[hardy-l] Hardy Talking About Tess

[Rosemarie Morgan]

Always a bit of a problem with interviewers and what they *choose* to put 
on record.

I think we have to stay with the text which shows Angel to be less than 
sensitive and in fact arrogant, narrow-minded and crass -- until it was too 
late.  Or perhaps "oversensitive" when it came to indulging his own 
subjective feelings.

As the text shows, Tess was his redemption, and it would have been *his* 
failings, Hardy shows,  not hers, which doomed their relationship

The rather futile question, to an author,  of  how it could have turned out 
differently (how Hardy must have cringed at those questions) shows no 
understanding of the artwork but only a journalists's  attempt to "Get a 
story" of his own.

Sad.

Rosemarie

>There seems to be a lot on record about Hardy's own view of his
>heroine. It appears to have been a popular topic in interviews with
>him.
>("A Chat With the Author of Tess"  Black and White (magazine) 27
>August 1892.