Nov 15, 2009

The Admiral and the Nuns | The Admiral and the Nuns

At a glance:

Author: Frank Tuohy
First Published: 1960
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: 1952
Setting: Brazil
Principal Characters: Barbara Woroszylski, Stefan Woroszylski, Fernando Ferreira, Doralice Ferreira, The Narrator
Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
Subjects: Culture, Class conflict, Alienation, Brazil or Brazilians, Loneliness
Locales: Brazil

The Story

An unnamed English visitor to a South American country that seems to be Brazil unintentionally becomes involved in the lives of Stefan Woroszylski, a Polish laboratory assistant at a remote industrial development project, and Barbara, his English wife. Barbara insists on inflicting on her fellow Englishman the “emotional confusion” built up over two years in a strange country. In contrast, Stefan is relatively comfortable in Brazil because several Poles are there.

The daughter of an admiral, educated in a convent, Barbara desperately misses the active...

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The Admiral and the Nuns | The Admiral and the Nuns

At a glance:

The Story

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