والان مع سر الروعة في رواية
85 ـ إدارة المنزل، للمؤلفةمارلينروبنسون.

Housekeeping is a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson. It was published in 1980, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (which Robinson would eventually win for her second novel, Gilead), and given the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel.


In 2003, the Guardian Unlimited named Housekeeping one of the 100 greatest novels of all time. Time magazine also included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005., describing the book thus: "Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women."


Plot summary


Ruth narrates the story of how she and her younger sister Lucille are raised by a succession of relatives in the fictional town of Fingerbone, Idaho (some details are similar to Robinson's hometown, Sandpoint, Idaho).


روث بطلة القصة تروي كيف عاشت هي واختها الصغيرة طفلتهن حيث تم الاعتناء بهن من قبل عدد من الاقارب في قرية متخيلة رغم التشابه الكبير في بعض التفاصيل بينها وبين القرية التي عاشت فيها الكاتبة


Eventually their aunt Sylvie (who has been living as a transient) comes to take care of them. Initially they become a close knit group, but as Lucille grows up she comes to dislike their eccentric lifestyle and she moves out. Then when Ruth's well-being is being questioned by the courts, Sylvie returns to living on the road and takes Ruth with her.


وفي النهاية تأتي الخالة سيلفي (البوهيمية) للاعتناء بهما ولاحقا تغادر البنت الصغرى وعندما تمرض الكبيرة تعود سيلفي لتعيش حياة البوهيمين وتأخذها معها


The novel treats the subject of housekeeping, not only in the domestic sense of cleaning, but in the larger sense of keeping a spiritual home for one's self and family in the face of loss, for the girls experience a series of abandonments as they come of age.


تعالج الرواية كيفية ادارة المنزل في حالة الفقد حيث ان الفتاتان تمران في عدة تجارب من الفقد


The events take place in an uncertain time, in that no dates are mentioned; however, Ruth refers to her grandfather living in a sod dugout in the Midwest, before his journey to Fingerbone, while she herself traverses adolescence sometime in the latter half of the 20th century, as Ruth reads the novel Not as a Stranger, a bestseller from 1954.


Characters


Ruth the narrator of the story. Ruth narrates from the perspective of the Transparent eyeball. This narration style was used by the trancendentalist authors that influenced Marilynne Robinson, including Ralph Waldo Emerson.[3]


Lucille Ruth's younger sister.


Helen the mother of Ruth and Lucille who in the novel commits suicide.


هلن احدى الشخصيات في الرواية هي الوالده وهي تنتحر


Sylvie Helen's younger sister who comes to Fingerbone to take care of Ruth and Lucille.


سيلفي هي اخت هلن الصغرى


Molly Helen's older sister. Molly left Fingerbone to do missionary work as a bookkeeper in the Honan Province of China.


Sylvia Foster Ruth's Grandmother. Sylvia lived her entire life in Fingerbone, accepted the basic religious dogma of an afterlife, and lived her life accordingly.


Edmund Foster Ruth's Grandfather and Sylvia's husband. He was raised in a house, dug out of the ground, in the Middle West. He is consumed with wanderlust and a desire to paint mountains. This desire leads to his job on a train and the related events form the foundation of the novel. Working on the train, he is killed in its crash into the lake of Fingerbone.


Lily Foster Sylvia Foster's sister-in-law, one of two who came from Spokane to care for Ruth.


Nona Foster Sylvia Foster's other sister-in-law.


Bernice is a friend of Helen's who lived below Ruth and her mom, Helen, when they lived in a tall grey building. Bernice urged Helen to visit her estranged mother and lent Helen her car so she could travel to see her. (the same car Helen used to drive herself off the bridge)


Ettie is a friend of Ruth's Grandmother, Sylvia Foster. A tiny old lady, whose skin was the color of toadstools

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Named by The Observer one of the 100 greatest novels of all time and Time Magazine’s s TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. From Wikipedia’s plot summary: “Ruth narrates the story of how she and her younger sister Lucille are raised by a succession of relatives in the fictional town of Fingerbone, Idaho . . . Eventually their aunt Sylvie (who has been living as a transient) comes to take care of them. Initially they become a close knit group, but as Lucille grows up she comes to dislike their eccentric lifestyle and she moves out. Then when Ruth’s well-being is being questioned by the courts, Sylvie returns to living on the road and takes Ruth with her. The novel treats the subject of housekeeping, not only in the domestic sense of cleaning, but in the larger sense of keeping a spiritual home for one’s self and family in the face of loss, for the girls experience a series of abandonments as they come of age