Based on a true story, Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the French Revolution. A best-seller in the 1820s, Ourika captured the attention of Duras's peers, including Stendhal. It represents a number of firsts: the first novel set in Europe to have a black heroine, the first French literary work narrated by a black female protagonist, and, as John Fowles points out in the foreword to his translation, "the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind." An inspiration for Fowles's acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ourika will astonish and haunt modern readers.
發表於2024-11-20
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The whole story is talking about loneliness and solitude. But should Ourika blame her agony on the society? Personally I don't think it's the problem of her social situation. It's about the personal conflicts with social environment and oneself. The solitude and loneliness seem subjective in this story.
評分一句話總結:大革命時期的孤獨,愛情與黑皮膚。
評分Romantic literature,focus on individual's suffering in relation to human consciousness
評分好姑娘都當尼姑瞭
評分“To work, in their innermost hearts, to make their souls worthy to stand before the Creator.”
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