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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
George Eliot is so much better than this book. Please read on of her other books instead. Middlemarch! Mill on the Floss! Take you pick.
My love / hate relationship with eliot has only grown 10 fold after reading this
no sé, en alguna crítica hi estic d'acord però tampoc cal rajar de tot
Wow, just Wow, I wanted to read the essay that gives this paperback its name and is wonderful, marvelous, amazing and so true it hurt.
Thing is, with some minor exceptions, this essay about "silly novels by lady novelists" describes perfectly the situation with most modern heroines and books with them as main leads.
I like understanding why I've been running away from books with female leads for a few years, is a pity to have returned to those bad habits,
Thing is, with some minor exceptions, this essay about "silly novels by lady novelists" describes perfectly the situation with most modern heroines and books with them as main leads.
I like understanding why I've been running away from books with female leads for a few years, is a pity to have returned to those bad habits,
"Every art which had its absolute technique is, to a certain extent, guarded from the intrusions of mere left-handed imbecility. But in novel-writing there are no barriers for incapacity to stumble against, no external criteria to prevent a writer from mistaking foolish facility for mastery.”
An interesting essay where George Eliot criticizes certain characteristics of novels written by some female authors in the Victorian era, since she considered these stories like silly, and with lack of deepness or meaning.
Despite the fact that I didn't agree on all the topics the author has mentioned in her book, I truly enjoyed reading this one. Besides, during the whole book (especially at the beginning of the essay), Eliot is trying to be so ironic and funny, that I couldn't help but chuckle out loud sometimes.
In a nutshell, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists is a short, very well written essay, at which her author expresses her opinion on that topic with a peculiar, but good sense of humor. I definitely recommend it.
By the way, Eliot, I’ll see you again when I decide to pick up Middlemarch next year – I think I might be ready for that journey (or maybe I’m quite ingenuous).
An interesting essay where George Eliot criticizes certain characteristics of novels written by some female authors in the Victorian era, since she considered these stories like silly, and with lack of deepness or meaning.
Despite the fact that I didn't agree on all the topics the author has mentioned in her book, I truly enjoyed reading this one. Besides, during the whole book (especially at the beginning of the essay), Eliot is trying to be so ironic and funny, that I couldn't help but chuckle out loud sometimes.
In a nutshell, Silly Novels by Lady Novelists is a short, very well written essay, at which her author expresses her opinion on that topic with a peculiar, but good sense of humor. I definitely recommend it.
By the way, Eliot, I’ll see you again when I decide to pick up Middlemarch next year – I think I might be ready for that journey (or maybe I’m quite ingenuous).
3.5 rounded down. The essay that gives name to this book is sharp, witty, and extremely funny. However, some of the other essays (specially the one about Madam Sable), are extremely dull, being just a recount of the lives of George's contemporaries.
I also don't appreciate the lack of translation for the extracts in French and German, since for non-native speakers, the mannerisms of the period makes them extremely difficult to understand.
I also don't appreciate the lack of translation for the extracts in French and German, since for non-native speakers, the mannerisms of the period makes them extremely difficult to understand.
4*
Qué pena que buena parte de este debate siga tan vivo hoy en día.
(Pero que no se nos olvide que, aunque escriban las autoras, el concepto de "literatura femenina" no fue cosa suya, y mucho menos su posición en el canon).
Qué pena que buena parte de este debate siga tan vivo hoy en día.
(Pero que no se nos olvide que, aunque escriban las autoras, el concepto de "literatura femenina" no fue cosa suya, y mucho menos su posición en el canon).