#anna funder

[askyea-poesy]

She was brave and strong and broken all at once.

Anna Funder

[rf-times]

You all need to read Wifedom by Anna Funder, it's a really well written book about George Orwell's wife Eileen and all the ways that biographers and Orwell himself erased her immense contributions to his books, the Spanish Civil War etc. Fiercely feminist book and a really good read about how all the so called male geniuses of the world have gotten there through the work of women and subsequent erasure of their works.

[nobeerreviews]

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

-- Anna Funder

(Basel, Switzerland)

[gravitasmalfunction]

Richard Rees, too, noted "an enormous change" that took place in Orwell's work in 1936 [the year Orwell married Eileen]. But he couldn't put cause and effect together to explain why his writing before marriage "did not have the grace and charm and humor that were to adorn so much of his later work". "There was such an extraordinary change in both his writing and his attitude," Rees said. "It was almost as if there'd been a kind of fire smouldering in him all his life which suddenly burst into flame at that time. But I can't understand it or explain exactly what happened; I just don't know."

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder

[wedarkacademia]

“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”

― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

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[wehavewords]

“We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.”

Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

[quotemadness]

She was brave and strong and broken all at once.

Anna Funder

[dk-thrive]

for this moment I know where I am going

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going. 

― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall, (Harper Perennial; Reprint edition September 20, 2011)