Fading in and out at the end of life
Despite the unrelenting brutality of Nancy’s life-story, there is peace to be found in it as well. Throughout she is sustained by a hope that things might improve in one way or another, the kind of hope that makes life bearable, but death tragic. As she admits near the beginning of the novel (that is, at the end of her life): “Knowing you’re going to die is horrible not just because you don’t want to die, but also because there’s always some residual surviving doubt. It survived in me alright, a fledgling hope, hiding behind the eyes.”
Maks Sipowicz reviews Nancy by Bruno Lloret.
3:AM in Lockdown 42: Susana Medina
Notes Towards a Virtual Lockdown By Susana Medina. Pictures: Derek Ogbourne. Looking at exponential graphs, at data, numbers, statistics, every day. First Italy. Then, Spain. Thinking about my friends, old neighbours in Spain, and that Italy has warned us what to expect: I’m filled with sorrow for you, Italy, a country I lived in […]