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• W2022108766 abstract "unsuspected aspect of Devon's character the author finally realizes that whUe she escaped from the stifling confines of her home, finding freedom , happiness and success in the friendher environment of the United States, Devon remained at home, his life stunted by circumstance. In a fluid stream-of-consciousness that reads much like a personal journal, Kincaid relates her own frustrations with the harsh circumstances that arose for her famUy because her mother and father could not properly support the famUy they had made. She writes that as a girl in Antigua, she did not feel love for her brothers or even for her mother. She did not like being asked to take care of these small chUdren who were not hers and having to forgo things that were essential to her life. Once she finally made it to America, Kincaid wished to be with people who had no preconceptions about her, or what her role in Ufe should be. This freedom to become whatever she wanted is something Devon never enjoyed during his rather short lifetime. This book is highly literary, constructed in such a way that particular memories seem to foreshadow later events as in a work of fiction. Kincaid distances herself from her famUy members so completely that they appear almost as characters in a novel. Yet what gives her prose such power is the reaUty of this book's plot, and its discovery of empathy for the lost brother. I highly recommend My Brother. (AW) Dreams ofMy Russian Summers by Andrei' Makine translated by Geoffrey Strachan Arcade, 1997, 241 pp., $23.95 This elegant novel caused a smaU international publishing stir when it became the first book ever to win France's two top Uterary awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Medicis. The attendant pubUrity and sales also baUed out Makine's floundering French publisher, Mercure de France. Makine, a Russian who received poUtical asylum in France in 1987 and who writes in French, is candid about the autobiographical nature of his story. Likened by critics to Proust's En Recherche du Temps Perdu tor its lush evocation of things past, the novel is equaUy reminiscent of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in its chronicle of a young writer's developing sensibiUty against the backdrop of an impoverished and oppressive homeland . Makine's story takes his sensitive , self-analytical narrator from boyhood to early manhood in Cold War Russia. Chafing at the aesthetic poverty of Russian life, scorned for his bookishness by his contemporaries, he develops a fascination with France and a sense of dual identity from immersing himself in the stories of his genteel French grandmother, Charlotte Lemonnier. During his annual summer visits to Charlotte's home on the edge of the Russian steppe, he listens to her accounts of Paris of the Belle Epoque. In effect, Charlotte, 186 · The Missouri Review a voluntary exüe in Russia, is as much the protagonist of this economical kiinstlerroman as the narrator himseU. The story focuses on his relationship with her and his appreciation of her as a remarkable woman who, even whUe bravely facing the horrors of the Revolution and the Stalinist regime, managed to retain the dignity and French elegance that set her apart from the rest of the narrator's eminently ordinary Russian famUy. Much of the novel concerns the differences between the French and Russian languages and their respective capacities to express subtle ideas and states of mind. Among other things, this is an account of the narrator 's struggle to love two countries: Russia for its inherent ridiculousness and France for its refinement. Convinced that language embodies ethos, the hero gravitates at first toward French, believing it to be more expressive of his sensibility. Later in the book, in a dramatic epiphany (the novel is full of such Joycean moments) he concludes that there exists an intermediary language capable of bridging the gap between the tongues. He terms it the language of amazemenf and wonders whether it can be captured in writing. Indeed it can, one concludes after reading Dreams, tor Makine has done it in a novel as intense and personal as it is..." @default.
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