The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go on to be short-listed three times for the Booker Prize) and established him as an astute chronicler of the human soul.Judith Hearne is an unmarried woman of a certain age who has come down in society. She has few skills and is full of the prejudices and pieties of her genteel Belfast upbringing. But Judith has a secret life. And she is just one heartbreak away from revealing it to the world.
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
von Brian Moore
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is an unflinching and deeply sympathetic portrait of a woman destroyed by self and circumstance. First published in 1955, it marked Brian Moore as a major figure in English literature (he would go on to be short-listed three times for the Booker Prize) and established him as an astute chronicler of the human soul.Judith Hearne is an unmarried woman of a certain age who has come down in society. She has few skills and is full of the prejudices and pieties of her genteel Belfast upbringing. But Judith has a secret life. And she is just one heartbreak away from revealing it to the world.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(1)
Rezension von Magdalena PoirierWer eine realistische Geschichte über die deprimierende Perspektivlosigkeit einer « alten Jungfer » mittleren Alters in den patriarchalen Strukturen des letzten Jahrhunderts sucht, wird hier fündig. Den Ton des Buchs ist grau in grau und die Perspektivwechsel, welche die egoistischen und beschränkten Motive und Ansichten anderer Charaktere beleuchten und auch, wie sie die Protagonistin sehen, sehr überzeugend. Niemand hier ist wirklich sympathisch, das Ende war für mich beim Lesen enttäuschend, bleibt aber rückblickend der grauen unaufgeregten Tristesse des Gesamtwerks treu.