Jane Austen 5-bk box set (количество томов: 5)

In each of these cases at least one of the participants is deeply uneasy about the encounter. But in the actual writing of her novels Eliot persistently shifts register within a sentence, skirmishes with asides and ironies, mounts into metaphor. This is a far more flexible way of indicating conflict and demurring at certainties than imposing binary oppositions. In "Notes on Form in Art" Eliot commments, "Fundamentally, form is unlikeness." George Eliot's dialogue does not have the electrifying cogency of Jane Austen's, but the conversations articulate difference and leave room for the unsaid, as in Mrs. Poyser's conversation, or the talk between the sisters Dorothea and Celia or the children Maggie and Tom, or in the anguished tug of need between Gwendolen and Deronda. The multiplicity of positions brings authority into play so that the reader is often left uncertain as to the provenance of insights and opinions even while assenting to their (conflicting) claims. The chancy, the circumstantial, the improbable coincidence-all are given key roles in Eliot's perceptions: Silas is driven out of his first community by the lot declaring him to have stolen funds, and the child Eppie toddles into his cottage while his consciousness is suspended in a fit; Daniel Deronda opens with Gwendolen in the gambling hall, losing at play, and ends with Deronda setting out for an unknown country (an as yet nonexistent country) to which he is bound by the hazard of his genetic inheritance ...»