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This book would be impossible to describe if you try and go by plot. There are seven loosely connected stories, but the connections work a lot like memory, binding together in nuance and suggestion, rather than narrative.
Kunder-ian themes of light(ness), laughter, sex, forgetting and memory permeate the book. I was madly underlining and marking pages. Some highlights:
On Writing:
"Graphomania is not a mania to write letters, personal diaries, or family chronicles (to write for oneself or on's clos ...more
Kunder-ian themes of light(ness), laughter, sex, forgetting and memory permeate the book. I was madly underlining and marking pages. Some highlights:
On Writing:
"Graphomania is not a mania to write letters, personal diaries, or family chronicles (to write for oneself or on's clos ...more
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