We’re told that as a teenager she identified with Frankenstein’s monster and that she has spent her life trying to get the approval of men. She is 6’ 2”, an angry, undiplomatic, gawky 60-year-old. Anyway, Harry is an extraordinary woman – fierce and fragile, intelligent and frighteningly well-read. Our loft has dozens, and I could spend hours browsing through them. We hear Harry’s voice through her notebooks. Hustvedt describes the structure as ‘polyphonic’ – a musical analogy which I love. Thirdly, it has an interesting, almost bizarre, structure. Secondly, it’s about an ageing female artist – even better. Firstly, it’s about an artist, Harry (Harriet Burden). I almost whooped with pleasure when I opened the fly leaf.
I loved The Summer Without Men and immediately I’d finished, bought The Blazing World.
And it’s not as if The Blazing World hasn’t given me enough to think about. So here I am again, trying to work out the mysteries of eyeing words on paper. As I was reading The Blazing World I started to think about The Cupboard.
0 kommentar(er)
