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The Albertine Workout (2014)

by Anne Carson(Favorite Author)

4.23 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0811223175 (ISBN13: 9780811223171)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

New Directions

series

New Directions Poetry Pamphlet

review 1: read on a saturday afternoon. spent the day reorganizing my half of the downstairs: shelving books, looking at trinkets, drinking beer, avoiding the moderate heat of a new found summertime in san francisco. i have not read proust; his books sit alphabetized on the fiction shelves upstairs. halfway into carson's pamphlet i am rethinking my decision to drop out of college, missed those years of ingesting critical theory, instead opted for romances and world travel.
review 2: The fabulous thing about reading Anne Carson is that it is always a glimpse of a very playful, agile mind at work. Rather like reading the whispered asides of someone whose opinion and knowledge one respects and enjoys, reading her thoughts in this piece is a pleasure since she calls out Prou... morest for both his characterization of Albertine, his own obsession with a man it would seem she was foil for, and the strange way in which desire is most manifest as an erasure of Albertine as more than an object-- the masturbatory fodder for the author's whims based on partial representation. Oh, how sweet it is to see Carson use her cunning to unveil that which lingers in Proust's somewhat pathetic and mutilated eroticism. Love this text! less

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