A review by ilse
De grootmoeders by Doris Lessing

3.0

But these lives were easy. Not many people in the world have lives so pleasant, unproblematical, unreflecting: no one on these blessed coasts lay awake and wept for their sins, or for money, let alone for food. What a good-looking lot, smooth and shiny with sun, with sport, with good food. Few people anywhere know of coasts like these, except perhaps for brief holidays, or in travellers’ tales like dreams. Sun and sea, sea and sun, and always the sound of waves on beaches.


E. Phillips Fox, Australia/France 1865-1915 / Bathing hour (L’heure du bain) c.1909 (Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art)