Kerfol

World War I left Edith Wharton in "afflicted people", "Hermione Lee said in her recent biography," Paris became a spectacle and a melancholy city for her, " . Wharton was influenced by the collapse of beloved France and influenced her writing, "The strange novel of the war era was a story called" Kelfol "(1916). A wealthy singles person was urged by a friend to buy a house in Brittany and I learned that the heritage of Kelfol is surrounded by a group of strange silent dogs, not humans. Under the guidance of local residents, the narrator wrote a regional record depicting the 200-year history of a woman threatened by sensuous trials of detained husband, mysterious, terrible murder, and survivors. - RWB Lewis called it "one of the most exciting exercises of Edith Wharton's violence, fear, and imagination about pornography."

"My master said that you should buy it," This is just a lonely devil like you. It is worth having the most romantic house in Brittany. That person is now dead, this is a song - you should buy it. "

My friend Lanrivain blamed me for this role (indeed, under my invisible appearance, I always have a secret desire for family life) and his proposal in autumn afternoon Accepted. Then I went to Kelfor. My friend is busy going to Quimper. He put me on the storm at the intersection of the wasteland, after I set me on the street, "I turn to the right first, then turn left and go straight to the left until I see the main street they do not know French, Pretending to pretend to confuse you, Before sunset I will come back to you - Please do not forget the grave chapel. "

I obey Lanrivain's instructions because it is not good to remember whether the first turn turns to the right or the second turns to the left or vice versa. Of course when I meet a farmer, I should ask and may be guided incorrectly, but I have desert scenery for myself. It is different from any other road I have seen so far, I immediately know that it must be the way. . . . If you do not see all of the following articles, please click here (PDF) or click here (Google Docs) for free.

Kerfol is particularly fascinating to me because it is in France, and as I wrote before, Edith Wharton is a fan of all American writers. This premise is reminiscent of other ghost story: Kerfol (which means "crazy house" in Breton language) is a magnificent isolated, collapsing castle of Brittany, its owner wants to sell it I thought "song" narrator could not see the guardian of this place, but saw a variety of strange silent dogs. When I returned to the people who led him to Kerfol, he was tried by the wife of the king's wife Anne de Barrigan in the early eighteenth century. The following is very similar to the early days of my novel "Revolutionary Hostess" Gabriel de Montserrat heroine. But when I wrote this article, I have never seen Kerfol ... these two young women are poor aristocratic women, elders, elders, older men, unexplainable Treat them with cruelty

Edith Wharton's "Kerfol" is a ghost story that hides the deeper meaning. It is a social commentary on the role of gender in the late 19th and early 20th century. As the story evolved, an unknown narrator went to Kerfall with the intention of buying property. Upon arrival, he met a group of silent dogs who later discovered that they were ghosts of their former self. By reading the history of the house, he learned that his owner was beaten to death by a supernatural creature and his wife was tried for his death. The date between a woman and a lover can be used as a crime scene, but eventually a woman is sentenced to live the rest of her life at the lonely house of life and marriage. This is an expression of the oppression that women feel on that day, that is, their character can not escape from his prison.