Thursday, August 13, 2020

H: The Italian Girl (1964)

chapters: 21

characters: 256,475
words: 47,941

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Grunewald's St Anthony

 

Eve of Gislebertus

 

 big ugly Victorian rectory

Edmund Narraway, engraver, 40s

🦛🗿 Otto Narraway, stone mason, elder brother, fat, drunk

Isabel, Otto's Scottish wife

👧 Flora, their daughter 16yo? studying textile design

🃏 David Levkin, Otto's Russian Jewish apprentice c20yo

👽 Elsa Levkin, his sister

🍲 Maria 'Maggie' Magistretti, the Italian 'girl'

👢 Lydia, deceased mother

John Narraway, deceased father, socialist artist

Charlie Hopgood, student

 

Part One
H01 A Moonlight Engraving
H02 Otto's Laughter

"Nondum considerasti quantum pondus sit peccatum." = you have not yet considered how great the weight of sin is (Anselm)
H03 Isabel Feeds the Fire
H04 Otto and Innocence

'marmoreal' = made of marble

Blado font


H05 Flora and Experience 🏡🤰
H06 The Magic Brothel 🔦👽 🐛🛌🏼
H07 Two Kinds of Jew {😪🤑}⌚🕙👧🍲
H08 Otto Confesses
H09 Edmund is Tempted
Part Two
H10 Uncle Edmund in Loco Parentis
H11 A Modern Ballet
H12 Isabel Confesses
H13 Edmund runs to Mother
H14 Otto Selects a Victim
H15 Lydia's Sense of Humour
H16 Elsa's Fire Dance
H17 Edmund in the Enchanted Wood
Part Three
H18 Elsa's Rings
H19 Boxwood
H20 Isabel in a long Perspective
H21 Rome 


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