Kate Zambreno writes that, "Roland Barthes must write an entire book to figure out why it is that this winter garden photo produces such punctum. Is it the small tender detail, he wonders, or an overall intensity? It obsesses him with, he writes, in a phrase that I love, 'a kind of vertigo, something of a 'detective anguish'."
-- Kate Zambreno, Appendix Project

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I finished reading Anna Kavan's Ice yesterday.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/807276/s/ice

The Penguin Classics edition has an informative Afterword by Kate Zambreno.

Ice reads like a dream or nightmare. If you need more apocalypse, this might be for you. Instead of getting fried by global warming, the glaciers are advancing and killing everyone. Evidently, global disaster brings out the worst in people. Let's hope this isn't true.

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