Eva Figes Bücher
Eva Figes war eine Autorin, deren Werk in die Tiefen des menschlichen Gedächtnisses und der Identität eintauchte. Ihre Romane, kritischen Studien und lebendigen Memoiren erforschten Themen wie den Status der Frau, Kriegstraumata und die Suche nach Zugehörigkeit. Mit Anklängen an Virginia Woolf zeichnete sich Figes' Prosa durch einen impressionistischen Stil aus, der die subtilen Nuancen einzelner Momente einfing und Porträts von Individuen über ein Spektrum von Erfahrungen hinweg entwickelte.
Ghosts
- 150 Seiten
- 6 Lesestunden
As spare and elegant as her highly praised short novels Light and Waking, Eva Figes's Ghosts captures the experience of aging. In prose that seems to measure the very beat of passing time, we follow her heroine, an unnamed woman, through four seasons of a single year and watch her come to terms with her former lover, her grown children, and, finally, the ghostly self that she is slowly becoming. She moves through streets that have changed their contours, landscapes in constant flux, in a body slowly turning into her mother's. As her character poignantly lets go of possessions, memories, and all that she holds dear, Figes turns the ordinary occurrences of daily life – eating breakfast, having tea, weeding a garden – into luminous events through the clarity and beauty of her writing.
