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download Û eBook or Kindle ePUB ½ L.P. Hartley The Go Between review ↠ 103 Despre prezent si trecut despre inocenta si cunoastere despre trecerea de la fericirea simpla a copilariei la emotiile chinuitoare ale lumii adulte. Was there a telephone here in your dayNo I replied It might have made a great difference if there had been Leo Colston a man in his sixties returns in 1952 to the place where his life began and ended all of it during a brief interlude of glorious summer days such as England and Master Leo has never seen since With the help of the intimate journal he kept during his 1900 journey to Brandham Hall in Norwich County Leo Colston re examines the events that had such a traumatic arrested development anyone effect on his innocent mind As the introduction notes Hartley wrote the book as a memoir as an act of atonement and as a manifesto against the decay brought by two world wars and a social order turned upside down It allowed him to evoke a past a time half a century earlier a golden age as he saw it of Victorian morals and manners an age of innocence in the short time before its shattering What the introduction is less clear about and what the reader can only discover by jumping right into the text like the young boy dipping into the blue waters of a pond in summertime is how full of beauty and sadness how exuisitely written this trip down memory lane is The past is a foreign country they do things differently there One of the most memorable first lines I have come across in my long years of reading and a moving evocation of a fraught coming of age at the tail end of a pious rigid yet prosperous Victorian society Invited down for the summer to the opulent Brandham Hall by Marcus a friend from his public school Leo feels both enthralled by the prospect of mingling with the rich Maudsley family and anxious about his own social status I was between twelve and thirteen and I wanted to think of myself as a man also I was acutely aware of social inferiority I felt utterly out of place among these smart rich people and a misfit everywhere Leo has managed to find his place among his peers at school escaping the obligatory bullying and even gaining a reputation as an amateur spell caster Yet this new world of immaculate green lawns formal dinners white suits and dresses tennis and cricket and evening dances has him flustered out of his depth enchanted Most of all he is attracted by the older sister of Marcus the beautiful Miss Marian Maudsley who herself seems to be taking an interest in the young boy What did we talk about that has left me with an impression of wings and flashes as of air displaced by the flight of a bird Of swooping and soaring of a faint iridescence subdued to the enfolding brightness of the day My spiritual transformation took place in Norwich it was there that like an emerging butterfly I was first conscious of my wings With help from Marian Leo is out of his chrysalis his inappropriate cold weather clothes and heavy boots Leo is now decked in a highly fashionable summer suit in bright green colour and can take his place among the revelers On a trip to an improvised swimming pool he meets another adult that would have a major impact on his summer days Ted Burgess is not a member of the Brandham Hall social circle he is just a farmer out for a uick dip in the water yet his physical presence is arrestingWithout going into one too many plot details Leo ends up visiting Ted at his farm and becomes a bearer of secret messages between him and Miss Marian His innocence fails to spot the obvious reason for the illicit dialogue and Leo revels instead in the attention he is paid by the two people he admires the most Like many a young boy at that age what he doesn t know is replaced by flights of fancy Without knowing it I was crossing the rainbow bridge from reality to dream I now felt that I belonged to the Zodiac not to Southdown Hill School and that my emotions and my behaviour must illustrate this change My dream had become my reality my old life was a discarded husk Yet how long can this pretending game continue while real life happens all around Leo For a moment he is on top of the world when he saves the day at the annual cricket match between the Hall and the village teams or when he sings a Psalm at the game s afterparty accompanied on piano by Miss Marian But the higher you fly the most painful is the coming back down What an Eden Brandham Hall had been before this serpent entered it Master Colston begins to suspect that Ted and Marian are using him and that they care little about his own feelings either praising or threatening him in order to get what they want from him The Biblical references are intentional with knowledge of the real world being blamed for Leo s expulsion from Paradise and with the connotations of sexual awakening in Leo as puberty hits As older Leo inserts himself into the memoir he even holds an imaginary conversation with his 12 yo self Well it was you who let me down and I will tell you how You flew too near to the sun and you were scorched This cindery creature is what you made me Again I don t want to go into specific plot points about what went down at the end of that atypical spell of sunny days in East England but it must have been the defining moment for the author of this book an admirer of the old class system and a misfit among the trenches of the twentieth century I was a conformist it never occurred to me that because I suffered there was something wrong with the system or with the human heart Leo the conformist to the Victorian values is mostly in evidence on the day of the annual meeting between the Lords and the Peasants with the occasion of the game Cricket is than a game they say or used to say it is an attitude of the mind a point of view I don t know about that You