I can't in good conscience recommend this book. I am personally insulted by the existence of this book and angry because I finished the thing. It was the best worst reading experience of my recent life. And yet, it's the most addictive shitty novel I've ever read. It's both morally repugnant and poorly put together. This is the not-quite-supernatural-horror novel that gave the world the term "Svengali" for a hypnotist or a controlling older man with young female puppets. ![]() I recently finished Trilby by George du Maurier, grandfather of the more interesting of the du Mauriers. ![]() I've been taking the T to work lately, to give myself more time to read. ![]()
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