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An after-dinner walk in the moonlight leads to a series of confessions of first loves, each one sentimental and romantic. That is until Jessop takes his turn and decries the very notion of love. He tells of a tragic affair between an old school friend and an innocent Sinhalese girl, and so introduces the central motif of these three stories—the incompatibility of East and West. Based on Woolf's own experiences in Ceylon, these tales provide a brilliant depiction of colonial life. A central figure in the Bloomsbury circle, Leonard Woolf (1880?1969) is perhaps best remembered for his marriage to Virginia, yet he produced some of the finest literary writings of his age.
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Frank Abrignani
reviewed Tale Told by Moonlight on December 11, 2020
Tale Told by Moonlight
Of course you're reading this because you already love Virginia. It's probably a solid morsel of average travel writing, but it's hard to appreciate it in its own right because there's little here for fans of Virginia. Reads like Steinbeck, extremely plain and plotty yarns, direct language and dialogue-oriented.
However... what is interesting is his unique setting in time and location: British Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Lots of dated attitudes, pretty normal yellow fever, orientalism, the whole shebang in these short stories. To be clear I never "dock" for that stuff in historical fiction if it's suitable for the context'it's fascinating to experience those attitudes and the sociopolitical environment of British colonization.
Best is "The Two Brahmans", a straightforward parable about the caste system, it reminds me of Steinbeck's The Pearl. The colonial setting reminded me of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which is set not in a colony but a Dutch trading post in Japan, which is a far richer exploration of the west-meets-east dynamic.
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