The Double Life of Liliane, by Lily Tuck
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The Double Life of Liliane, by Lily Tuck
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“Tuck is a genius.”—Los Angeles Book ReviewLily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With The Double Life of Liliane, Tuck writes what may well be her crowning achievement to date, and, significantly too, her most autobiographical work.As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in Italy and a beautiful, artistically talented mother who resides in New York, Liliane’s life is divided between those two very different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid histories, through both World Wars and across continents.What unfolds is an astonishing and riveting metanarrative: an exploration of self, humanity, and family in the manner of W.G. Sebald and Karl Ove Knausgaard. Told with Tuck’s inimitable elegance and peppered with documents, photos, and a rich and varied array of characters, The Double Life of Liliane is an intimate and poignant coming of age portrait of the writer as a young woman.
The Double Life of Liliane, by Lily Tuck- Amazon Sales Rank: #911682 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x 1.00" w x 5.80" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. DOUBLE TALK By little lady blue Book blurb states: “A brilliant blend of fact and fiction.”Only if the author intended the reader not to know which is which can it be described as ‘brilliant.’It skips and jumps time and place. A bit of history and a bit of a travelogue, but ultimately not a whole lot about Liliane. If this is supposed to be even a little bit biographical it does not feel so.Photographs with no captions are not all that interesting when the reader is left to try and match them with the narrative.The writing may very well be ‘brilliant’ but one would have to have a burning desire to make sense of it all to expend the energy to ferret out the meaning.I’ll just Google Lily Tuck and save myself the headache.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An evocative blend of memoir, history, and fiction By Bookreporter Lily Tuck’s previous fiction, including her National Book Award-winning THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY, has been praised for its clarity of prose, insight into characters, and elegant explorations of universal themes. She’s also written two collections of short stories as well as a biography of Elsa Morante, a significant Italian writer of the early 20th century. All these elements serve Tuck very well as she crafts her latest work, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF LILIANE, an evocative blend of memoir, history and fiction.Everything in THE DOUBLE LIFE OF LILIANE, which traces the childhood and young adulthood of its title character, leads up to the course on French poetry that Liliane takes at Harvard with the literary critic Paul de Man. Liliane is the only undergraduate in the course and one of the few women (uncoincidentally, a 2014 biography of Paul de Man was titled THE DOUBLE LIFE OF PAUL DE MAN). De Man poses a series of questions to his students: “How does one distinguish literary language from ordinary language? And when does journalism become literature and when does memoir become literary?”These questions are also at the heart of Tuck’s narrative, which seamlessly blends a literary narrative structure with a memoir-like personal narrative based on details from her own life (although recounted in the third person) and the techniques of journalism. And the whole story is told in an almost clinically dispassionate tone, more like a history book than a novel. Events in Liliane’s life --- even quite disruptive ones such as her father’s death or her mother’s overdose on sleeping pills --- are narrated matter-of-factly, interwoven with research, family history or science.The first half of the book is largely composed of meditations on the various twisted branches of Liliane’s family tree, her connections to predecessors as various as the monarch Mary Queen of Scots and the Jewish scholar Moses Mendelssohn. Liliane herself was born in the late 1930s and spent much of her childhood on the move, fleeing her childhood home in Paris at the start of World War II and finally dividing her time as a teenager between her mother and stepfather’s home in New York City and Italy, where her father was a film producer.The specter of the war and particularly of the Holocaust runs throughout THE DOUBLE LIFE OF LILIANE. References to tragedies large and small run through its pages, too, often in the form of flash-forwards to incidental characters’ tragic and often violent deaths. Although the narrator maintains a quite deliberate emotional detachment from these events, the cumulative effect is one of melancholy, of losses both distant and more closely held.On the surface, one might expect that the book’s title refers to Liliane’s feeling of being split in two by virtue of spending two very different childhoods, one with her father in Italy and one with her mother in New York and Maine. But again, that pivotal course with Paul de Man, which culminates the book, hints at a different meaning for the title, referring to “the writing ‘I’ and the written ‘I’”. Is the writer identical to her subject? Or, by virtue of narrating her experience and everything that ripples out from it, is she creating a different version of herself? These kinds of provocative questions will preoccupy readers both while they immerse themselves in Liliane’s story and long afterwards.Reviewed by Norah Piehl
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Confusing novel and autobiography? By merle This coming of age story of Liliane is entwined between the real life of Lily Tuck and the imagined life of Liliane. Traveling between her divorced parents, Liliane experiences growing up with ballet and her mother and step father, Gaby in New York and visiting her father in Rome. She travels to America on the SS Exeter and flies on the TWA L-749 Constellation, the first commercial plane to cross the Atlantic nonstop. It is an extraordinary life, told in a very unexcited voice.
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