2023-12-05 13:33:09
Lisbeth Koutchoumoff Arman Published on December 5, 2023 at 2:33 p.m.
“The more the places, the customs, the circumstances of the adventures change, the more we realize that in the midst of all this we remain immutable.” This sentence is taken from a short story by Susan Sontag, Unguided Tourabout a couple close to breaking up, published in 1977 in the New Yorker. In 1983, the American writer made a film, shot in Venice, with Lucinda Childs and Claudio Cassinelli. Guy Y. Chevalley placed the quote at the top of his collection of short stories entitled The Immutables. And there is a wandering in each of these texts, escapes, journeys, and at the center, a being, narrator, and his “relationship to reality” which anchors him while everything around him is moving.
Very successful, in that they make the characters and settings rustle with the precision and speed required by the short story genre, these escapes are often bathed in sun, summer, the season of departures and vacation memories. The Price of an Uncompromising Look follows Ruth, a writer living in a pension in Italy. She flees her editor, overwhelmed by her overly long manuscripts. Ruth writes a little, goes to the beach, suffers the noisy escapades of the couple in the next room. She ignores the editor’s incessant phone calls. She will eventually answer but in the meantime the place and the landlady will have taken her elsewhere.
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