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Roman Clodia
is on page 229 of 384
'The frantumaglia is an unstable landscape, an infinite aerial or aquatic mass of debris that appears to the I, brutally, as its true and unique inner self. The frantumaglia is the storehouse of time without the orderliness of a history, a story.' p.100
'The poverella of Naples was... loaded with symbols, a sort of synthesis of the abandoned woman, from Ariadne on.' p.107
— Nov 09, 2017 08:46AM
'The poverella of Naples was... loaded with symbols, a sort of synthesis of the abandoned woman, from Ariadne on.' p.107
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Roman Clodia
is on page 370 of 384
'Women writers are still compared only with each other. You can better than other well-known women writers but not better than well-known male writers. Just as it's extremely rare for great male writers to say they've taken as a model great women writers.' p.307
'A book should push the reader to confront himself (sic) and the world.' p.325
— Nov 09, 2017 01:26PM
'A book should push the reader to confront himself (sic) and the world.' p.325
Roman Clodia
is on page 291 of 384
'Lenu intends in the first pages, to prevent her friend Lila from disappearing. How? By writing.' p.286
'Lila's writing... is inscribed in Elena's writing, whether or not she has intervened directly in the text.' p.287
— Nov 09, 2017 09:53AM
'Lila's writing... is inscribed in Elena's writing, whether or not she has intervened directly in the text.' p.287
Roman Clodia
is on page 243 of 384
'I'm interested in stories that are hard for me to tell. The criterion has always been this: the more uneasy a story makes me, the more stubbornly I persist in telling it.' p.243
— Nov 09, 2017 09:12AM
Roman Clodia
is on page 91 of 384
'The loss of love is the common experience closest to the myth of the expulsion from the earthly paradise: it's the violent end of the illusion of having a heavenly body, it's the discovery of one's own dispensability and perishability.' p.86
'It's sustained by the female reaction to abandonment, from Medea to Dido.' p.87
— Nov 08, 2017 02:40PM
'It's sustained by the female reaction to abandonment, from Medea to Dido.' p.87
Roman Clodia
is on page 78 of 384
'I don't think one can know more about a work by having information about the reading habits and the tastes of the one who wrote it.'
— Nov 08, 2017 02:22PM
