[Uber] Charlotte Bell

Je pensais tenter de résumer cette histoire qui m'a beaucoup plu... mais l'auteur s'y est atelé. Vous retrouverez ce résumé au début de son uber

This story is an odd hybrid… it's an alternative retelling of a classic story… it's definitely not your average uber… It seemed to me, in my warped little mind, that our dear Xena most reminded me of another beloved character, Mr. Rochester, the lead character in one of my most favorite books, Jane Eyre. Both are Byronic type heroes, tortured souls with dark pasts… The only difference was the gender. The two begged to be combined. Jane's love for Rochester so nearly mirrors Gabrielle's love for Xena, it wasn't much of a stretch. Why not turn literature on its head and commit the utter blasphemy of reworking the hero to become a heroine? Gabrielle and Jane Eyre merged to become Charlotte Bell. Xena and Edward Rochester became Jane Delchester. As in Charlotte Bronte's classic, the story is told from the governess' point of view. The language threw me a little loop. How was I to accomplish the impossible and recreate the beauty and perfection of Charlotte Bronte's prose? You can't really. So I didn't. What you read here is just my version of it.


Cette note d'intention peut sembler quelque peu pompeux, mais il n'en est rien. Cette uber est réellement un petit bijou de la littérature. En terme de style, c'est une des meilleures que j'ai lu depuis ces 2 dernières années. Aprés, l'histoire en elle-même, on aime ou on n'aime pas...