Helga comes to the conclusion that both the societies of the black and white people are overfilled with prejudices, and are too complicated for her to be accepted. She is a stranger to them because of her mixed ancestry. The problem of cultural interaction is emphasized in the novel by the description of the gap between Helga and her fiancé’s family.
She leaves Naxos and her fiancé because she is not satisfied with her career of the teacher and the attitude towards her. It is an endless journey, in which the lead character tries to find herself. The whole novel is the description of the endless row of Helga’s trips. Being the daughter of two races, she is not recognized by any of them. She feels lonely, alienated, and unsatisfied with the surrounding reality. From the very beginning of the novel, the author reveals the problem of the individual and its place in society. She was brought up by her mother’s brother. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The lead character of the novel is a pretty woman of a mixed marriage. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. It also evocatively portrays the racial and gender restrictions that can mark a life.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
Quicksand, Nella Larsen's powerful first novel, has intriguing autobiographical parallels and at the same time invokes the international dimension of African American culture of the 1920s. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Synopsis: Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself.
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