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"The narrator of this creepy but feministically delicious novella, an early 21st-century novelist decides to write the biography of Helen Ralston, an all-but-forgotten 20th-century novelist she has long admired. In the late 1920s, Helen studied painting with W.E. Logan. Logan painted her as Circe, and Helen painted herself as an island titled My Death. When they parted for good, both turned to writing. Willy became famous; Helen did not. The narrator of My Death intends to do something about that. But first she must solve the mystery of Helen's relationship with Willy and why Helen titled her self-portrait My Death"--… (plus d'informations)
I'm not really sure how to describe My Death, except to say that it's entirely unexpected from beginning to end, and so strangely interesting that I read it all in one go - not that it's very long, but I literally couldn't put it down. ( )
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why must I write? you would not care for this, but She draws the veil aside,
unbinds my eyes, commands, write, write or die.
-H.D., Hermetic Definition
...a typical death island where the familiar Death-goddess sings as she spins.
-Robert Graves, The Greek Myths
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Why do we long to know more about the lives of our most treasured authors? (Introduction)
As I travelled, I watched the landscape - lochs and hillsides, the trees still winter-bare, etched against a soft, grey sky - and all the time my empty hand moved on my lap, tracing the pattern the branches made, smoothing the lines of the hills.
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And when they do, who knows what they do with you? (Introduction)
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"The narrator of this creepy but feministically delicious novella, an early 21st-century novelist decides to write the biography of Helen Ralston, an all-but-forgotten 20th-century novelist she has long admired. In the late 1920s, Helen studied painting with W.E. Logan. Logan painted her as Circe, and Helen painted herself as an island titled My Death. When they parted for good, both turned to writing. Willy became famous; Helen did not. The narrator of My Death intends to do something about that. But first she must solve the mystery of Helen's relationship with Willy and why Helen titled her self-portrait My Death"--
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