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120 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1974
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Eva Figes
40 books33 followersEva Figes (born Eva Unger) is a German-born English author.
Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now a resident of north London and the mother of the academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes.
In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.
Figes's fiction has certain similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.
Figes has written novels, literary criticism, studies of feminism, and vivid memoirs relating to her Berlin childhood and later experiences as a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany. She arrived in Britain in 1939 with her parents and a younger brother. Figes is now a resident of north London and the mother of the academic Orlando Figes and writer Kate Figes.
In the 1960s she was associated with an informal group of experimental British writers influenced by Rayner Heppenstall, which included Stefan Themerson, Ann Quin and its informal leader, B. S. Johnson.
Figes's fiction has certain similarities with the writings of Virginia Woolf. The 1983 novel, Light, is an impressionistic portrait of a single day in the life of Claude Monet from sunrise to sunset.
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December 28, 2019
Fact: I love Eva Figes. So much so, there’s only one way to express it: the poetry of Grand Funk:
“I'm in love with the girl that I'm talking about
I'm in love with the girl I can't live without”
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Seriously, add more Figes (pronounced PHI-JIZZ) to your diet. It’ll keep you abnormal, and thank God for that.
Off to dance with a ghost...
“I'm in love with the girl that I'm talking about
I'm in love with the girl I can't live without”
——
Seriously, add more Figes (pronounced PHI-JIZZ) to your diet. It’ll keep you abnormal, and thank God for that.
Off to dance with a ghost...
May 5, 2025
This book was a strange combination of peaceful and heart breaking. It starts slow and unravels beautifully. The layers make it hard to follow until you’re used to it, so it’s probably worth a double read!
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