Agatha Christie: Nedokončený portrét (pod pseudonymem Mary Westmacott) - CDmp3 (Čte Jan Vlasák)

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published a literary portrait of part of her life under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Through the character of Celia in the novel Unfinished Portrait, she depicts her carefree childhood and adolescence, her strong bond with her mother, marriage, the birth of her daughter, the breakdown of her marriage, a mental breakdown, and a suicide attempt. ***** Celia faces a marital crisis at a time when she is shaken by her mother's death and is heading towards a nervous breakdown. Celia contemplates suicide, travels to an exotic island, where she randomly meets Larraby, a former portrait painter, to whom she reveals her life story in just one night – a childhood spent with imaginary companions and an old grandmother, music studies in Paris, courtship with an officer, a passionate romance and marriage to a handsome soldier, the death of her beloved mother, and a divorce that leaves her alone with her daughter. Will Larraby help her come to terms with her life and past? ***** Only the initiated may know how much real history it contains, but in Celia, we have such a fitting portrait of Agatha like nowhere else. (Max Mallovan, Agatha Christie's second husband) ***** Total time 6 hours 16 minutes.