Comments on: “Ghost Flat (A Modern Couple)” by Marie Darrieussecq

By: JK Evanczuk

JK Evanczuk — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:25:50 +0000

Will look her up, thanks!

By: nmj

nmj — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:26:10 +0000

I very much enjoyed ‘A Brief Stay with the Living’ but couldn’t get on with ‘Pig Tales’. You might also like Belgian writer, Amelie Nothomb, I love her sense of absurdity, and the language is more simple, I can read her in French, not so with Darrieussecq!

By: Henry Pelifian

Henry Pelifian — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:10:59 +0000

This story attempts to find a place for the narrator, “a way of living” and being a stranger in a foreign city without knowing the language or culture might move one to create a world to inhabit in their personal cubicle. The inner life has prominence for the outer life is largely absent except for solitary travels around the city.

The story has a quality of Camus’ novel, The Stranger, or Hemingway’s short story, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, though both of these works have a more developed story and are more connected to the outer world where contact is primary.

Link to the Underdog every appropriate for there will undoubtedly always be underdogs.