Fear of Losing Eurydice
Fear of Losing Eurydice This lyrical novel by one of Mexico's leading women writers explores both desire and the desire to tell a love story. Like Proust's petite madeleine, the island opens up a…
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Fear of Losing Eurydice
This lyrical novel by one of Mexico's leading women writers explores both desire and the desire to tell a love story. Like Proust's petite madeleine, the island opens up a host of images: " Island: the sum of all improbabilities; intoxicating improbability of fiction. In an idle moment between grading assignments, a French teacher sitting in a cafe in a Caribbean seaport town sketches an island on his white napkin.
Parallel to this quest is an archetypal love story that he begins writing in his notebook, printed in a narrow column with islands of quotations surrounding it. Island: image of desire...All the islands formulated by human beings and all islands appearing on the maps comprise a single imaginary archipelago -- the archipelago of desire." Monsieur N.'s original plan to use a Jules Verne novel about shipwrecked schoolboys as a translation exercise for his pupils becomes an obsession to collect every reference to islands he can find and to meditate on them in a diary of his imaginary travels -- his Islandiary. Voyaging and the quest for islands becomes a metaphor for the search for paradise, for the island as an imagined place where love achieves perfection.It also becomes a metaphor for writing: "Every text is an island."
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