Millen Brand Livres
Millen Brand était un romancier et poète dont les œuvres ont acquis une certaine notoriété, particulièrement au milieu du XXe siècle. Ses romans ont exploré des sujets sensibles, tels que les institutions de santé mentale, rencontrant un succès notable. L'approche de Brand en matière d'écriture se caractérisait par une profonde perspicacité de la psyché humaine et des enjeux sociaux. Son héritage littéraire réside dans son engagement courageux envers des thèmes sociétaux souvent négligés, présentés dans un style poétique qui attire les lecteurs dans la vie intérieure de ses personnages.
Outward Room
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The Outward Room is a rediscovered classic of American literature, a book about a young woman’s journey from madness to self-discovery that is as immediate and moving today as when it first appeared in 1937. Having suffered a nervous breakdown after her younger brother’s death in a car accident, Harriet Demuth has been committed to a mental hospital, where her doctor’s Freudian nostrums have done little to make her well. Convinced that she and she alone can refashion her life, Harriet makes a daring escape from the hospital—hopping a train by night and riding the rails into the vastness of New York City in the light of the rising sun. This is the 1930s, the midst of the Great Depression, and at first Harriet is lost among the city’s anonymous multitudes. She pawns her jewelry and is living an increasingly hand-to-mouth existence when she meets John, a machine-shop worker. Slowly Harriet begins to recover her sense of self; slowly she and John begin to fall in love. The story of that emerging love, told with the lyricism of Virginia Woolf and the realism of Theodore Dreiser, is the heart of Millen Brand’s remarkable book.
