The Double Standard
Auteur : Kathe Burkhart
Date de publication : 2005-02
Éditeur : Hanus Press
Nombre de pages : 72
Résumé du livre
?The Double Standard runs speedily, breathlessly, its art of breaking the self to pieces, abruptly in its relentlessness. It is absolutely remarkable.?- Helene Cixous?Alternating diary entries (from) two periods of her life, the author achieves a montage, which avoids flashbacks and projects the reader into the years of 1975 and 1985 through this lost young girl. Drugs, sex, but also the desire to leave it all behind are the leitmotifs of these two complementary voices. Somewhere between humor and despair, sordid realism and childish dreams, The Double Standard is the record of a cruel America...? Christine Ferniot, Telerama, Paris