In fact Even in Paradise reminded me of nothing so much as The Great Gatsby. I assume the Cordelia character was a drip on purpose? As a nod to the original? What I know of King Lear has come to me through cultural osmosis, and as such I can’t speak much to the manner in which Nunez adapts it. So, as I confessed to Whiskey Jenny on our most recent podcast, I’ve never read or seen King Lear. Even in Paradise is a retelling of King Lear: Wealthy white Peter Ducksworth has moved from Trinidad to Barbados - the cynical say to find white husbands for his three daughters - and now, a few years later, he has decided to divide his properties among his daughters now, to avoid future strife. If Elizabeth Nunez wanted to make it her thing to retell all the Shakespeare plays with Caribbean settings, I’d be here for it.
I was like, Oo, a romance between Miranda and an educated Caliban? SOUNDS GREAT, and I googled it thinking probably Cesaire, and while Cesaire did in fact write a play that retells The Tempest, the narrator of Even in Paradise was in fact referring to Nunez’s own 2006 novel, Prospero’s Daughter. Fail it and all you say about the races being equal, that character, not color, is what matters, becomes theoretical. Okay, Elizabeth Nunez got me good about two-thirds of the way through her latest book, Even in Paradise (affiliate links: Book Depository, Amazon).Īs a writer from my homeland put it in her fictionalized version of a romance between Miranda and an educated Caliban: Pass and I believe you.
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