Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
really hard to superimpose their own words to those of a great novelist. Difficult, even when the intention is to restore the clarity of the description, care, emotional attachment, as a father, to the flaws of those characters, to the description of that gray time past, he certainly knew. Towards honesty.
Chesil Beach is a book of "romantic" and poignant honesty. Quick to read the hard to digest, this novel about the twenties ... but not in their twenties, maybe. Maybe in their seventies now, who remember their teens in 1963, when our story takes place. Those young men and women, each with a thorn in the side, a tare, or culture, if you prefer, the illiteracy of a sentimental time not too far from here to be judged by us with amazement irreverent and a bit of snobbery. How important was for us to read the wedding night of two twenty-three English, not particularly neurotic or insecure, struggling with a win from their intimacy? Can a writer reinstalled historical scaffolding scaffolding to tell of feelings? The pen and a skilled hand can do everything. And then we know what to try Edward and Florence in the warmth of their hotel room on the beach of Chesil Beach, in love, uncertain about how to become adults, unprepared, forced to come to terms with themselves and with a time that falsifies the emotions , strangling any momentum, continuing obstacles stand in the way of love.
But it is not always the case, in every where and every where, that some alien force refuses to match the auspicious event, as with magnets of the same charge?
Well, probably not a story fit only for the teens at the time, perhaps it is not even simply a tragedy on availability of a means of granting a truce to care youth. Maybe we were wrong. That all read like trip, seeing it reflected in a puddle and try to recognize it is not easy. Whatever good or bad dispositions of History.
Good reading.
rating 8 / 10
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