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A young Italian woman becomes obsessed with a reticent, emotionally distant man. We hear about their meetings, their lovemaking, her longing. Her journal gives an account of these events, interspersed with her speculative reflections on Medusa. Here we see Medusa in formation, Medusa as she might have been as a girl, before she entered myth, an innocent beauty whose quest is complicated by her need to understand the complex reactions she causes in others. Through this imagined personage and her counterpart in the novel's contemporary plot, we are given an inside look at the challenges and promise of the feminine today.
Marina Minghelli, historian and writer, is the author of the prize-winning book, Santa Marina la travestita, a historical study of feminine symbology. She lives in Rome. Beverly Allen's books include Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics of Heresy, The Defiant Muse: Italian Feminist Poetry, Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzogovina and Croatia, and Revisioning Italy: National Identity and Global Culture. |
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