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"One of my favourite writers." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"A writer of great dedication." - Graham Greene
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The narrator (Willie Ashenden, modelled after the author, a medical student turning into a writer) is mainly observant and doesn't influence the events taking place: The origins and later success of the great writer Edward Driffield and the touching portrait of his first wife, Rosie.
The work in question centers on Edward Driffield and his wife, Rosie. It is through Rosie that Maugham develops his major themes. Rosie, an adulteress, takes many lovers, many gifts, and gives love, which is manifest physically and spiritually. All her lovers - including the narrator, a chap from Blackstable much like Somerset Maugham - share in this "love." Her husband, aware of her lifestyle, draws on it for his writing, which in due time achieves prominence. Everyone's happy, right?
Of course no one's happy. Maugham had his share of philandering in real life, and was fully aware of the consequences of sin. The narrator finds being Rosie's lover to be a comfortable and easy role, but is fully aware such actions have their consequences, which I can not get into here without ruining the book.
But I have not been rambling on for naught. This book has some serious weaknesses, chief of which is that it is not as compelling as The Razor's Edge or The Moon and Sixpence. The story's fine, although one gets the feeling while reading that one is not being told everything one needs to know by the narrator. The themes, as always, are maginifcent, telling us more about ourselves than we really need to know. But is the book a must read? I'm not sure myself. Still, it's a good way to waste an evening.
Well crafted. I genuinely enjoy Maugham's style. It seems every author, at some point, is compelled to write about writing. Cakes and Ale is such a novel. It is the reconstruction of an author's life after his death. An ugly process. In this case, one that replaces the sordid experience of inspiration with the conformity of societal acceptance.
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