OPEN DOOR by Iosi Havilio (translated by Beth Fowler – published by & Other Stories)
“I dream of toads, skirts, orgies and horses”.
The unnamed first person narrator of this story is a young woman who has disturbed dreams and finds comfort in the fleeting strangeness of her experiences.
She may or may not have witnessed the suicide of Aida, a woman she has just befriended and moved in with.
She is a woman given to “complicated introspection” and her constant state is one of uncertainty : “I don’t know what I want……I don’t know what to do” .
When someone asks where she is from she replies vaguely “from far away”.
She’s a real nowhere woman. Isn’t she a bit like you and me? Continue reading
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Subtitled ‘A history of insanity in the age of reason’, this densely argued and fascinating book shows how madness as a spectacle and disability has fascinated and haunted the history of mankind since the 15th century.
