Name: Passages
ISBN: 9781564782793

Ann Quin

Two characters - a woman in search of her brother, and the woman's lover in search of himself - travel the Mediterranean landscape, co-dependently bound to one another in a hopeless relationship. Mirroring the schizophrenic nature of the characters, the text is broken up into alternating sections of narrative and diary entries. The lyrical nature of the prose counters this fragmentation, as resonances develop amid "cut-up" dreams and fantasies in a fashion similar to a musical composition.

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jess

within Quin's unconventional, experimental literary prowess comes by far the most fragmented, interrupted streams of consciousness that echoes the portrayal and narrative of reminiscence, dream, and fantasy, as indulged by the story’s alternating narrators. incredibly reminiscent of Beckett's The Unnamable, combined with Lispector's and Woolf's oeuvre, along with its opaqueness in delineate conventional familiarity of a book and put the reading in its imbalance — misty mesh of dreams and journals, the search for another and the unwinding of a self, the inquisitive ennuis that are intermittently recognizable, intermittently stuck in a loop of its ultimate despair of one's humaneness, and the awareness in loosening the rigidness of logicality — a constant state of disillusionment, fragmented in bits and pieces of the narrative of obfuscated Quin's characters, on people uncertain of who they are, constantly afraid of identity and certainty, but while they can go so far as to say: "his greatest obsession was to disappear" they themselves can't do it, not completely. only obsession gives them purpose, and thats being human, or so, as Quin consciously tries to elucidate in this book.

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