Bøger af Ariana Harwicz

Human beings think they know what they are capable of. They believe that they could not escape from the police, that they would never harm a child. I couldn't kill my parents, whatever they do, they gave me life. Or I would never go as far as rape. I wouldn't be able to accelerate behind the wheel on a bridge with my children in the car and fall into the void. But we said all that before. We are not capable, it is true, crime is unthinkable to us, until we act. Losing the trial tells the story of a robbery, an appropriation, an arson. This work is the journey of a kidnapping where life is seen as the preparation of an escape. As Harwicz says, you write a novel when you disagree with the meaning of the words, when stopping the lying is impossible.

The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's "e;Involuntary Trilogy"e; finds us on familiar, disquieting ground. Under the spell of a mother's madness, the French countryside transforms into a dreamscape of interconnected imagery: animals, desire, the functions of the body. Most troublingly: the comfort of a teenage son. Scorning the bourgeois mores and conventionality of their small town, she withdraws him from school and the two embark on ever more antisocial and dangerous behavior. Harwicz is at her best here, building an interior world so robust, and so grotesque, that it eclipses our shared reality. Savage, and savagely funny, she leaves us singed, if not scorched.