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Berg Ann Quin

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何週間も。何か月も。何年も。来た。去った。

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Three by Ann Quin

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Ann Quin's novel Passages collapses hierarchies of center and margin

Ann Quin’s novel Passages collapses hierarchies of center and margin

Ann Quin’s third novel Passages (1969) ostensibly tells the story of an unnamed woman and unnamed man traveling through an unnamed country in search of the woman’s brother, who may or may not be dead. The adverb ostensibly is necessary in the previous sentence, because Passages does not actually tell that story—or it rather tells that story only glancingly, obliquely, and incompletely.…

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Berg (1964)

Ann Quin

And Other Stories

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Emotions handled, shifted about, dropped, picked up, but always attached as a child’s pair of gloves.

—Three, Ann Quin

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The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

The One-Liner It’s hard to imagine a book that clashes comedy and tragedy quite so blatantly as Berg, Ann Quin’s 1964 reimagining of the Oedipal myth (read an excerpt here.) Rare enough is a book t…

Danielle Dutton (Dorothy, a publishing project) close-reads Berg by British writer Ann Quin (1936-1973):

"It’s hard to imagine a book that clashes comedy and tragedy quite so blatantly as Berg, Ann Quin’s 1964 reimagining of the Oedipal myth (read an excerpt here.) Rare enough is a book that begins by stating its intention—'A man named Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father…'—rarer still one that proceeds to do seemingly everything it can to avoid following the path its intention has laid." 

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