Anyone read A Month in the Country? What a book!
I spent a few idle hours this week reading A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr's wonderful - and wonderfully short - novel of a Great War veteran who spends the summer of 1920 uncovering an artwork on the wall of a village church. I had never heard of Carr or the book before, which was just a perfect situation - I turned the first page and had absolutely no idea what was coming my way.
Pentiment already comes with a book attached. It's impossible to play this late-medieval mystery of art and village life without thinking of The Name of the Rose, a novel it self-consciously cleaves to, and, at times, carefully subverts. Andreas in Pentiment, much like William in The Name of the Rose, is a privileged outsider snooping around a monastery where a murder has been committed. Both stories revolve around art and medieval politics and the intricate secrets of monastic life.
There's something lovely about the role art plays in both Pentiment and A Month in the Country. In Pentiment, several masterpieces are created, inspired by the dramatic events that unfold. In A Month in the Country, an old masterpiece is steadily uncovered, and we get to witness the growing bond between Birkin, the restorer, and the unnamed painter whose motives and personal history must be inferred or even guessed at.
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