The Age of Innocence
Impressies
- Diana Shamsdeelde een impressie6 jaar geleden
👍De moeite van het lezen waard🔮Verborgen diepten🚀VerslavendOne of the most intricate book on relationships. I had no expectations when started this book apart from this being an American classic, but turned out to be a deep and beautifully told story of a fragile balance of social status, responsibilities, kindness and love. The storyline is perhaps another version of man’s spiritual journey as in Pushkin’s Eugen Onegin and a male version of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. The main character is an extremely well bread American gentleman who outgrew the norms of society and whose vague dissatisfaction with what life in the New York upper class of the late 19th century could give have transformed into a love to an equally intelligent and passionate woman he could never marry. The final part of the book give the novel several more layers of meaning and leave reader with an emotional aftertaste which is hard to dismiss without reflecting on one’s own life choices and their price for oneself and others close by.
- veratodorovadeelde een impressie3 jaar geleden
💧TranentrekkendA story about internal fight and feelings storm, American classic.
Американская классика, стиль повествования немного похож на сценарий пьесы или фильма. - b4807310359deelde een impressie2 jaar geleden
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Citaten
- Diana Shamsciteerde uit6 jaar geledenShe and Mr. van der Luyden were so exactly alike that Archer often wondered how, after forty years of the closest conjugality, two such merged identities ever separated themselves enough for anything as controversial as a talking-over.
- b6592819865citeerde uit3 jaar geledenWhen Newland Archer
- Anna Osipovaciteerde uit3 jaar geleden
Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. At least that was the view that the men of his generation had taken. The trenchant divisions between right and wrong, honest and dishonest, respectable and the reverse, had left so little scope for the unforeseen. There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level, and surveys the long windings of destiny. Archer hung there and wondered....
