![]() ![]() ![]() His life is at a standstill because of what he believes to be the loss of his older brother Aldo a brother he feared yet idolized without whom he has no separate existence. In The Flight of the Falcon we enter Beoto's life at the age of 32. These protagonists are untried as of yet and as the novel progresses they are forced to learn certain harsh facts. In I'll Never Be Young Again and My Cousin Rachel we meet the male voice at a much younger age. Experience has not given him the necessary push. Beoto Donati is all that his predecessors were, except that he is not a young school-boy learning through experience how to be a maturer man. By dependent I mean, that the characters are usually (not always) overshadowed by some strong figure in their life. The novel, like some of her other works, has the same type of narrator: under-confident, unsure, unsuccessful and dependent. Written in 1965, The Flight of the Falcon is one of Daphne du Maurier's later books. Finally! I've finished the first book for the challenge. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |