Lost Illusions ...

This is a novel written with consummate art of analysis, between irony and cruelty.
We start on the road dazzled a charming young Englishwoman, pretty, naïve, drunk with a freedom that is offered to him suddenly while refusing the tutelage of marriage, she abandoned herself to despair of a narrow life, without horizon maintained by an obtuse stepsister. Here she unexpectedly inherits a barely glimpsed uncle, who offers him a large house in Germany and its lands ... and with them the wonderful, incomparable independence enabling it to be itself, and not ' wife .... "She will not marry, she will leave this house to which it will be the mistress, she will embellish at will. It will shade of forests and flowers, scents of the morning in the garden .. .
And for her happiness is complete, as she has the generous heart, it will offer to share his joy with some girls good become needy family; it will host, will make her friends, taste with them the infinite delights of gentle feelings in the radiant splendor of nature ...
This is the first part of the story, of which we say that it is like a sweet tea, albeit fragrant, but drowned bergamot ... The concern for some sweet dreams of the beautiful Anna .. .
Then, gradually, the varnish will crack. The beings be.
Gradually, all the miasma rise to the surface, and Anna may well do everything possible to understand, apologize, forgive, believe again, the time comes when we must see in front poverty, mediocrity, indifference, vanity, narrow-mindedness, the venom ...
The author is fierce in its shelling of motives, calculations, pettiness, resentment. It is sovereign as to denounce the class prejudices and injustices ... A seamy world is updated ... as in the new Dino Buzzati: "There will come soft rains," where a beautiful garden in the moonlight reveals to the tune of insects, ferocious universe.
You get to the point where the reader is wondering anxiously how all this will end, Elizabeth Von Arnim if will have mercy on his heroine and the reader ... And love, in all this?
"The Benefactor" is an original book, meticulous, intelligent, subtle, incisive, with, to tie everything, tasty touches of humor ... A novel poisoned and delectable.