Rêvoir
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781803093871
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A genre-defying account of confinement and its literary echoes through history.
As the pandemic sweeps through Paris in March 2020, the writer HC faces a choice: stay in Paris or flee to the countryside? The weight of historical responses bears down on her--those of her ancestors and Jewish writers during moments of persecution.
Still uncertain, she flees to the country at the last moment, with her cats and her daughter, with her diaries and notebooks. What will she do here? Write? What will she write about? Can she write about the experience of being confined? She will write about her cats; every day she will observe their lives and take notes about how they cope with being housebound, and later, in the spring, with the outdoors.
Thucydides, Defoe, Camus, Kafka--she will compare her experiences with those of others who have been confined by malady or persecution. She will write of her mother, who fled impending disaster on many occasions and always kept a suitcase ready.
She too will endure. The important thing is to have a good death, surrounded by those she loves, not locked down in a hospital.
As the pandemic sweeps through Paris in March 2020, the writer HC faces a choice: stay in Paris or flee to the countryside? The weight of historical responses bears down on her--those of her ancestors and Jewish writers during moments of persecution.
Still uncertain, she flees to the country at the last moment, with her cats and her daughter, with her diaries and notebooks. What will she do here? Write? What will she write about? Can she write about the experience of being confined? She will write about her cats; every day she will observe their lives and take notes about how they cope with being housebound, and later, in the spring, with the outdoors.
Thucydides, Defoe, Camus, Kafka--she will compare her experiences with those of others who have been confined by malady or persecution. She will write of her mother, who fled impending disaster on many occasions and always kept a suitcase ready.
She too will endure. The important thing is to have a good death, surrounded by those she loves, not locked down in a hospital.
| ISBN-13 | 9781803093871 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1803093870 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.00 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $21.00 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 210 pages |
| Publisher | Seagull Books |
| Published On | 2024-10-06 |
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