Power and Uncertainty in Marie NDiaye’s “Vengeance is Mine” – Chicago Review of Books

Power and Uncertainty in Marie NDiaye’s “Vengeance is Mine” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The protagonist of Vengeance is Mine, (translated by Jordan Stump from La Vengeance m’appartient), Marie NDiaye’s twelfth novel, is known to the reader only by her title and surname. A French lawyer, she is Maître Susane, and at the novel’s opening, she has recently opened a struggling law practice. She drives an ancient car … Read more

The Open Space of Uncertainty in “Rabbit Island” – Chicago Review of Books

The Open Space of Uncertainty in “Rabbit Island” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “For me, ghosts are never the spirits of strangers. They are the people I love most dearly,” confesses the narrator of one of the stories in Elvira Navarro’s collection Rabbit Island. Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, these stories often cross the line between delusion and reality, constructs that in Navarro’s hands prove … Read more