Passages
Passages A book of voices, landscapes and seasons, Ann Quin's newly republished novel mirrors the multiplicity of meanings of the very word 'passage'--of music, of time, and of life itself. Roving…
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Passages
A book of voices, landscapes and seasons, Ann Quin's newly republished novel mirrors the multiplicity of meanings of the very word 'passage'--of music, of time, and of life itself. Roving through a Mediterranean landscape, they live out their entangled existences, reluctant to give up, afraid of the outcome.Reflecting the schizophrenia of its characters, the novel splits into alternating passages, switching between the sister and her lover's perspective. A woman, accompanied by her lover, searches for her lost brother, who may have been a revolutionary, and who may have been tortured, imprisoned or killed.
An intricate system of repetition and relation builds across the passages. The lover's passages are also fractured, taking the form of a diary with notes alongside the entries. 'All seasons passed through before the pattern formed, collected in parts.'Erotic and tense, in