Heroines by Kate Zambreno

Author:Kate Zambreno [Zambreno, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

Funny. I never thought of myself as the sacrificial type.

I think of these literary wives who picked up and went where their husbands wanted to, to whichever Shangri-La where the men could finish the book—everything in service of an eventual masterpiece. The self-imposed exile of wifedom.

The subaltern condition of being a literary wife—she must believe in the myth of his eventual genius even before he has realized it. See also: literary sister (Wordsworth’s) or mother (Flaubert’s).

If the modern husbands/serious writers were widowers to their wives’ maladies (an overwriting, as Tom and Paul were both sickly types, and Scott eternally sloppy), these women were widows to the cult of the book to be birthed. (She doomed to immanence, he allowed transcendence, or the time to procrastinate wildly and eventually get the words on the page, words marrying more words.)

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