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118 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1970
No, my life is no novel; it's more like a book of short stories, many short adventures, happy and sad...(p.104)As the perspective is that of a child's, at this stage we only see glimpses into the terrible forces that rule over Andreas's life.
From my mother I inherited a propensity for telling tales with a mixture of fact and legend; from my father—pathos and irony. My relationship to literature has also been affected by the fact that my father was the author of an international timetable, an entire cosmopolitan and literary legacy in itself.May come back and write a fuller review, once I've finished the trilogy and learnt more about "Andreas" and how the trilogy all links together...
My mother was a reader of novels until the age twenty, when she realized, not without regret, that they were "fabrications," and rejected them for good. Her aversion to "pure fabrication" is latent in me as well. (p.116)