Издания и произведения

Jean Rhys was a talent before her time with an impressive ability to express the anguish of young, single women. In GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT Rhys created the powerfully modern portrait of Sophia Jansen, whose emancipation is far more painful and complicated than she could expect, but whose confession is flecked with triumph and elation. One of the most honest and distinctive British novelists of the 20th Century, Jean Rhys wrote about women with perception and sensitivity in an innovative and often controversial way. In GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHT (1939) she creates an unforgettable portrait of a woman forced to confront her inevitable loneliness…

In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde.

Sasha Jensen has returned to Paris, the city of both her happiest moments and her most desperate. A friend has rescued her from the room in London where she had been trying to drink herself to death. Now her past lies in wait for her in cafes, bars, and dress shops coming to life again as vividly for the reader as it does for her, blurring all distinctions between nightmare and reality. The past is no all that looms threateningly on Sasha's horizon. She does not trust the future, even as she knows she must move into it. Whens she is picked by a young man, she begins to feel that she is still capable of desires and emotions. Few…

Саша Дженсен, немолодая англичанка, вернулась в Париж после долгого отсутствия. Ее материальное положение весьма неустойчиво, и она смогла позволить себе эту поездку на деньги, которые одолжила у друга. Ее прошлое, в котором несчастливый брак и смерть ребенка, не дает ей покоя, и делает жизнь еще сложней: ей трудно заботиться о себе, она пьет, неумеренно принимает снотворное и маниакально увлечена своей внешностью. Она просто дрейфует по жизни и по этому городу, с которым чувствует себя неразрывно связанной, не смотря на всю ту боль, которую он ей принес.