It’s still not right
Adam Thirlwell: ‘Empty Words’, 19 March 2020
Empty Words
by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott.
And Other Stories, 152 pp., £8.99, May 2019,978 1 911508 50 2 Show More
by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott.
And Other Stories, 152 pp., £8.99, May 2019,
“... In Mario Levrero’s novel Empty Words a writer, unable to change the vast mess of his life, decides to improve one small part of it: his handwriting.My graphological self-therapy begins today. This method (suggested a while ago by a crazy friend) stems from the notion – which is central to graphology – that there’s a profound connection between a person’s handwriting and his or her character, and from the behaviourist tenet that changes in behaviour can lead to changes on a psychological level ... ”