Women; or, Pour et Contre, was Maturin's fourth novel, published in
1818. A work of deep emotional intensity, Maturin wished to
concentrate on "common life." But he does so with uncommon
psychological penetration for its time, while detailing the painful
romantic attractions of two fascinating women-Eva, a deeply
religious and innocent girl, and the intellectually superior,
talented, and popular Zaira-to the same man, De Courcy. While also
satirizing evangelical Christianity (with more good humor than he
treats Catholicism in his most famous work, Melmoth the Wanderer)
and the intellectual pretensions of high culture and society, it
is, to quote Alaric Watts, its "profound and philosophic
melancholy," "its terrible researches into the deepest abysses of
the human heart," and its fine characterization of the two women,
that makes Women; or, Pour et Contre a novel second only to
Melmoth, and in many ways superior to it, while demonstrating the
wide literary range of this remarkable Irish novelist.
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