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word count 11258
date submitted 03.05.2009
date updated 09.01.2010
genres: Literary Fiction, Romance, Erotica,...
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From the Corner of the Divan

Lara Biuts

 

A chapter from my novel La Lune Blanche, Volume 2.

 

My novel La Lune Blanche, Volume 2 includes several stories. The chapter in its turn includes two stories. The stories are a part of Mr Anthony Blanche’s writings, which have been published on the Net.

As for the title, do you remember this: “From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.” (Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray)

The sequel of the story of the English boy of the name of Jocelyn Lindenridge and his foster-father Anthony Blanche.

 
 

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Pierre Van Rooyen wrote 461 days ago



Dear Lara,



I have read chapters marked one and two up until the end.

From the Corner of the Divan is now on my bookshelf.

I was curious where you got the title from and had not remembered Oscar Wilde’s work, it is so long ago I read Dorian Gray.

Accomplished writing and very different to my own which tends to be much lighter.

Wishing you well with your work.



Kind regards,



Pierre

The Little Girl in the Fig Tree

deajuly wrote 468 days ago

It’s so nice of you. Your opinion is so dear for me, as a non-native English speaker. I am about to publish 3 first chapters of Volume 1 of the novel--the opening of the story of Anthony and Jocelyn--soon. And the chapter, which you read, is an excerpt from Volume 2, in which the story continues. In fact, it is an endless story, for really the main characters as well as author are young enough to live long making the story endless.
Thank you for your time.
Lara

KarlV wrote 468 days ago

I really like how you've mixed the narratives in and there's some cracking sentences within here. I'm interested to see how the story develops and whether the two narratives impact on Jocelyn and Anthony in any other way. I was intrigued by the old-fashined book cover being followed by mention of the internet on the first page of the text - this really intrigued me and want to find out more.

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