Cat's Eye (novel)

Cat's Eye is the title of a novel of the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, published in 1989 under the English title Cat's Eye ( in German translation in 1990 ).

Content

The painter Elaine remembers the occasion of her exhibition in Toronto in her childhood and youth in the postwar period, especially on the ambiguous friendship with Cordelia - the tormentor of her childhood. As leader of a girls circle Cordelia gains power over Elaine, to this after years seen through the wrong game and turn away free. Your talisman is a marble, a shimmering cat's eye.

The adult Elaine eventually studied art, and the novel provides not only the personal development of Elaine's also insights into the culture and lifestyle of the seventies, particularly with regard to the Canadian women's movement and the art scene.

There are assumptions about autobiographical aspects of the novel, as some similarities between the author and the protagonist notice is about the Father, the entomologist the profession. Atwood has expressed no closer to such parallels.

Awards

• Canadian literature
• Literary work
• Literature ( English )
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Novel, epic
• Margaret Atwood