Mathilda

by Mary Shelley

Overview

Mary Shelley nunca vio su obra publicada: su novela perdida durante 140 años cuenta la historia de una mujer alienada de la sociedad por la pasión incestuosa de su padre.

Con la excusa de retomar un cuento inacabado de su madre, la autora nos lleva consigo a explorar los rincones más recónditos de su alma a través de diálogos abiertos y enfrentados con los hombres de su vida.

Un viaje introspectivo hasta esos abismos donde se esconden los tabús más desarraigados del ser humano y que Mary Shelley, en cambio, externa de la forma más íntima y Romántica.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544088051
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/16/2017
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

Mary Shelley

Deanna P. Koretsky is Associate Professor of English at Spelman College, where she teaches and writes on critical race and gender studies, literatures in English of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and popular culture. Her first book, Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism (2021), shows how cultural representations of suicide inherited from the nineteenth century continue to reinforce anti-Blackness in the modern world. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, UNCF/Mellon, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other prestigious grants and fellowships. In addition to her solo work as a scholar, Koretsky is a founding member of the Bigger 6 Collective.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Mary Shelley
MATHILDA
Appendix A. 'The Mourner,' by Mary Shelley (1829)
Appendix B. 'The Fields of Fancy,' by Mary Shelley (1819)
Appendix C. 'The Cave of Fancy,' by Mary Wollstonecraft (ca. 1788)
Appendix D. Letter to Lafayette, 11 November 1830
Appendix E. from Lodore, by Mary Shelley (1835)
Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

A sensation in France last year, this novel from Levy (Rendezvous, 1997) manages the impossible, combining the plot of a made-for-tv-movie with language worthy of a feminist philosopher-poet. For French readers, some of the interest of this novel stemmed from its rumored autobiographical elements (Levy's father is a noted philosopher in France, and Levy herself travels with European high society), but even if its celebrity references escape American readers, this beautifully written book deserves attention. If it can be said to have something so conventional as a plot, it recounts three crises in the life of first-person narrator Louise Levy. First, her beloved grandmother dies, then her glamorous mother is diagnosed with cancer and, most importantly, her husband, the successful and charismatic Adrien, abandons her to marry his own father's lover. These events do not appear in chronological order. They emerge as almost incidental catalysts for Louise's introspection. The masterful way that the story moves from random childhood memories to evocative sensations of taste and sound and touch in Louise's mind finally yields a rich, multi-dimensional portrait of a woman who believes that she is the creature of feeling alone. Out of a stream of random thoughts, a full character-elusive, contradictory and often very charming-finds her way out of the despair of losing the people she loves. Levy's prose is luminous-much credit should go to her excellent translator-and the novel is a marvel of construction.

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