This is the story of a persevering man, a man who leads a quiet and routine life in his farm, in a small village of Wessex. One day a young woman breaks into its bucolic world. He, pushed by love, asks her impetuously to get married but he will be rejected. Here’s for you, Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene.
The author, Thomas Hardy, claims that you dedicate them all your attention. It was the era of no-reproducibility of images, when the night, the wind and the storm are described through the eyes of who can see every detail and really wants to have then as a present. Have lack of confidence then from reading this novel in a “sliding manner” because Hardy has the desire to bring to you the world of the late nineteenth century. The language, so far from the one we are used to, presents a very modern Bathsheba who wondered about marriage, the desire to be a wife, and she concludes with the conviction that that old expression “get married ” feels tight. What is going to happen?
There will be others ready to contend for the heart of Bathsheba, like the elegant Boldwood and the seducer Sergeant Troy. Indeed Bathsheba is young for her independence, but human in her recklessness and fragility that make her sometimes flirtatious and whimsical. In the novels of Hardy feelings are powerful weapons that cause suffering and that can lead to the death. But us women, incurable romantic, have a hope: it is called Gabriel Oak. Right man, patient and balance, that is basically what you would expect from a pastor, who with his love protects and leads Far from the madding crowd his beloved Bathsheba.
Time of the reading: every night for two weeks
Photography: Sara Cartelli.
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