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Ravn, Olga

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 375500030X ISBN 13: 9783755000303

Publisher: März Verlag GmbH, 2024

Synopsis

How can you be a caring mother without losing yourself?
After the birth of her son, writer Anna loses her place in the world. Still floating after childbirth, she moves with her Swedish friend Aksel and her little son to snowy Stockholm. Much too soon, the couple falls into overcome gender roles against their declared will. Anna is completely taken by the reality of the new life that demands her complete attention. You don't even have time for a single clear thought. The frustration between her and Aksel becomes so great that her relationship threatens to break.
To combat her ever-increasing anxiety, Anna begins to read countless online articles and buy expensive clothes she can't afford at all. Anna is sure there is only one way to escape the impending madness: she must read and write. Only in this way can she become a part of the world again.
My work is about the unique and fundamental experience of the birth of a child. Prose, poems, diary, letters - each literary form is used to explore the relationship between motherhood and writing. My work is also: a book about postpartum depression, household, and shopping. But above all, it is a great novel about the question of the compatibility of artistic creation, everyday life, and motherhood. And about how to learn to love the scary life with a child.
»This novel by Olga Ravn, this ›The Golden Notebook‹ of the present must necessarily be read by anyone who has come to know the silent madness and claustrophobic happiness of the inside, especially by mothers who yearn for a life in literature. But this novel must be read by everyone else. Oh, Olga Ravn, you're always inventing new forms, you're a genius, how do you do that?"
Kate Zambreno

Edition details

• Publisher: März Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 375500030X
• ISBN 13: 9783755000303
• Binding: Hardcover