6/1/2023 0 Comments Sarah perry melmoth reviewHelen has left England for mundane work as a translator of instruction manuals and advertising material in a wintery Prague which is full of tourists, post-Christmas music, colour and smells. Helen Franklin may be an unlikely heroine but it is though her that we learn of Melmoth, and it is Melmoth who haunts her and those others whose lives she enters, and whose dark presence make us, too, aware of the hells we walk through. Sarah Perry's Melmoth has all the richness, suspense and terror of a good gothic novel but it is more than that. Looks at the hell we"ve made and goes walking though it," taking you with her until your feet, like hers, are bleeding. "she is always watching," her eyes are upon you in your guilt and transgression. Melmoth The Witness, Melmotte, Melmotica, Melmat: "she who is cursed to wander the earth without home or respite.". Helen Franklin: small, insignificant, having about her an air of sadness whose source you cannot guess at self-punishment, self-hatred, carried out quietly and diligently and with a minimum of fuss?
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