Watching the red and yellow flowers in the sun thinking of nothing, it was as if a door opened and I was somewhere else, something else. Not myself any longer.
Jean Rhys tarafından cinsiyet ayrımcılığı, kadın ve erkeğin zıt doğası, ana karakterlerin arzularının nasıl yerine getirilmediği ve tüm bunların nasıl deliliğe yol açtığı gibi birçok konuyu vurgulamak için yazılmış güzel bir postmodern kitap.
Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys · W. W. Norton & Company · 2016146 okunma
"There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about"
"Two at least," I said, "for the fortunate."
-" İki ölüm vardır her zaman, biri gerçek olandır biri de başkalarının bildiği "
"En az iki," dedim, "Talihliysen eğer."
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“There is no looking-glass here and I don’t know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between us – hard, cold and misted over with my breath. Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?”
Names matter, like when he wouldn’t call me Antoinette, and I saw Antoinette drifting out of the window with her scents, her pretty clothes and her looking-glass.”