Ophelia and the Great Idea

Ophelia and the Great Idea

Deborah Levy

Language: English

Pages: 112

ISBN: 0670826057

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Throughout this, the first collection of short stories from playwright Deborah Levy, knowledge and intuition, science and love are juxtaposed as conflicting sources of motivation. Each character portrayed embodies a dilemma and enacts a drama in settings that vary from Ibiza to Camden Town, from rural Spain to a precarious rowing-boat. The author is concerned with chaos and loss of hope, with corruption and commitment to finding a truth. She takes our world as it is, as it has been and life as it could be. Deborah Levy is an actress, poet and playwright whose plays "Heresies" and "Ruins" were commissioned by The Royal Shakespeare Company.

The Everlasting Story of Nory

Der Spion des Königs: Historischer Roman

The Everlasting Story of Nory

Glover's Mistake

Painter of Silence

The Uncrowned Queen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks at her sister's belly and stubs out her cheroot. "What if Rosita doesn't come?" Terese sits on the bottom stair. "Then she doesn't come," Magda replies and begins to salt the ham that is to be buried with Mamita. She is thinking about her life. Death tells us so much about what it is to live, she thinks. At that moment the little handbells stop ringing. The silence is terrible. Each daughter struggles with the noise inside her. At last they speak, "Mamita?" "Mam-ita?" Magda has one.

Her sunflower-yellow dress. She had dreamed of wearing it when she went to university in the city. But dreams are dreams. "It is always the women who carry the burden of mourning wrappers," she smiles nastily at Terese who zips and hooks up the black bombazine. "Watch out, I've got ring worm!" Terese backs away, scared of her disgruntled older sister. "Yes. There's a worm in this," Magda slaps her chest. The bombazine is so heavy it sinks her shoulders in an attitude of grief and resignation.

Was in fact a wealthy businessman who owned a highly bankable avant-garde retail and design empire, two shops, a restaurant and a perfume about to be launched. He was twenty-eight years old, wore a grey silk Katharine Hamnett shirt, baggy white suit and t'ai chi shoes, the soles as pristine as bleached almonds. He was sipping white wine and looked very composed. She was not to know that five minutes before (while he was waiting for her) he had spilt the wine and asked the waitress for a napkin to.

Wipe his dripping credit cards. The waitress had changed the table-cloth with all the expediency of a mother changing a nappy. When Shirley opened the door she saw him. He was sipping white wine and looked very composed. "Mitzy!" She kissed him and noted he had scented himself for her, the creases in his neck opulent and too old for his years. "Do you think circumcised penises are less or more pleasurable than uncircumcised ones?" he asked, by means of making conversation. Before she could.

Cooked it for her father. Cassandra invited her father to the preview of her first film entitled Catholic Frolics. Connie had already sent her a good luck telegram apologising for her absence on such an important occasion, but said she was very proud and loved the title. Owen met his daughter in the foyer and was given a complimentary ticket embroidered with a bleeding heart. He was concerned to feel his own heart beating hard against his shirt, a sensation he had not experienced for years and.

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