Library of Wales: Water-Castle, The

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae The Water-castle yn stori am gariad, rhamant ac anghytgord yn Almaen yr 1950au, wrth i artist a bardd o Gymraes, Elizabeth Greatorex, deithio gyda'i gwr Ffrengig i gyfarfod ei hen gariad Klaus, iarll Almaenig.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The Water-castle is a journal of love, romance and discord in 1950s Germany as a Welsh artist and poet, Elizabeth Greatorex, travels with her French husband to meet her former lover Klaus, a German count.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Brenda Chamberlain was born at Bangor in 1912. In 1931 she went to train as a painter at the Royal Academy Schools in London and five years later, after marrying the artist-craftsman John Petts, settled in Caernarfonshire. During the Second World War she worked with her husband on the production of the Caseg Broadsheets. In 1947 she went to live on Bardsey (Ynys Enlli) where she remained until 1961. After six years on the Greek island of Ydra, she returned to Bangor; it was there, depressed and with financial problems, she died from an overdose of sleeping tablets in 1971.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Elizabeth maps a frost- and snow-bound landscape of desire against the hardening borders of a newly divided Germany. In her revealing diary, she records her struggle to bridge the distance between Wales and Germany, East and West while considering her own mythologised past and real diminished present. Brenda Chamberlain’s writing pits creative idealism, emotional hunger and sexual longing against the brutal displacements of post-war Europe.