Kay Boyle Books
February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992
Kay Boyle, a writer of the Lost Generation, crafted prose noted for its keen observation of relationships and social issues. Her early work, shaped by her time in Paris and association with avant-garde artists, often explored the complex dynamics of love and power. Boyle fearlessly tackled pressing political themes, critiquing the rising threat of Nazism and later championing civil rights and advocating for nuclear disarmament. Her distinctive literary style, marked by elegance and depth, earned her acclaim and awards for her short fiction.
This stunning short novel portrays a family--an almost grown young woman, her mother, and her drunkard father--and a magnificent blind gelding. Powerful and businesslike, the mother is determined to put the blind horse down; her daughter is determined to save him.
'Papa says we should have a child,' he said. 'A dear little child to run around and call us mama and papa. I can give it paralysis, what can you give it, my dear?'This extraordinary novel, first published in 1931, recounts the love story of the American girl Bridget and the young Frenchman Nicolas whom she marries. Bridget goes to live with his wealthy, close-knit family in their Breton village and finds there a group -- mother, father, sisters, and brother-in-law -- who love each other to the exclusion of the outside world.But it is a love that festers, for the family is tainted with an inherited bone disease, a plague which, Bridget slowly discovers, can also infect the soul. Then Luc -- young, handsome, healthy -- arrives and Bridget is faced with a confronting the Old World with the courage of the New she makes the bravest choice of all...In subtle, rich and varied prose Kay Boyle echoes Henry James in a novel at once lyrical, delicate and shocking.
Fuir avant demain
- 313 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Fuir avant demain est un roman de l'crivaine amricaine Kay Boyle paru en 1932. Le lecteur est entrain dans le rcit aussi mouvant que lumineux d'une escapade tumultueuse et dsespre dans l'arrire-pays grassois, au milieu des annes vingt. Cette fiction autobiographique tmoigne d'une poque littraire faonne par l'exprience de l'exil et tourmente par le sentiment de sa finitude. Paru en franais pour la premire fois en 1937, le roman est rdit ici dam une nouvelle traduction, propose par Anne Reyns-Delobel, qui permet d'apprcier toute l'intensit et l'lgance de la prose potique de Boyle, romancire moderniste unique.
Eisbären und andere
- 220 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Die junge mittellose Amerikanerin Victoria kommt Ende der zwanziger Jahre nach Paris und erliegt der Faszination des Künstlers Sorrel. In seiner Kolonie scheint sie den gesuchten Ort der Zugehörigkeit gefunden zu haben. Bald muss sie jedoch die Schattenseiten des alternativen Lebens kennenlernen.
