Money

Victoria Benedictsson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

2017 | 2nd edition
Norvik Press (Verlag)
978-1-870041-85-0 (ISBN)

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Victoria Benedictsson published Money, her first novel, in 1885. Set in rural southern Sweden where the author lived, it follows the fortunes of Selma Berg, a girl whose fate has much in common with that of Madame Bovary and Ibsen's Nora. The gifted young Selma is forced to give up her dreams of going to art school when her uncle persuades her to marry, at the age of sixteen, a rich older squire. Profoundly shocked by her wedding night and by the mercenary nature of the marriage transaction, she finds herself trapped in a life of idle luxury. She finds solace in her friendship with her cousin and old sparring partner Richard; but as their mutual regard threatens to blossom into passion, she draws back from committing adultery and from the force of her own sexuality. The naturalism and implicit feminism of Money place it firmly within the radical literary movement of the 1880s known as Scandinavia's Modern Breakthrough. Benedictsson became briefly a member of that movement, but her difficult personal life and her struggles to achieve success as a writer led to her suicide only three years later.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2017
Nachwort	Sarah Death
Übersetzer	Sarah Death
Zusatzinfo	black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	204 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-870041-85-2 / 1870041852
ISBN-13	978-1-870041-85-0 / 9781870041850
Zustand	Neuware