Free Yann Andrea Steiner by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray

“Too little, perhaps.”
    Perhaps Theodora wasn’t a book.
    Perhaps it was too much – that whiteness, that patience, that obscure, inexplicable wait, that indifference – it was too much. The writing had shut down with her name. Her name alone was all the writing there was about Theodora Kats. With it, with that name, everything was said.
    And the whiteness of the dresses and of her skin.
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    Perhaps Theodora Kats was something as yet unknown, a new silence of writing; the silence of women, and of the Jews.

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English translation copyright © 2006 Mark Polizzotti
Originally published by P.O.L. Editeur, Paris, France.
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