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Here a few thoughts about Chesyl Beach, a novel a I read years ago.
1) The two main characters are well described. Their inner complex lives, their past lack of experiences, in particular their sexual innocence and naivety are quite credible in the period when the novel takes place.
2) The fact that there are only two characters makes the plot very dense and tight. One cannot escape the tragic climax that looms inevitably between or above or below the two heroes, who know so little about each other and about themselves.
3) The action switches constantly from the present to the past and between the two lives of the main characters. In this way the reader, who obviously knows a lot more In his / her vantage point about them is lead by the omniscient narrator forward and backward inexorably in the inevitable destructive course of the novel, which has a tragic touch in the antique Greek sense of the term. The action reminds me of the virgin journey of the Titanic towards the iceberg in the Atlantic.
4) After the great clash between the two, after their devastating encounter, their final departure from Chesyl Beach, the actions takes up incredible speed. In the last chapter the biography of the two lives with their two different trajectories is telescoped into very few pages. While the first part of the book is narrated at very slow pace, the second part brings together 20 , 30, 40 years, in fact the whole biography/destiny. The reader gets to know only the very gist of the two plots and has no possibility any more to keep in emotional touch with the two main characters, to sympathize with them. I have unfortunately forgotten their two names since, as I have already mentioned before, it is such a long time that I read the novel the first and only time.


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Wonderful story beautiful writing. I was so surprised by the ending I did not expect that at all. Can't wait to see the movie!
I'm giving this four stars, even though the writing itself deserved five, because I found the story a bit... icky. I think perhaps this is a little too close to what my parents were like on their own honeymoon, which took place around the same time, hence the ick factor.

I love McEwan, though, and he masterfully lets us inhabit the thoughts of both Edward and Florence on the fateful night that is the center of the story. His descriptions of their courtship and youths were splendid as well, and I could practically feel the dappled sunlight of the Oxford countryside on my face. I did find it odd (maybe disappointing) that the end of the book was written solely from Edward's point of view, when the rest of the work was in third person omniscient.

I read that this book, which is essentially a novella, is being made into a film, and I can't for the life of me see how. The same elements that make it stand out as a piece of literature make it nearly impossible to translate to celluloid.
Finally, here’s a book that features a female character who isn’t madly desirous of having sex. Some might want to put her in the newly emerging category of “asexual.” However, it’s possible Florence is closer to just being an average woman, a woman who keeps the secret of her disinclination too long. Or more accurately, she is too frank in revealing her disinclination about sex at the wrong time. Most women who feel as Florence does probably never so pointedly and so articulately get around to revealing the truth of their feelings.

The tragedy of this story is that both Florence and Edward are ultimately honest about their urges or lack thereof, and the eternal mismatch between men and women becomes all too tangible a wall between them. Most couples go through life keeping such potentially deal-breaking differences a dark secret. Men don’t openly speak to the women in their lives about the often murky-violent nature of their imaginings and their urges. And women don’t admit to men (and often not even to themselves) how little they are interested in having sex. The revelation of this mismatch, this disparity, would mean never having a second date - much less a marriage.

This book is very well written. Both Florence and Edward are given their say without the author imposing his judgment upon them. It’s not so much a novel as a set of book-ended reflections, each human book-end necessarily having its back to the other, however much the two have to support between them.

It’s much better to read this book than to see the movie made from it. This philosophical theme didn’t really lend itself to being portrayed on the big screen. What’s more, the movie made a number of seriously eroding changes to each character’s viewpoint. For example, the movie left a more insinuating suggestion that Florence’s distaste for sex was the result of having been sexually abused. This implication was injected into Florence’s back-story in the movie even though other aspects of her biography would clearly refute the likelihood of any abuse. In both movie and book, she is shown pouring over marriage manuals, trying to learn about men’s anatomy and physiology and trying to get an inkling of what to expect on her wedding night and beyond. If she had been abused, she wouldn’t have been so totally clueless about the mechanics of sex. So that movie implication makes no sense. It just once again denies a woman her natural inclination and orientation.

So the book “On Chesil Beach, is the source to go to. I highly recommend it for the beauty and poignancy of its writing and for the truth it at last allows. I might almost suggest it as required reading for couples, if that word “required” didn’t make such a chore of it. But it might at last open the way to frank discussions that have so far been suppressed between men and women. It might promote a better understanding between potential partners - for better or for worse.
On Chelsie Beach was an engrossing and enjoyable book. Short, but packed with sensitive writing about a delicate subject in a particular time. He seems able to write both the male and female characters with equal ease and without cliche, and renders the joys and pain of love, the agony of uncertainty, and the sense deep loss and regret with great depth of understanding.
A beautiful novella from the very first word until the next-to-last page. Then it is stunning. The final page is perhaps one of the most amazing pieces of writing I have ever read. Poetic and fraught with emotion, it struck me to the core -- I probably spent almost as much time re-reading it because it was so precise and symphonic as I spent on the rest of the piece. I could go back and read it again as many times. It's a lesson for all but also a most fitting ending to the story. Swoon.
Here a few thoughts about Chesyl Beach, a novel a I read years ago.
1) The two main characters are well described. Their inner complex lives, their past lack of experiences, in particular their sexual innocence and naivety are quite credible in the period when the novel takes place.
2) The fact that there are only two characters makes the plot very dense and tight. One cannot escape the tragic climax that looms inevitably between or above or below the two heroes, who know so little about each other and about themselves.
3) The action switches constantly from the present to the past and between the two lives of the main characters. In this way the reader, who obviously knows a lot more In his / her vantage point about them is lead by the omniscient narrator forward and backward inexorably in the inevitable destructive course of the novel, which has a tragic touch in the antique Greek sense of the term. The action reminds me of the virgin journey of the Titanic towards the iceberg in the Atlantic.
4) After the great clash between the two, after their devastating encounter, their final departure from Chesyl Beach, the actions takes up incredible speed. In the last chapter the biography of the two lives with their two different trajectories is telescoped into very few pages. While the first part of the book is narrated at very slow pace, the second part brings together 20 , 30, 40 years, in fact the whole biography/destiny. The reader gets to know only the very gist of the two plots and has no possibility any more to keep in emotional touch with the two main characters, to sympathize with them. I have unfortunately forgotten their two names since, as I have already mentioned before, it is such a long time that I read the novel the first and only time.