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Dans son nouveau film, La Chambre d'à Côté, #PedroAlmodóvar s’attaque à l’adaptation du #roman de #SigridNunez, What Are You Going Through. Avec un #casting éblouissant porté par #TildaSwinton et #JulianneMoore, cette œuvre intimiste promet d’émouvoir et de questionner. En salles dès le 8 janvier, ce Lion d’Or de la Mostra de Venise est déjà auréolé de gloire. Découvrez la…

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‘The Friend’ Review: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a Great Dane Charm in a Lively Grief Drama
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“It did occur to me at one point that the writers I adored – mainly dead, white, European men – wouldn’t have accepted me, a mixed-race person of a lower immigrant class, either as a woman or a writer,” she concedes. “But it never mattered to me, because I didn’t have to meet them. Only their work mattered, and it was in reading that work that I came of age as a writer myself.”

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Reading The Vulnerables feels like a long, interesting conversation with a well-read friend.

It’s a beautifully written account of what life was like during the pandemic – one we can all relate to even if we don’t yet have words to describe it. I felt myself nodding when she wrote:

That hit home. I read close to nothing during that time. But Nunez doesn’t only focus on the pandemic. She contemplates and revisits and tries to make sense of things through vivid lines, stories, and vignettes.

‘Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others, who here include an adrift member of Gen Z and a spirited parrot named Eureka. The Vulnerables reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of caring can go to ease another’s distress. A search for understanding about some of the most critical matters of our time, Nunez’s new novel is also an inquiry into the nature and purpose of writing itself.’ GoodReads

After being called ‘a vulnerable’, the book meanders through memories of lockdown, reflecting on vulnerability. It tells the stories, real and imagined, of the many different faces of the vulnerable – the old, the young, and all in between.

Thinking back on all the vulnerable people (and animals, namely a parrot) in her life, she shows us what it really means to be vulnerable in life.

The sentences are short, interspersed with questions and details – it’s like memory punctuated. And it is literary – there are bits about writing from other writers, which I loved.

In particular, she shares this ‘foolproof cure for writer’s block’: to begin with ‘I remember…’ and see what comes of it.

Readers and writers will enjoy this book. There’s no better way to sum up my thoughts than to describe it as a long, interesting conversation with a well-read friend, post-pandemic. Recommended.

Thank you to Netgalley for giving me a copy of this book to read.

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'Welches Leiden quält dich?' Als Simone Weil schrieb, diese Frage stellen zu können, bedeute wahre Nächstenliebe, bediente sie sich ihrer Muttersprache Französisch. Und in Französisch klingt diese Frage ganz anders: 'Quel est ton tourment?'
Sigrid Nunez, Was fehlt dir. S. 106

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