Domnei: (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Comedy of Woman-Worship
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James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell’s worked appeared in both Harper’s Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration for such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm not sure what I expected when I decided to read this. At the time I was looking for novels which gave the reader an idea of the intellectual climate of a century ago. I had no idea what the title meant and when I saw the term Woman Worship in the subtitle I somehow pictured some sort of science fiction novel about a civilization deep in a jungle somewhere where women were treated as goddesses. Domnei, however, is a term relating to chivalric behavior and the novel is based on a fragmentary medieval tale of two lovers who are separated when they try to run off together. He is captured by an infidel king and she runs off to ransom him. The infidel king, however, decides he would rather have her than the ransom. She marries him, but holds him at arms' length indefinitely because of her scorn for him. Her lover moves heaven and earth to rescue her and innumerable bodies fall about the three of them. In the end, they stand gazing into each others' eyes. Of course, she's no longer the slip of a girl he first loved and they're not sure what to make of the people they've become. I have to admit that I kept thinking that if this had been written 100 years later it would probably have been porn of the slightly sado-masochist variety. I kept waiting for someone to beat the heroine with a slipper or seduce the hero. The book isn't written for laughs and I'm no sure what the author's intent was, except to puncture the fallacies of the chivalric ideal. I'm not sorry I read it, but I'm still not sure why.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cabell's style is a pleasure for me to read. The two tales in this Ballantine reprint are good light entertainment. He's fairly honest about women IMHO. The stories, were originally published in 1913 and 1920. The second story is "Music Beyond the Moon"