The House in Paris (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bowen
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Post-World War I
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Children, Love or romance, Suicide, Gender roles, Paris, 1920’s, England or English people, Illegitimacy, Loneliness
- Locales: France, England, Ireland
Places Discussed
*Fisher house. Parisian home of Naomi Fisher and her mother; the house of the novel’s title and the place in which the main action of the first and third parts of the novel unfolds. It is here that eleven-year-old Henrietta Mountjoy meets Leopold Moody. The house, in its narrow and confining way with its “thin frame,” “tight blinds” and air of sternness, suggests the secrets concerning Leopold’s parentage and the adults’ passions against which the two children struggle for a sense of their own understanding and identities. The presence of the...
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