Eternal Return in “Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen”

Eternal Return in "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen"

[ad_1] Suzanne Scanlon’s Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen excavates some of her most formative memories for clues to her evolving selfhood. The death of her mother when Scanlon was nine years old, her relationship to literature, particularly the writings of Marguerite Duras, and her years spent institutionalized are linchpins in this layered examination of sanity … Read more

Unsteady and Yet Gripping Storytelling “The Committed” – Chicago Review of Books

Unsteady and Yet Gripping Storytelling “The Committed” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It’s easy to feel like you really know a character after reading a confessional novel. But like people, characters evolve too. In a great novel, they react and change with their conditions. Such is the case in The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s thrilling sequel to his Pulitzer Prize winning debut novel, The Sympathizer. When … Read more