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The Tree of Knowledge
Book by Figes, Eva
154 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1990
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Eva Figes
40 books32 followersEva Figes (born Eva Unger) is a German-born English author.
Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now a resident of north London and the mother of the academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes.
In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.
Figes's fiction has certain similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.
Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now a resident of north London and the mother of the academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes.
In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.
Figes's fiction has certain similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.
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September 17, 2023“Pride is a luxury for those that can afford shoe leather, and fine buttons to their coats. Such work as we do with our hands, though skilled, will not spare us the humiliation of begging when we are old” (38).
“Men who cry liberty of speech silence their wives and daughters without a thought, and those who serve them” (72).
“Those with greater learning must seek to raise the ignorant, else we shall never see a better world. But do it tenderly, and not with scorn” (87).
“To have known a little joy in youth, and loving comfort, this is a lantern to us all our days, and brings light on a winter’s night” (152).
“Men who cry liberty of speech silence their wives and daughters without a thought, and those who serve them” (72).
“Those with greater learning must seek to raise the ignorant, else we shall never see a better world. But do it tenderly, and not with scorn” (87).
“To have known a little joy in youth, and loving comfort, this is a lantern to us all our days, and brings light on a winter’s night” (152).
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