Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
translation of Joseph C.
Ed
Impedimenta vouchers, 2009. 222 pp
19 euros
Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize in 1972, is a novel told like a story. Everything happens in the southern United States. Laurel is a woman McKelva middle-aged war widow, daughter of Judge McKelva, kindly man who, having been widowed a few years ago, Fay decides to marry, women self-centered, pampered, spoiled and younger than his daughter. The judge has to submit to surgery and died several days later, in full Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Both women lead the judge to his parents' home in Mount Salus, and having lost the bond that united them, there are differences of character. At the funeral of the judge, the town turns into Laurel breast-side to the young widow so they decide to leave with his family to recover from the blow and return after taking possession of the judge's house.
Optimist's Daughter is a remarkable novel. What looks like a fairy tale ends up being a story where not all the good ones are as good or bad so bad. It is a journey back into the life of a woman who is reunited with his childhood, living with her parents, her marriage to Phil and strength to continue to get ahead.
Highly recommended reading.
Pilar I.
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