Good morning, midnight

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Good morning, midnight

Jacket illustration shows a street view in Paris in the fading light; the trees are without leaves. A man in an overcoat, his hands in his pockets, approaches the streetside cafe table of a woman wearing a fur coat, a glass of something near her hand.

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Title:: Good morning, midnight

Identifier:: PR9275.D653R591967

Permalink:: https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d33z9s

Type:: Image

Notes:: Barbara Brown was the jacket designer. The last (1939) of the early group of the four novels, Good Morning, Midnight is the most formally complex: first person narrative in the present tense, modified use of stream of consciousness, sharp structural shifts. The female protagonist, Sasha Jansen, is the familiar socially marginal lone female of the earlier novels, whose existence is almost as precarious as those of the earlier protagonists, but she is older, more experienced and far less naive. Her return to Paris after a near breakdown in London marks the evolution of Sasha as a woman capable of love. The ending of the novel "yes - yes - yes...", so reminiscent of the ending of Joyce's Ulysses, however positive, cannot gainsay Sasha's grim journey through the meanest of Parisian streets and deepest of alcoholic depths. These four early novels establish Rhys as a great artist of modern urban anomie, of the savagery and exploitation of the modern city, most especially as it renders lone women isolated and vulnerable.