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Gary HallDeborah Levy has a new novel coming out in April on Gertrude Stein:
Not a huge fan of Levy (although I know people who recommend Hot Milk). But was reading Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas over the holidays, so this will be a good follow-on read. Curious to see how Levy approaches Stein.
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
Who was Gertrude Stein? Avant-garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self-declared genius — a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century. And why does she matter? The narrator of Deborah Levy’s latest, dazzling fiction has gone to Paris to find out. There she meets Eva with the blinding gaze, an artist in a long-distance marriage, and Fanny, a sexually adventurous financier; together they cook, walk, read and argue late into the nights. As Paris sweeps her along in its ceaseless flow, she thinks – about what we have to lose to become modern, navigating anxiety, living with uncertainty, angry fathers, making a new life in another country, art and language – how all these things looked to Gertrude Stein in the early days of the twentieth century, and how they look to her and her friends in the early twenty-first. This is a book about how we put ourselves together— an exhilarating, witty, cosmopolitan meditation on the pleasures and challenges of friendship, desire and living with other people. But it is also crashes through genre to create an inspired portrait of Stein herself: a writer who experimented fearlessly with a new way of living and who wrestled herself free from the nineteenth century to invent a brand-new way of looking at the world.
Virginia DeBoltHot Milk, a mother & daughter story
Hot Milk is not going to be for everyone, I want to say that immediately. It's what I would call an arthouse film. What I mean by that is it requires some work and interpretation from the audience. A lot of it is symbolic of motherhood and womanhood. It is not a typical Hollywood style story. There are some spoilers ahead. […]
Lecturas SumergidasEn la isla de Hidra, con vistas al mar, termina #DeborahLevy este libro lleno de meditaciones en el que se da cuenta de lo que realmente aprecia en la vida, más allá de cualquier bien material: “las relaciones humanas reales y la imaginación”.
FilmBookFilm Review: HOT MILK (2025): A Fine Cast Elevates Some Half-Baked Ideas To Ultimately Form an Intriguing Drama
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Chloé
Stan CareyVery taken by this labyrinth of a story, my third Levy, which does remarkable things with the unreliable-narrator device. The rug-pull effect will discombobulate readers looking for something straightforward, but I loved its elusive, echoing quality, and line by line it's so playful and precise
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Wren#BookQuotes
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#TheCostOfLiving
I believe in people who are nervous and whose hands shake a little
Year-End Lists#FT: Best Fiction of 2023
#LydiaDavis / #DeborahLevy / #JMCoetzee / #EmmaCline / #ZadieSmith / ...
https://www.yearendlists.com/2023/financial-times-best-fiction-of-2023
Emily DingI read #DeborahLevy's Real Estate over the pandemic—and recently completed her trilogy of memoirs: https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/05/deborah-levy-real-estate-living-autobiography-interview
I've said before: "She’s so deft at elevating the simple details of life, which we’ve all surely come to appreciate more in this pandemic, to connect with larger themes—segueing smoothly from one memory into the next, and the next. Every detail on its own can seem insignificant, but strung together they make up a lively tapestry of meaning."
