The Unmapped Country by Ann Quin

Author:Ann Quin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary fiction;literary fiction;short stories;sixties;swinging sixties;60s;London;Brighton;UK;United Kingdom;Great Britain;British;lost classic;cult classic;Kathy Acker;Chris Kraus;Joanna Walsh;Ali Smith;Angela Carter;Anna Kavan;Muriel Spark;Iris Murdoch;BS Johnson;Alain Robbe-Grillet;Christa Wolf;Virginia Woolf;modernist;postmodernist;experimental writer;women writers;avant garde;pop art;art writing;Dalkey Archive;Pinter;Beckett;Berg;Tripticks;Three;Albert Angelo;Trawl;House Mother Normal;The Unfortunates;Christine Brook-Rose;Amalgamemnon;Stewart Home;69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess;Susan Howe;The Midnight;Djuna Barnes;Nightwood;The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie;The Comforters;Virago;Nouveau Roman;Lee Rourke;Trocchi;Burroughs
Publisher: And Other Stories Publishing
Published: 2017-10-04T17:20:37+00:00

They walked on through the crowded streets, past stalls with many coloured ribbons, material. They were stared at. Surrounded when they decided to have their feet measured for sandals. The leather felt good, strong, yet light on her feet. But she was aware the women giggled as she walked by. Back in the hotel she took the sandals off. Soon she heard the priest’s voice, as if through a microphone, sounding similar to the ‘rainmaker’s’.

He had gone across to his studio, opposite the hotel. A large empty loft place he had rented with much haggling from a man whose face was covered in carbuncles. Who was always sat outside the doorway. Was his body covered in carbuncles? She shivered. Yet it was hot. Unbearably so. She found a shaded part on the balcony to read. Even reading proved difficult. She found herself looking down at those who came and went, or just squatted outside stores. Beggars who stood silently outside the hotel entrance, and waited until someone from the kitchen brought them something, a tortilla, something perhaps they themselves had left at lunchtime. Beggars that were very different from those in the cities. Their eyes alone asking, without demanding.

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