Book review: Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
A slim offering of historical fiction about Johannes Vermeer's enigmatic portrait of an unknown young girl,
circa 1665.
It's a breathtaking, tantalizing
love story….tantalizing because Vermeer and the maid, Griet, almost embrace
their passion, each stepping over the line without transgression, but not
without hurt:
Vermeer, the worldly one, the
master, tempted to the edge of the precipice…
Griet, the child innocent, heedless
of her woman's heat, trespassing unaware and ever nearer to the mystery that she
barely understands in the beginning….
She feels the lush weight of the earring,
his fingertip sears her skin, she inclines toward his touch, trembles with a disembodied,
virginal start of pain….
Quickly stilled, she sits for him.
He trembles—a long moment—with the rush
of desire, masters it, and steps back to his easel, granting her a little more time
in the childhood she is leaving behind, giving her a peace that will become a bereavement,
a keening memory….
They look at each other, mute, apart
yet bound, in flagrante delicto, withering, without joy….
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2013 All rights reserved.
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