Sunday 12 February 2023

Sigrid Nunez, What are you going through

I love Sigrid Nunez's voice - something adjacent to Deborah Levy and Rachel Cusk in terms of observer of others and of herself as she makes her way through different spaces and places. Nunez does not shy away from emotion, psychic contradiction and the unexpressable/unsayable - deeply moving and relatable. 

What are you going through (title taken from a Simone Weil essay where the original French is something quite different: Quel est ton tourment?) is a beautiful novel about friendship, love, aging, illness, loss, family, sanity and memory, agency and emotional expectation/defiance. Looking forward to reading more by Nunez. 

No comments:

Post a Comment