Natalie Natalia

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Dalkey Archive Press, 1996 - Fiction - 278 pages

"Natalie Natalia"?is Nicholas Mosley's brilliant examination of political life. It revolves around Anthony Greville, a conservative Member of Parliament who is tormented by his ambivalence toward his career, by his religious doubts, and by his adulterous affair with Natalia Jones, the enigmatic wife of a colleague.

The course of their affair dramatizes love in its most creative and perilously destructive aspects, the two facets symbolized in the two names he has for his lover: "I sometimes called Natalia Natalie instead of Natalia," Greville says, "when she was the ravenous rather than the angelic angel... What Natalie said was often a code for what Natalia was meaning." Ranging in setting from England to Central Africa, the novel is a remarkable investigation of ethics, with fiction itself as an ethical activity.

 

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Contents

Section 1
5
Section 2
9
Section 3
34
Section 4
55
Section 5
71
Section 6
91
Section 7
114
Section 8
139
Section 9
155
Section 10
175
Section 11
209
Section 12
231
Section 13
247
Section 14
Section 15
Copyright

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About the author (1996)

Nicholas Mosley was born on June 25, 1923. During World War II, he joined the Rifle Brigade and won the Military Cross. He read philosophy for one year at Oxford University. His first novel, Spaces in the Dark, was published in 1951. His other novels included Accident, Impossible Object, and Hopeful Monsters, which won the Whitbread book of the year in 1990. He wrote biographies of poet Julian Grenfell, Russian leader Leon Trotsky, and Father Raymond Raynes. He was best known for his two-part biography on his father Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, entitled The Rules of the Game and Beyond the Pale. He died on February 28, 2017 at the age of 93.

Bibliographic information

TitleNatalie Natalia
British literature series
AuthorNicholas Mosley
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherDalkey Archive Press, 1996
ISBN1564780864, 9781564780867
Length278 pages
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