#moshfegh

[mariana-mendes]

I´m taking some time off. I´m going to sleep for a year.

[bookmuseum]

“Children are selfish, she thought. They rob you of life. They thrive as you toil and wither, and then they bury you, their tears never once falling out of regret for what they’ve stolen.”

—Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona (2022)

[lets-get-lit]

This was the beauty of sleep—reality detached itself and appeared in my mind as casually as a movie or a dream. 

- Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

[whisperinglines]

Dormire, svegliarsi, tutto confluiva in un grigio, monotono viaggio in aereo nelle nuvole. Non parlavo tra me e me. Non c'era molto da dire. Da questo capivo che il sonno aveva effetto: ero sempre meno attaccata alla vita. Se continuavo così, pensavo, sarei scomparsa completamente, per poi ricomparire in qualche forma nuova. Era quella la mia speranza. Era quello il sogno.

– O. Moshfegh, Il mio anno di riposo e oblio

[sleepygyllenhaal]

https://uquiz.com/2cgiMj

which ottessa moshfegh book are you?

new quiz!!

[wavesofexulansis]

“I looked so boring, lifeless, immune and unaffected, but in truth I was always furious, seething, my thoughts racing, my mind like a killer’s. It was easy to hide behind the dull face I wore, moping around. I really thought I had everybody fooled. And I didn’t really read books about flowers or home economics. I liked books about awful things—murder, illness, death.”

Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

[0vkf3000]

[selfeating]

a lot of my recent experience reading well-regarded contemporary novels is me thinking “wow, this is a really good satire of a neo-liberal decadent lifestyle” and later realising, dreadfully, that it is not, in fact, a satire…