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Author Biography
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Introduction
Author Biography
Plot Summary
Characters
Themes
Topics for Further Study
Style
Historical Context
Critical Overview
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Introduction
Kay Boyle’s story “Astronomer’s Wife” is a brief exploration of a woman’s dissatisfaction with her husband and her life. The 1936 collection in which the story appeared, The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories, was hailed almost unanimously by critics as a masterpiece and as evidence of an artist at the height of her powers, and the story demonstrates Boyle’s maturity and subtlety as a writer. The protagonist, identified only as Mrs. Ames, is transformed in a small but profound way by her encounter with the plumber who comes to fix her house’s clogged drain. The ordinariness and unremarkable nature of the action, and its deep emotional resonance, have deep similarities to the Joycean “epiphany” form of fiction while being at the same time striking in their originality.
Author Biography
Like many other members of the famous Lost Generation of American writers who inhabited Paris in the 1920s, Kay Boyle was born to a middle-class family in the Midwest — in her case, to the Boyle family of St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1902. Boyle’s family was intellectually active and exposed her to avant-garde art early in her life — she even attended the famous Armory Show in New York in 1913. When she was twenty years old and living in New York, Boyle married a French exchange student, Richard Brault, and in 1923 moved to France with her new husband. By this time, Boyle was deeply involved in the avant-garde literary scene in New York, and while in France, she fell in with the American writers and publishers of Paris — especially Ernest Walsh, who edited This Quarter. By 1926, Boyle had left Brault and moved in with Walsh, whose child she bore soon afterwards. But Walsh died of a lung ailment just before their daughter was born.
Kay Boyle’s story “Astronomer’s Wife” is a brief exploration of a woman’s dissatisfaction with her husband and her life. The 1936 collection in which the story appeared, The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories, was hailed almost unanimously by critics as a masterpiece and as evidence of an artist at the height of her powers, and the story demonstrates Boyle’s maturity and subtlety as a writer. The protagonist, identified only as Mrs. Ames, is transformed in a small but profound way by her encounter with the plumber who comes to fix her house’s clogged drain. The ordinariness and unremarkable nature of the action, and its deep emotional resonance, have deep similarities to the Joycean “epiphany” form of fiction while being at the same time striking in their originality.
Author Biography
Like many other members of the famous Lost Generation of American writers who inhabited Paris in the 1920s, Kay Boyle was born to a middle-class family in the Midwest — in her case, to the Boyle family of St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1902. Boyle’s family was intellectually active and exposed her to avant-garde art early in her life — she even attended the famous Armory Show in New York in 1913. When she was twenty years old and living in New York, Boyle married a French exchange student, Richard Brault, and in 1923 moved to France with her new husband. By this time, Boyle was deeply involved in the avant-garde literary scene in New York, and while in France, she fell in with the American writers and publishers of Paris — especially Ernest Walsh, who edited This Quarter. By 1926, Boyle had left Brault and moved in with Walsh, whose child she bore soon afterwards. But Walsh died of a lung ailment just before their daughter was born.
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