Silas Marner
(GEORGE ELIOT)
A village lost in the countryside. A
house built of solid stone by the side of a deep river; a road
covered with snow and a rural quarry. A weaver lives in a stone-house
isolated in the countryside of England, moralist, religious and
conservative, that has taken to calling itself Victorian. Despised by
his village, unlucky in love, betrayed by his best friend in the
world who has conspired to snatch away his heart's desire, Silas
Marner goes to Raveloe to live in absolute solitude and misanthropy
without knowing that life and fortune seldom are what we choose for
ourselves. A new chance of love transforms the miserliness of the
stoic weaver into generosity when a woman with a young girl in her
arms dies close to his house. Not only is the life of the weaver
transformed, but also all the parochial, simple and anonymous notions
that surround the strangest personage ever to have been known by the
inhabitants of Raveloe: the powerful landowners, the poor farmhands,
the pious and the puritanical. They all help Silas Marner to bring up
the girl who hides within herself the shadow of treachery and
villainy. Narrated with the descriptive precision of George Eliot,
Silas Marner presents a tableau in which various rustic village
characters play. The English writer Mary Ann Evans signed her books
George Eliot so that they would be judged by the society of her time
for the virtue of their aesthetic merits and not with Victorian
prejudice which would have become suspicious had they been written by
a woman. The same writer, admired by Proust and Virginia Woolf,
depicts in this story, critically acclaimed to be a real masterpiece,
a rural England, painted with brush-strokes of precision, in the
ambience of the human heart.
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