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The Sea's Bronte: 'Wuthering Heights,' Thriving in Caribbean Waters

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19990907
Author:James Polk

WINDWARD HEIGHTS

By Maryse Conde

Translated from the French by Richard Philcox

Soho. 348 pp. $24

In "Windward Heights," Maryse Conde has met one of the most daunting challenges any novelist can assume. She has recast one of the giants of the canon, Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," setting this most English of fictions in her own native French Caribbean at the turn of the 20th century.

It is an achievement in itself to construct a distinctive fictional architecture on the framework of a classic, but Conde isn't doing it just to show off. Instead, she has manipulated the original to her own, ...

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