can think of it as a set of ritual movements or as a ballet a ballet in a green field a ballet of summer which you can enjoy without knowing what it s about or what it means Cricket is also a stand in for class warfare with Lord Trimigham the refined war hero on one side and Ted Burgess the animal on the other while Miss Marian standing on the sidelines to reward the winner Dimly I felt that the contrast represented something than the conflict between Hall and village It was that but it was also a struggle between order and lawlessness between obedience to tradition and defiance of it between social stability and revolution between one attitude to life and another Older Leo feels betrayed by the selfishness and the brutality of the new age a brutality he feels he is partly responsible for after poisoning the Eden he remembers Brandham Hall to have been In a book rich in metaphor and foreshadowing Leo is obsessed by a wild weed growing in a shady corner of the Brandham stables Belladona comes to signify for him both passion in its wild secret growing and poison in its effects on other people He is wiser now but he mourns for the enthusiasm and the hope that he lost along the way Knowledge may be power but it is not resilience or resourcefulness or adaptability to life still less is it instinctive sympathy with human nature and those were ualities I possessed in 1900 in far greater measure than I possess them in 1952 Indeed before he was exiled from Paradise the young boy was putting down in his diary some very thoughtful lines about ethics and religion and politics the Boer War in that period Why should we call ourselves sinners Life was life and people acted in a certain way which sometimes caused one pain or Wrong was not a word I had much use for the idea of Right and Wrong as two gigantic eavesdroppers spying on my movements was most distasteful to me But surely something which might end in murder must be wrong This dilemma between his intentions and the results of his go between actions in the summer of 1900 will haunt Leo Colston for the rest of his life until he is ready to revisit the place in 1952 In my eyes the actors in my drama had been immortals inheritors of the summer and of the coming glory of the twentieth centurySo whichever way I looked towards the world of experience or the world of the imagination my gaze returned empty I could make no contact with either and lacking the nourishment that these umbilical cords convey I shrank into myself The tragic vibe of the account of the summer of 1900 is balanced somewhat by the returning visit of 1952 This reader feels that the author was not satisfied with the bitterness of his own failed life of his trampled sensibility and he wanted another voice to give an account of that summer Do you remember what that summer was like how much beautiful than any since Well what was the most beautiful thing in it Wasn t it us and our feelings for each other We did have sorrows bitter sorrows but they weren t our fault they were the fault of this hideous century we live in which has denaturated humanity and planted death and hate where love and living were Tell him there s no spell or curse except an unloving heart This epilogue raised the book from a simple five star rating to a place among my favorites Now I m ready for a re watch of the movie version I left out a long passage describing the relationship between young Leo and powerful Ted something that has been used in some accounts to justify a homosexual interpretation I don t see it given the stated initial innocence of Leo and the obvious interest they both have in the beautiful Marian but then I may have my own baggage of emotions and experience I am bringing to the lecture To each his own To me the uote serves to paint Ted Burgess as a role model and not as a crush I liked Ted Burgess in a reluctant half admiring half hating way When I was away from him I could think of him objectively as a working farmer whom no one at the Hall thought much of But when I was with him his mere physical presence cast a spell on me it established an ascendancy that I could not break He was I felt what a man ought to be what I should like to be when I grew up At the same time I was jealous of his power over Marian little as I understood its nature jealous of whatever it was he had that I had not He came between me and my image of her In my thoughts I wanted to humiliate him and sometimes did But I also identified myself with him so that I could not think of his discomfiture without pain I could not hurt him without hurting myself He fitted into my imaginative life he was my companion of the greenwood a rival an enemy a friend I couldn t be sure which Training Distance Runners replied It might have made a great difference if there had been Leo Colston a man in his sixties Principles of Biology returns in 1952 to the place where his life began and ended all of it during a brief interlude of glorious summer days such as England and Master Leo has never seen since With the help of the intimate journal he kept during his 1900 journey to Brandham Hall in Norwich County Leo Colston Lsc Evolution, Diversity, and Ecology re examines the events that had such a traumatic arrested development anyone effect on his innocent mind As the introduction notes Hartley wrote the book as a memoir as 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download Û eBook or Kindle ePUB ½ L.P. Hartley The Go Between review ↠ 103 Celebrul roman al lui Hartley a fost ecranizat in 1970 avandu l ca scenarist pe Harold Pinter in regia lui Joseph Losey cu Julie Christie si Alan B. The cruelty of grown ups manipulating children is endless What a strange strange story this is told in a double voice by a single narrator partly reflecting as an old man on the younger self s experience partly slipping into the voice of that younger self to