Salena Godden
Auteur van Mrs Death Misses Death
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Werken van Salena Godden
Pessimism is for Lightweights: 13 Pieces of Courage and Resistance (Rough Trade Edition Book 2) (2019) 4 exemplaren
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Selena Godden creates a wonderfully sympathetic character in Wolf. But he is not merely a victim. He is also a poet and his view on life and death is singular. Do his conversations with Mrs Death take place solely within his own mind, or is she real? Both are true, perhaps. Mrs Death tells Wolf at least some of her story. The best bits being when she relates a specific death she has been party to, such as the tale of the 19th century temptress, Tilly Tuppence. Her tales and Wolf’s own progression to worsening mental health and eventual (possible) relief at writer’s retreat are interspersed with poems. These are mostly doggerel of a lyrical sort which you could imagine being set to music. It creates a bit of a hodgepodge. But a strangely compelling one.
It might not work for you. But then again, it just might.
Very gently recommended.… (meer)