This story, by one of Europe's most skilful practitioners of the
art of short fiction, has now been translated into English for the
first time. Zose, a beautiful, diligent and innocent peasant girl,
works as a maid in the service of a wealthy country estate. Courted
by the local young men and resistant to the attentions of her
master, who forces himself upon her, she is in fact wholly in love
with Tofylis, the huntsman. But Tofylis's good looks and practised
seduction manoeuvres have blinded her to his brutishness and faux
sophistication. This simple tale from 1897 is made deeply complex
by Zemaite's acute, compassionate eye and ear for the lives of the
lower classes in Lithuania at the time. As a depiction of
patriarchal attitudes, coercive control and the limited options
facing poor women, it has remarkable contemporary resonance.
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