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Title: The Gadfly by Voynich, Indy Publications ISBN: 1404304673 Publisher: Indypublish.Com Pub. Date: 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.75

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: Never stop struggling for what we deserve!
Comment: I would rather say just one word "Great" about the book "The Gadfly" authored by Voynich, an Ireland female novelist.

I can recall that I heard the name in Chinese when I was only six years old. Gadfly can be confused with rogue(pronounced with accent in south China) In fact, I read this book just before my graduation as a M.E. I also lost my once love before that. My own mood made me feel much of what Arthur felt. He loved his father and got to be betrayed. He loved the girl and got to be mistaken. He loved his country and got to be viewed as an unnormal personal(I mean not only the physical, but the mental). That's the life? that's what the life can give us?

Absolutely not, remember it:

Never stop struggling for what we deserve!

Rating: 5
Summary: A book of "power and moral honesty," to quote a critic.
Comment: I don't remember how many times I have read this book. It has never failed to move me. The character the Gadfly emanates an idealism which is very much based on the pulsation of life and love, and by no means just based on certain political ideas. The hero of the book has become a testing ground for the moral strength of the thousands of young revolutionaries of his generation. The Gadfly has never ceased to be human in the book. One feels the vitality of life and love in both the young Authur and the Gadfly. I have been looking for books about and by E.L. Voynich. But all my efforts have not yet been fruitful. E.L. Voynich was married to a Polish revolutionary and lived in Soviet Russia for a while. This book has been very popular with young people in the Soviet Union. It has been made into a movie twice. I hope that the internet cam provide more information about the author. Please E mail me if you have information about the author and her books.

Rating: 5
Summary: The Gadfly
Comment: The novel of "The Gadfly" in Chinese and the movie bearing the same name, are two brilliant works of "The Gadfly" I first encountered, and loved so much, while I was in my teens, although my young age was somewhat restricted me from comprehending the conspiracies and struggles inside the hero. After so many years I finally had a chance to read the original novel by Ms. Voynich. I was trilled. Many details were recalled and many emotional moments were re-experienced, only this time it was with more intensity and inspiration, and maybe more tears.

An epic of revolutions, religions, and moralities, this novel digs deeply about human beings and their loves, the love for their country, the love for God, the love between father and son, and the love between lovers... If its arousing power of revolt appealed me the most many years ago, now stronger the resonance in my heart is the hero's soul, his dilemmas and his complexities. From Arthur, a devotee to God, to the Gadfly, an unswerving atheist, the renouncement was triggered by the betrayal of his confessor (Father Cardi) and the deceit of his "Padre", his actual birth father, the Cardinal Montanelli, intensified through all the unimaginable sufferings (emotionally and physically) he endured, and firmed along the path of his pursuing for true believes. To me the fact that Gadfly lived his most valuable years, and finally died, as an atheist is more intriguing in how the belief being rooted than the belief itself. In reading this book, it gave me great satisfaction in meditating over character the Gadfly, the more so because he was a human being, and a very sentimental one. With Ms. Voynich's feminine touch, the relationships, love relationships, were portrayed with immense depth and delicacy. The connection between Montanelli and the Gadfly truly stimulates me with the thoughts on God and his son, Jesus Christ. The love between Gadfly and Gemma, full of pain and pathos it was, is the purest and the most beautiful love I could ever imagine.

"Then am I a happy fly, if I live or if I die", the short verse written at the end of the letter for which the Gadfly wrote to Gemma, just before his execution, is very simple, but profoundly encapsulates the Gadfly's life, one that was so short, and yet so fulfilling, and one that's likely to leave you reflecting on yours, too.