Passion (narrative)
Passion (in the original Passion , 2004) is a short story by Alice Munro. The story is, among other things, about class differences and the obstacles they create. Munro published two versions of this work in the same year. With regard to Passion, it is also noteworthy that a scientific journal, Narrative , published five articles on this story alone in May 2012 and a sixth documented the exchange between the respective authors.
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Grace grew up with her grandparents, who are wicker chair makers, and is not yet 21 years old. To get away from home, she works in the hotel when a young man from better circles, Maury, approaches her. Grace begins to let himself be carried out by him when he seems to be proven his seriousness. But she is not getting on with him fast enough and she falls in love with his mother, Mrs. Travers, who in turn begins to like Grace around her summer house and who offers her a quiet environment when she has a few hours off. Grace uses the time to read. She's also invited to Thanksgiving and everyone but her is already part of the family. An older brother named Neil, who is a doctor, shows up just as Grace needs his help because she sustained a deep wound on her foot in the garden. He, too, needs your help, as it soon turns out, because he is addicted to alcohol and plans to get a special kind of alcohol to replenish after driving to the clinic and using the tetanus injection. On the drive to his source, Neil teaches Grace how to drive a car, which she uses immediately to get back to work in good time after visiting a distillery. Neil continues his journey, and the next morning Grace learns of an accident. Grace receives a letter from Maury, which she replied curtly with: "I did want to go". The senior of the family visits Grace with greetings from his wife at the hotel and hands her a check for $ 1,000 that she would have preferred not to accept. The end of the story seems clear.
Editions and versions
The magazine version was published in The New Yorker on March 22, 2004 and has been made readable free of charge. In the book version, published that same year, the narrative in English is 37 pages. The work was first published in German in 2006 in the volume Tricks , in a translation by Heidi Zerning.
The following changes have been made between the journal version and the book version: In the third section, a section change has been added and a section change has been deleted between the fourth and the fifth section. A section change was inserted in the eleventh section and a section change was deleted between the twelfth and the thirteenth section. Twice a section is divided into two sections in this way and the section that follows immediately afterwards is combined from two sections compared to the magazine version. In the book version, this resulted in two further very short sections, so that there are now three sections of this type: The new fourth section consists of 4 lines. It's about Grace's love affair with Mrs. Travers. In the new eleventh section, which consists of 6 lines, Grace's impression at the beginning of the journey with Neil is described: that they were flying. And the sixteenth section, which already existed in the previous version, deals in 5 lines with the content of the letter that Grace receives from Maury and how Grace (does not) answer it. In addition to the section differences, there are a number of linguistic changes between the magazine version and the book version.
literature
- Susan Lohafer, The Stories of 'Passion': An Empirical Study, in: Narrative , 2012 May; 20 (2): 226-238. abstract
- Charles E. May, The Short Story's Way of Meaning: Alice Munro's Passion , in: Narrative , 2012 May; 20 (2): 172-182. abstract
- Michael Toolan, Engagement via Emotional Heightening in Passion : On the Grammatical Texture of Emotionally – Immersive Passages in Short Fiction, in: Narrative , 2012 May; 20 (2): 210-225. abstract
- Michael Trussler, Pockets of Nothingness: "Metaphysical Solitude" in Alice Munro's Passion . Narrative , 2012 May; 20 (2): 183-197. abstract
- Per Winther, Munro's Handling of Description, Focalization, and Voice in Passion , in: Narrative , 2012 May; 20 (2): 198-209. abstract
- Per Winther, Michael Trussler, Michael Toolan, Charles E. May, Susan Lohafer, Dialogues, in: Narrative , 2012 May; 20 (2): 239-253. abstract
Individual evidence
- ↑ Another summary with reference to the frame narrative is given by Susan Lohafer, Summary of Alice Munro's Passion ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Narrative , 2012 May; 20 (2).
- ↑ Alice Munro, “ Passion, ” The New Yorker , March 22, 2004
