Swag
Terry Eagleton, 6 January 1994
Safe in the Kitchen
by Aisling Foster.
Hamish Hamilton, 347 pp., £14.99, November 1993,0 241 13426 9 Show More
by Aisling Foster.
Hamish Hamilton, 347 pp., £14.99, November 1993,
“... to indulge in a purely selfish prefiguring of the political future. That other Irish transgressor, Oscar Wilde, understood that his own indolence dimly portended the New Jerusalem in which nobody else would have to work either: just lounge on the couch all day and be your own communist society. But he had to pay a heavy price for this prolepsis, in guilt ... ”