Echo by Violet Trefusis

by Violet Trefusis

Sauge, bored with her husband and Paris, leaves for a soujourn in her aunt's inhospitable Scottish castle, where she encounters her savage and androgynous twin cousins, Malcolm and his sister Jean, who elicit an ambiguous sexual response from Sauge

Hardcover

Reviews

[Brahunja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Letto il: 24/07/2025
Lingua: Inglese

Commento:
Un altro libro con dinamiche strane tra i personaggi e un'atmosfera tra il magico, l'inquieto e l'inquietante a contornare la vicenda. Molto breve, ma molto significativo. Le descrizioni mi hanno ricordato lo stile vago e onirico di F. S. Fitzgerald, che apprezzo molto.

[Daniel Wyckoff · Rating 5 out of 5]

This charming novella by Violet Trefusis packs a lot of whallop.
The astute reader can sense where this is going, but doesn't
quite want to give creed to the same primitive superstition that
forms the basis for the plot.
After finishing it, you're still not quite sure about the undergirding,
and the emotional response of the reader
is analogous to the protagonist's, although
that's where the similarity ends.
The cultural rituals of hermetically-sealed Scotland are unpropped if not
laid bare, and this is reassuring for literary bitches like me --
i.e. to know that the erring of a head for puns is
less of an issue than killing the deus ex machina that is
Trefusis's hermeneutics.

[Ethan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Violet Trefusis is such an underrated writer! Justice for her bold, ironic, and beautifully written work

[bianca · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars