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My goodreads says that I had started to read this book on March 22,2019. Surprisingly, I finished reading the book exactly a year later on March 22,2020. No, it wasn’t planned. I had given up on this book then but I have made a resolution to read all the books in these weeks that I had given up on previously. Having read ‘Julius�, I am glad that I made the resolution. Maurier chalks out a dark, mysterious tale of a man telling the journey from rags to the riches in the 19th- 20th century Europe. I remember having read ‘Rebecca� four years ago and sitting flummoxed and amazed at such an exploration of a female character. Maurier has succeeded in painting a male protagonist too and she makes the readers loathe him right from his childhood. Her style of writing is magical. Her writing holds your attention with every sentence and doesn’t make you put the book down for a second. However, I was a little turned down by the building of the stereotypical Jewish picture to that of Shylock- money-minded, cunning, insensitive, ambitious and a hateful man. Notwithstanding this Jewish image, I liked how she explored the darker aspects of a man’s personality; his want to control, possess, own, be it woman or the world. Nonetheless, she has also delineated the repercussions of being a man in a patriarchal society. Julius� character is the alpha masculine, toxic character and his tale is a tale of suffering that comes with unparalleled power, overarching ambition and the need to assert his masculinity in a society where questions of his own identity are left unanswered.
PS- I know times are tough these days but I hope you all are reading.