《Bland Answer》 - A bland answer

...Graduated from Cambridge University. Her style beautifully and elegantly depicts the unstable, delicate, and sometimes trembling sensibility of childhood, and her debut work, A Tasteless Answer (1927), is a typical example. Her series, Invitation to a Waltz (1932) and The Weather in the City (1936), depict the innocence of the female protagonist Olivia at 18 and her experience of being hurt in marriage and getting divorced ten years later, and are a magnificent contrast between light and darkness, and the correspondence between innocence and experience. ...

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…ケンブリッジ大学卒業。少女期の不安定で繊細な，うち震えるような感受性を美しく香気豊かに描き出す作風をもち，処女作《味気ない答え》(1927)はその典型的なものである。《ワルツへの招待》(1932)，《街の気候》(1936)は連作で，女主人公オリビアの18歳の無垢さと，10年後に結婚生活に傷つき離婚した経験とが描かれ，明と暗の対照，無垢と経験の照応がみごとである。…

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