Book review: The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley
"The past is a foreign
country:
they do things differently there."
L. P. (Leslie Poles)
Hartley (1895–1972)
This is the celebrated
first line of The Go-Between, Hartley's novel of Victorian
romance and deception published in London in 1953. It can mean whatever you
make of it.
I take it as an
admonition….one must try to be aware of the unique and partly (perhaps
completely) inaccessible context that framed the actions and outlooks of those
who did things we think we're interested in…you know, it's not easy to think
and feel as the Romans did…
The 1970 movie with Julie
Christie and Alan Bates is a genuinely throbbing, set-your-teeth-on-edge
rendition of the book…give the book or the movie a try.
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