pickA gem, but a tough one. This 1920‘s novel was a long a ghost text, unpublished until 1992, but often quoted.
An interesting work. Wonderfully playful here, deeply pained there. In the broken stream of conscious fictional H.D. is always searching and never settling, and captures her own strains of the moment. The reader must latch on deeply, go into reader trance, or put the book away. It becomes an experience, demands it of your brain.
I‘m working to get into this. It‘s a charming mess of text, a jumble of commentary, conversations, 1st and 3rd person (on the same character in adjacent lines), playful lazy classical attributions and references. It‘s a little exhausting and demanding. But she‘s quite fun. Written 1921/1926, published posthumously in 1992.
so-soAn autobiographical novel written in the 1920s but not published until after the author's death. It details the experience of a young female expat in France and London. The style is difficult to follow -- mostly stream-of-conscious, only obliquely referencing reality (so maybe it shouldn't have been my end of day with a glass of wine book?). The writing is beautiful but I never had a grasp on the events alluded to or felt any emotion. #1001books
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