NOSTALGIA

by Genevieve Gennari ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 14, 1964

A full-bodied, ultra feminine novel from the author of The Riven Heart and The Other Woman I Am traces with delicate, probing fingers the emotions of the past, in order to be free of them in the present. Odessa-born Natalie Elikof first met the raberts when she came to Availle as a governess at twenty-two, in 1938. Fascinated by the seventeen-year-old Diane, who aspired to be an actress, and her cousin Jean-ulien, who had relinquished his aspirations to be an aviator, she observed them in their created world of chivalry, where they willfully returned to the creed of the Middle Ages, casting themselves in the spiritual category, the Caste of the Transcen-ents. She came to know too the ferment in the present-oriented ""cellar of France,"" the other Availle where M. Le Pornic pronounced his advanced views. Her exploration of the past and of the Trabert destinies proceed along with her own through the war years to the present. She watches Diane and Jean-Julien fall from grace as they com-promise with the world as it is. She herself becomes a writer and, after the death of her first husband, makes a comfortable, compatible second marriage. Diane pursues an cting career despite the demands of motherhood, leaving husband and children (losing one child) and making her final adjustment to life as the wife of Le Pornic. A complex blend of spiritual and corporal concerns, this is almost teasing in the intricacies of its intimations. Very female, very French.

Pub Date: Oct. 14, 1964

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: McKay

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1964

Categories: FICTION