Hatching, Splitting, Doubling
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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self
by Marina Warner.
Oxford, 264 pp., £19.99, October 2002,0 19 818726 2 Show More
by Marina Warner.
Oxford, 264 pp., £19.99, October 2002,
“... Sylvie and Bruno stories, taking in works by Michelangelo, Col-eridge, Hogg, Stevenson, Kafka, Jean Rhys and numerous others. It is a short book, but dense. Warner’s highly complex line of argument, winding around so much material, and so tightly, produces a compacted, even crabbed architecture. You feel like you’ve stepped inside a miniaturised ... ”