Scroll.in presents Deborah Lutz's new Emily Brontë biography,
This Dark Night:
Drawing on a vast quantity of unexplored archival materials, Deborah reconstructs the texture of Emily Brontë's days, bringing us closer to one of the greatest and fiercest writers we have, by showing us her creative process and her confidence in her strange art.
This book has much to reveal to readers of Wuthering Heights, as we accompany Emily around the wild moorlands she loved so much. Also threaded through with the contemporary politics and events of the era (from the early labour movements of the Chartists and reformists, to the slave uprisings in the colonies), and authors and locals that Emily read about or knew (from proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to the masculine lesbian Anne Lister).
Featuring illuminating readings of her poems, This Dark Night takes us inside the world of Emily's irrepressible spirit and wild imagination.
Atmospheric and empathetic rather than revelatory, Lutz goes beyond recording events and facts to immerse readers in Brontë’s way of seeing the world, where imagination and the moorland landscape merge into one continuous vision.
A thoughtful, imaginative portrait that brings fresh interpretation to familiar ground.
This columnist of
Europa Sur (Spain) talks about readings in general:
Lo esencial para aficionarse a la lectura es tener la inquietud de adentrarse en mundos y experiencias diferentes y, por lo general, es más satisfactorio que los libros elegidos sean resultado de una búsqueda intuitiva antes que de una recomendación. Por pura casualidad, el primer libro que -inapropiadamente- recuerdo haber leído de muy niño fue Cumbres borrascosas. El espíritu atormentado de Heathcliff, junto al carácter caprichoso de Catherine, y el áspero y desabrido paisaje en que se desarrolla la acción me impresionaron tanto que llegué a sentir como las palabras de Emily Brontë despertaban en mí confusas -y a veces terroríficas- emociones. Aunque en mi librería desentona un poco junto a La isla del tesoro o Cinco semanas en globo, sigue siendo uno de mis libros preferidos. (Manuel Sánchez Ledesma) (Translation)
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