comparative lit......

ok,so.....i was reading a library book on the deck...after an exhaustive afternoon of weeding.......and i stood up with a feverish revelation........this opening chapter was not anita brookner...but colette's the break of day.........few in my limited readership could discern between colette and her detractors......not from disinterest but rather from a general lack of appreciation of madame colete....or from a sad lack of translated works........surely anita brookner has read/absorbed...break of day....i intended it to be my bookclub choice a few years ago.....but it was not available in general print....we read cheri instead......a compelling work made into gigi with audrey hepburn.....but nothing like break of day.....the opening chapter evokes the author's relationship with her mother.....i thought of colette when i read random opening chapters available at nytimes.com book section.....i reread the opening chapter to never let me go...by KAZUO ISHIGURO.......i detested this book......mostly because i found the reality more than i could stand..............may be even more than emma thompson could stand were she in the film version..............but back to brookner....leaving home is a poor woman's break of day....and i am sorry for brookner in her peevish attempt..............