RUTH RIX

A COMMONPLACE BOOK

 

these are texts that have meant much to me....

HOUSES

Bleak House. Descriptions of houses, various passages.

The Key of the Kingdom, anonymous

Miroslav Holub, The Door

Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House

Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Jane Gardam, Crusoe's Daughter

Susan Hill, The Woman in Black

Ilse Aichinger, Where I live (short story)

GATHERINGS

Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power .

James Joyce, The Dead

EMIGRATION

W.G.Sebald, The Emigrants

EXILE

Yehuda Amichi My Parents' Migration

LOSS

Emily Dickinson

Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation

Linda Grant, Identity and Emigration

John Prebble, The Clearances

Rudyard Kilping, They

REFLECTIONS

Ilse Aichinger, Window Entertainment

Ilse Aichinger, Story in a Mirror

Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shallot

COATS

FOREST

MYSTICAL

MYSTERIOUS

 

 

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