Andrew Bennett's Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still PDF

By Andrew Bennett

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ISBN-13: 9780333607602

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41) Gerald is a negative person, a non-person, partly, it seems, because of this rigid construction of boundaries. Paradoxically, this rigidity of borders and the denial of their transgression, both for him and for other people, rather than constructing a person, excludes it. Gerald is a non-person, he is and always has been, in some sense, dead: 'he was not, at all' (52). The extent of Gerald's impersonality might be gauged in Lois's inability to describe him in letters to her friend Viola: 'And there arose, recurrently, the difficulty of describing Gerald' (51).

Such infringements occur at least three times before the final invasion and burning of Danielstown at the end of the novel. Each time, however, the notion of boundaries is itself questioned by the very status of Danielstown as an Anglo-Irish domestic enclave in Ireland. And this problematic of boundaries is further exacerbated by the (invited) intrusions of British soldiers into this enclave. The complex, even strictly undecidable question of nationality - Irish, English, AngloIrish, 'British' - figures the grounds upon which an undeclared war is being fought out.

And seeing him now, for the first time, Lois wants to 'run indoors' and write a description of him to Viola. Gerald is non-human, a non-person, precisely because he cannot be described. The description, figuration, representation of people in thought is what constitutes a person in Bowen. People are only people to the extent that they can be thought, evoked, (re-)called from the dead. For Gerald to be a coherent, stable, finally self-identical subject, is to be non-human, dead. People in Bowen are only alive to the extent that they are traversed by death, only 'real' to the extent that they are traversed by figuration, by fiction.

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