Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

Ana-Karina Schneider (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu)

Ed. by Anne Markey, Dublin City University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400-present.
Vol. editors: Paul Delaney (Trinity College Dublin), Anne Markey (Dublin City University), Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin), Sinéad Sturgeon (Queen's University Belfast)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2002 - 2002

Places

Ireland, Republic of (Eire) (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Anne Enright’s third novel, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002), is the fictional biography of the 19^th-century Irish woman who was the unofficial first lady of Paraguay’s dictator Francisco Solano López before and during the 1864-1870 war against the Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Marketed as chick lit and historical romance (see the book covers of various reprints), the novel has been read by critics and reviewers as a richly textured postmodern performance, fragmentary and stylistically daring, accommodating both male and female views of history. Hermione Lee, for instance, has described it as “a rich, flamboyant, mannered book, written with condensed, self-conscious …

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Citation: Schneider, Ana-Karina. "The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 December 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38919, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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