Unfinished Woman

1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-58628-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1954, Unfinished Woman is an ambitious, poetically written novel that combines a meditation on existence with an intimate story of love, loss, and self-discovery. Narrated by a woman of forty, it tells of a life shaped by two men: a sculptor husband devoted to art so completely that he sees her chiefly as a model, and a celebrated athlete whose beauty is only physical. In trying to live through them, she has neglected her own identity, finding it only in rare, symbolic moments of transcendence. Written after her husband’s suicide as a way of addressing him, the novel traces her journey from childhood in the South of France through university, war, and later life in Paris. It offers literature students rich material for exploring identity, female selfhood, incompleteness, and 20th-century social change.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scarfe, Francis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren