Things I Don't Want to Know (2013)
by Deborah Levy
Things I Don’t Want to Know, published in 2014, is the first volume of Deborah Levy’s three-part ‘Living Autobiography’. Levy writes about her life in South Africa, particularly her father’s imprisonment, adapting to life in the UK, and travelling. The position of women is also at the centre – what it is to be a woman writer, the all-consuming intensity of motherhood. The Cost of Living and Real Estate complete the trilogy, delving deeper into Levy’s life, opinions, and questions.
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“In my essay, Things I Don’t Want to Know…I say it’s as if ‘mother’ is a delusion, and ‘the world loved the delusion more than it loved the mother’.” Read more...
Deborah Levy on Motherhood in Literature
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