di Zoe Patricelli Malizia
“The snow in the mountains was melting, and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”
This is the first sentence of the captivating novel by Donna Tartt, The Secret History, which portrays the life of Richard Papen after he moves from the suffocating town of Plano, California, to study at an elite college in Hampden, Vermont. Immediately, his interest is piqued by a small, bizarre group of students studying Classics, formed by Charles and Camilla Macaulay, Francis Abernathy, Henry Winter, and Edmund “Bunny” Corcoran. Richard does everything in his power to join the seemingly isolated world they live in. Despite the reluctance to admit another student to the class, the professor, Julian Morrow, finally accepts Richard into the tightly-knit group. Leggi tutto “A Longing for the Picturesque”
