That is it. I am done with Hardy … Thomas that is.
I was tempted back to my teenage enjoyment of the Hardy novels by loving the writing of David Nicholls. And, as had been said before, he is consumed by this late Victorian writer.
I was looking up the ‘Tess’ quote that Nicholls uses in his book ‘One Day.’
The day of your own death: ‘a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year.’ This led me to re-read the book and watch the film. Gemma Artherton is great and Eddie Redmayne is to die for as Angel Clare, until he abandons Tess of course.
The ending is just too much, too depressing, too upsetting, too awful.
I’m done … and we won’t even talk about Jude the Obscure.