Robyn Cadwallader Livres
Robyn Cadwallader allie un profond intérêt universitaire pour la littérature médiévale à son travail créatif, explorant des thèmes tels que l'agentivité féminine et la sexualité. Son écriture s'inspire souvent de figures historiques et mythiques, examinant leurs luttes et leurs triomphes dans le cadre des contraintes sociales. Elle se penche sur le pouvoir du récit et la construction de l'identité féminine, en utilisant des techniques littéraires innovantes. La prose de Cadwallader est reconnue pour son analyse perspicace et ses portraits captivants de personnages qui défient les conventions.
Book of Colours
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
From Robyn Cadwallader, author of the internationally acclaimed novel The Anchoress, comes a deeply profound and moving novel of the importance of creativity and the power of connection, told through the story of the commissioning of a gorgeously decorated medieval manuscript, a Book of Hours.
The Anchoress
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
"England, 1255. Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers, desires, and temptations, and to commit herself to a life of prayer. But it soon becomes clear that even the thick, unforgiving walls of her cell cannot keep the outside world away, and Sarah's body and soul are still in great danger"--
