Daniel Deronda
Descriere
George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sympathetic relationship. Set largely in the degenerate English aristocratic society of the 1860s, Daniel Deronda charts their search for meaningful lives against a background of imperialism, the oppression of women, and racial and religious prejudice. Gwendolen's attempts to escape a sadistic relationship and atone for past actions catalyse her friendship with Deronda, while his search for origins leads him, via Judaism, to a quest for moral growth. Eliot's radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures that the novel is as controversial now, as when it first appeared.
Despre autor
Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans, mai bine cunoscută sub pseudonimul George Eliot, a fost o romancieră și teoretician literar engleză. Ea a fost printre scriitorii fruntași ai erei victoriene, romanele ei fiind o analiză realistă a societății provinciale englezești din acea epocă.