make sense of a highly traumatising experience for which the boy had no explanation but which nevertheless explains later choices in the old man s lifestyle to such an extent that the summer of his 13th birthday in 1900 can be called life defining Unconscious of the grown up world of mixed messages and desires young Leo gets drawn into an intrigue full of passion and sexuality and of ambition and class prejudice Outside his usual social environment as a visitor to Brandham Hall a fashionable mansion in Norfolk and sexually innocent and oblivious he judges what happens to himself from the school boy s logic Bringing business letters to a local farmer from the young beautiful and spoiled daughter of the Hall he becomes a tool a go between who is successfully manipulated to play an involuntary role in a disastrously lopsided affair With his lack of knowledge and experience he manages to put the blame for the following tragedy all on himself and it leaves him scarred for half a century A social and psychological study and a coming of age story this novel reads like a mystery as well as explored inside the head of a boy who got shocked for life by being exposed to ruthless sexual desire and its social implications in class ruled England of 1900 What a bitter disappointment to see fifty years later that he had always shunned emotional life because of such trivial selfishness as his Lady Marian displayed To the boy it looked like a dangerous curseOne is tempted to throw in some what ifsWhat if the affair had been allowed to run its course Wouldn t Marian have tired of her lover and moved on to something else to occupy her mind Wouldn t Ted have had a chance to start a genuine relationship or to die in one of the wars on offer as his son and Marian s brothers didWhat if Leo had remained at the Hall to see the d nouement Wouldn t he have calmed down and been able to let it goBut that is the thing with brilliant novels They leave you wondering for days knowing full well that the plot played out the way it did because it had to Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture roman al lui Hartley a fost ecranizat in 1970 avandu l ca scenarist pe Harold Pinter in Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution regia lui Joseph Losey cu Julie Christie si Alan B. 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download Û eBook or Kindle ePUB ½ L.P. Hartley The Go Between review ↠ 103 Ates in rolurile principale pelicula fiind distinsa cu Palme d'Or la Festivalul de la Cannes in 1971Mesagerul este o poveste magica si emotionanta. Hartley has taken my breath away with the sweep of his story and the majesty of his writing This book was published when he was fifty eight in 1953 and evokes England before the wars uickly simply effortlessly T ib n Intro p x Hartley in an interview wroteI wanted to evoke the feeling of that summer in 1900 the long stretch of fine weather and also the confidence in life the belief that all s well with the world which everyone seemed to enjoy before the First World WarThe Boer War was a local affair and so I was able to set my little private tragedy against a general background of security and happinessOstensibly this is a story about a thirteen year old private school boy Leo at the turn of the twentieth century spending a month in the summer at the house of a wealthier school chum Marcus It is told from the perspective of that same boy years later and remembering back He hints at some dark and irremediable end that casts a shadow through the warm and carefree beginnings of that seminal summerThis is a slow slide told through innumerable details into the deep end of the pool but we hardly even struggle as the dim end comes We are watching the process the progress of our descent Our boy Leo got a new set of clothes fell helplessly in love with distant Marian the older sister of Marcus and had days of discovery on his own when Marcus came down sick and had to stay in bed Leo never does get to wear his new swim suit though I waited for that moment almost as anxiously as I did the larger d nouement that loomed on the horizon that steamy summer Somehow I thought that nakedness and bathing and water and the thrill of danger would be intertwined with the finish but that was just another beautifully executed feint where ordinary things take on the weight of portent The gentle teasing story of that languid summer is that moment in a life when mysteries are revealed truths are uncovered futures are altered and no one is ever the same again The miracle is that Hartley captured it so completely the sensual detail caught with the enthusiasm and wonder of a boy s eye the rippling muscle of the farmer the shock of cold steel and weight of the gun stock the smell of Marian s perfume and the rustle of her satins as her white arms stretched over recalcitrant piano keysBut the best the very best is the way Hartley brings his story to a close We hold on through the summer with stomach clenched when the crisis comes we are ready but Hartley teases us on with another suspense and then another until we are slowly sated satisfied and feel older wiser wistful I adored character Marian at the end while I hated her throughout much of the story It was the older man s eyes and her own words that make this transformation but it made her life and his a celebration rather than a tragedy Only time and distance bestows that grace and Hartley was wise enough to tweek our emotions that one last time This is the cusp of manhood story that school children should read but aspiring authors could do worse than study how Hartley did thisA final word Hartley was a book reviewer foremost and often read as many as five novels a week and reckoned that in all he must have read well over six thousand books T ib n Intro p vi Would that our man were alive and writing today we would be ever the richer