By Sylvie Maurel (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0312216874
ISBN-13: 9780312216870
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Returning home, Julia was hoping to recover the linkage that had once made her mother 'the warm centre of the world' (ALM, 77). But before she can even vaguely recapture a sense of pre-symbolic wholeness, her mother dies, leaving a gap beyond repair. An essential articulation has now gone - it actually went years before when Norah was born (ALM, 77) - definitely putting Julia 'outside the pale' (ALM, 69), forever barring her from meaning. During the funeral, she comes short of an epiphany, but meaning will not give itself away: 40 JEAN RHYS she was obsessed with the feeling that she was so close to seeing the thing that was behind all the talking and the posturing, and that the talking and the posturing were there to prevent her from seeing it.
The diegesis is moreover interspersed with time-shifts backwards. Nothing but the flimsiness of the actual diegesis can account for such disproportionate overlappings. The plot in After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is remarkably thin. The isotopy of insubstantiality, combined with the treatment of time, tends to transform the diegesis into a virtual text. At the beginning of the novel, we are told that Julia has spent six months licking her wounds in a hotel, under cover, with the 'rumble of life outside' (ALM, 9).
Although we do not learn much about Julia'S life story, a text is being written here. Refuting 'his-story' (conventional biography), Julia manages to tell 'herstory' all the same. For the integrated self she seeks to delineate in her doubly embedded narrative (the story whose narratee is Ruth), she substitutes the representation of a proliferating subject. She features as a double narrator operating at two different levels and skilfully framing both narratives. She also splits into several AFTER LEAVING MR MACKENZIE 37 objects screening each other: she is the object of her unspoken biography; she models for a sculptor and identifies with the woman on the canvas.
Jean Rhys by Sylvie Maurel (auth.)
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