![]() ![]() What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did. “Great swaths of her life were white space to her husband. ![]() ![]() In contrast, Mathilde’s half of the novel is more internalized. “You could string together the parties Lotto and Mathilde had been to like a necklace,” Groff writes, “and you would have their marriage in miniature.” There are asides, his memories and those of his friends and acquaintances, but the essential overview of his marriage with Mathilde comes during festive occasions. The reader encounters him at parties, a string of parties that lasts throughout his life. Groff presents Lotto’s half of Fates and Furies in a rather unique way. Such double envisioning results in a three-dimensional perspective on their lust and their love, their misperceptions and their misunderstandings, the subtle ambiances of a long and enduring marriage. The second half, titled “Furies,” revisits the same marriage, many of the same events plus some new revelations, mainly from Mathilde’s point of view. ![]() The first half of Fates and Furies, titled “Fates,” examines the marriage of Lancelot (known as “Lotto” to his friends) and Mathilde mainly from Lotto’s point of view. In Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff proposes a unique way of looking at a relationship. ![]()
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