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The Ravishing of Lol Steinby Marguerite DurasDuras …
There is no one like her, who speaks with such simple and yet high-flown authority.
Her tone is Biblical, absolute.
It is bewitching, playful, poetic, and really beautiful.
Ingrid Caven looks like Marlene Dietrich and sings like Lotte Lenya.
There is a lightness to its artfulness that deserves reading and rereading.
I adore this novel about vision, and film, and women.
This is a novel of ultimate destruction and grace.
It has in it the whole lived world, also heaven, also hell.
The voice here is transfixing.
The end is so incredibly moving.
In sum, no one is innocent, not even Malaparte.
And its arguments ask to be revisited on multiple occasions.
You might recall the title if you readBetween the World and Me.
This book is not personal like Ta-Nehisi Coatess; it is objective and rigorous.
Fields and Karen E. Fields explain what race is, and what it isnt.
