Longings and belongings
Subtitle: essays
By: by Nancy Huston.
Publisher: McArthur
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Work titles: Essays.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-364).
Table of contents: title: Simone de Beauvoir's children; title: Two stars, polarized : Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; title: A tongue called mother; title: Novels and navels; title: Letter to Simone Weil, with passages of time; title: Erotic literature in post-war France; title: Three men and a cradle : Kundera, Bobin, Handke; title: The limits of the absolute : Marguerite Duras; title: Good faith, bad conscience : Tolstoy and Sartre; title: Destroy, she said : Elfriede Jelinek; title: Reassuring strangeness; title: Reassuring strangeness revisited; title: Calgary, France; title: Singing the plains; title: Towards a patriotism of ambiguity; title: On being beautiful; title: The gospel according to Saint Matthew; title: The decline of "identity"?; title: Knowledge uprooted; title: The foreign mother.