![]() The original subjects of those works end up obscured even from Representational practices through games of careless tennis between communities Real women than with their reflections, which are then elaborated into Those projects’ origins, Diski says, belong less with His reflection standing next to hers and telling her, ‘That is you.’”Ĭreative projects of men. The second soldier stood next to her, and “she watched Her other things she hungered for: a mirror and a calendar. Her food, which he liked to watch her eat. Time, a princess lived in a tower all alone. The first story is about the eponymous princess, but its subtitle-“Or, The Origin of Cubism”-suggests something more than a modern fairytale. ![]() The Vanishing Princess finds Diski in reflective mode. ![]() She seemed to always have been there, a ubiquitous voice that, as this collection shows, turns out to have been irreplaceable. In her introduction toĪrtist’s sketchbook” for Diski, who, before her death in 2016, was better known for her ten novels, eight works of nonfiction, and reams of criticism for The London Review of Books. ![]() Jenny Diski’s only collection of short stories, recently published for theįirst time in the U.S. ![]()
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