Reflections in a Golden Eye (Penguin Modern Classics)
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"The greatest prose writer that the South produced" -- Tennessee Williams
"Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds."
The New York Herald-Tribune
"The novel is a masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's THE TURN OF THE SCREW." Time Magazine
"Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds."
The New York Herald-Tribune
"The novel is a masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's THE TURN OF THE SCREW." Time Magazine
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McCullers' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, is set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora.
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I picked up a copy of Reflections in a Golden Eye because I had enjoyed The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and hoped this might be as good. It is better.
Carson McCullers has that flawless limpid style found in the best 20th century American writers, but what is unusual is her capacity to take the reader into the hearts and minds of her characters, and the tenderness with which she delineates them.
One is left wondering - are these people drawn from life, or are they the product of an extraordinary imagination?
I could have done with a more thorough working out of the plot, and it is slightly disappointing that one sees pretty clearly how it is going to turn out from the beginning, but when every line is a joy to read, who cares? It has to be five stars.
Carson McCullers has that flawless limpid style found in the best 20th century American writers, but what is unusual is her capacity to take the reader into the hearts and minds of her characters, and the tenderness with which she delineates them.
One is left wondering - are these people drawn from life, or are they the product of an extraordinary imagination?
I could have done with a more thorough working out of the plot, and it is slightly disappointing that one sees pretty clearly how it is going to turn out from the beginning, but when every line is a joy to read, who cares? It has to be five stars.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This short novel, like the author's more successful 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter', is about loneliness and failed relationships. Set on a US Army base in Georgia, a captain tries to ignore an affair that is going on between his wife and a major, while the major's wife slides into ill health. The captain's repressed homosexuality draws him towards a love-hate relationship with a soldier, who is himself obsessed with the captain's horse-loving wife.
If this sounds complicated it is handled in such a way as to be easy to read, though certainly there are a lot of subjects covered here, subjects that are obviously close to the author's heart. Besides homosexuality, loneliness and failure in love, she also touches on religious excess and voyeurism. McCullers peaked very early in her life, at 23, battled ill-health and died at 50. Her writing shows an amazing intelligence and a distinctive style, though I think this book could have been better if it was developed further as I found the characters a little shallow. I didn't care very much what happened to them.
If this sounds complicated it is handled in such a way as to be easy to read, though certainly there are a lot of subjects covered here, subjects that are obviously close to the author's heart. Besides homosexuality, loneliness and failure in love, she also touches on religious excess and voyeurism. McCullers peaked very early in her life, at 23, battled ill-health and died at 50. Her writing shows an amazing intelligence and a distinctive style, though I think this book could have been better if it was developed further as I found the characters a little shallow. I didn't care very much what happened to them.
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