Paris in the 1930s: Louis Grandeville has a beautiful wife, a nice home, a loyal servant, and a large circle of well-placed friends. His financial situation doesn't require him to work. Yet Louis is obsessed by the nagging reality that he never has and never will amount to anything.
He believes his life is devoid of any affection, of any goal, filled instead with a thousand trifles intended to relieve its monotony, populated with human beings he seeks out to avoid being alone but for whom he cares little.
The "Winter" of the title is in fact a period of four months during which, every few days, Louis commits to paper the minute details of his unhappy marriage. Although his wife, Madeleine, is the focal point of his journal, and his preoccupation with the minutiae of her life, mind, and body is dangerously obsessive, his painstakingly rendered analyses of her behavior tell us far more about him than about her, and about the harm two people can do to each other.
In its exploration of one of the riskiest of all human transactions - a stable relationship between two people of the opposite sex - A Winter's Journal is one of the most unsparing novels ever written on the self-destructive impulse present in all marriages.

lgli/Emmanuel Bove - A Winter's Journal (epub)

zlib/no-category/Emmanuel Bove/A Winter's Journal_27292218.epub

Bove, Emmanuel

Marlboro Press, The

TriQuarterly Books

Hydra Books

United States, United States of America

Evanston, Ill, Illinois, 1998

Evanston, Ill, c1998

Translated, 1998

lg_fict_id_2241607

Although Rich Enough Not To Work, Louis Grandeville Is Nagged By The Thought He Will Never Amount To Anything. He Takes Out His Frustration On His Wife, Analyzing Her Faults In A Journal. The Setting Is 1930s Paris. Emmanuel Bove ; Translated By Nathalie Favre-gilly ; Afterword By Keith Botsford. Includes Bibliographical References.

2021-06-18