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11 April 2011
The Red Lily is a strange little book about a married woman and her two boyfriends. It is set in a lazy, fog-glazed Paris and a brightly festive Florence, toward the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the book, the woman has a boyfriend who likes to hunt and is a little hokey but loving, which Lady likes, and to herself she admits, she "gave herself to him because he loved her." But what she really wants is to be in love. And I want that for her, too, because as she is, she is nowhere even close to seeming like a human. I got the feeling that Anatole France had written this book after spending weeks and weeks at the zoo, probably near the giraffes, and he based his characters on what he imagined the giraffes would be like, were they human. She does fall in love, or it is said that she does, but she doesn't ever overcome her giraffe-ness.
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Books I met: the red lily, Anatole France
The Red Lily is a strange little book about a married woman and her two boyfriends. It is set in a lazy, fog-glazed Paris and a brightly fe...
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