tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post6938105829922332840..comments2023-08-26T02:27:21.897-07:00Comments on Frisbee: A Book Journal: The Death of the Heart & Friends and RelationsFrisbeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-25951565713173187422011-06-08T04:10:54.870-07:002011-06-08T04:10:54.870-07:00Wimbledon Bookclub will be discussing Elizabeth Bo...<a href="http://www.wimbledonbookclub.com" title="Wimbledon Bookclub" alt="Wimbledon Bookclub" rel="nofollow">Wimbledon Bookclub</a> will be discussing Elizabeth Bowen's "The Death of the Heart" on <a href="http://www.wimbledonbookclub.com/events/16870393/" rel="nofollow">June 6th 2011</a> and <a href="http://www.wimbledonbookclub.com/events/16870400/" rel="nofollow">June 20th 2011</a>.<br /><br />Any and all are welcome but places are limited.Wimbledon Bookclub (@WimbledonBookcl)http://www.wimbledonbookclub.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-2051189774137339672009-03-19T07:57:00.000-07:002009-03-19T07:57:00.000-07:00I love Elizabeth Bowen, too, and have often though...I love Elizabeth Bowen, too, and have often thought she would be perfect for Virago Books. Obviously Bowen's books are still in print, though, without a Virago intervention. I agree about the hardness. When I reread The Death of the Heart, I tried to see the adults' point of view this time. But they are all horribly cold - even St. Quentin, the objective writer, who tells Portia that Anna has been reading her diary. Bowen's style is glittery. Cold and hard. Yet I admire her immensely. <BR/><BR/>I'll have to look for the film _Shades of Darkness_. <BR/><BR/>KathyFrisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-83616550222366745532009-03-18T20:22:00.000-07:002009-03-18T20:22:00.000-07:00I've been reading your blog from _To Serve Them Al...I've been reading your blog from _To Serve Them All My Days_ up to the recent Dodie Smith. I write here because I want to say how much I love Elizabeth Bowen. Her _The Death of the Heart_ and _Heat of the Day_ seem to me her masterpieces, with _The Last September_ only slightly behind (it's a particular local book about Ireland). She also writes exquisite gothics and ghost stories; one was made into a film adaptation for _Shades of Darkness_.<BR/><BR/>When people say someone is a stylist, it's a slight putdown. Bowen resembles Woolf the way other 20th century women writers of subjective novels of sensibility resemble her, like many in the Virago series. They mostly write about the same class milieu too.<BR/><BR/>If I try to say what's the difference between Bowen and Woolf, maybe it's that Bowen is harder, a streak of mad erotic passion (outside of him lies the junkyard of what does not matter), driving steel intensity. The imagery is denser: green people in blue woods. You have to have real poise to write a successful ghost story.<BR/><BR/>Your blog cheered me tonight. I enjoyed reading your new series of entries.<BR/><BR/>EllenEllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14979942382683140531noreply@blogger.com