Tess of the D'Urbervilles

'Hardy watches over Tess like a stricken victim. He is as tender to Tess as Tess is to the world. Tender and helpless' - Irwing Howe.

Into this story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man which couses her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder, Hardy wove a luminous tenderness and longing. 'I have never been able to put on paper all that she is, or was to me', he said. In defying convention and making a milkmaid the subject of tragedy, Hardy gave rein to his feelin for landscape and rural life - it's harshness, seasonal rhythms and reminders of death and ressurection - and endows the with a brooding symbolism and visionary beauty.

Ficção / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance