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Zahara, Gael's feminine character, shares her fatal fate with Marie. They both die in the hands of men's violence. The scarce ultimate fortune of Marie and Zahara brings to mind the title of the only novel I have read since I live in "Bad Education".
"An Unfortunate Woman" by Richard Brautigan does not deal with the reasons why the woman in the title puts her life to an end. It rather entertains counting (accounting, I would say) every minimum existential event he lives as inexistence. This is the only book I have read in these nine weeks of shooting. The author purchased a 60-page notebook in a Chinese store in San Francisco and decided to write up all of them. To this end he dedicated several months of a life which would not last many more (on his own volition).
Even though such detail may seem sinister, this is a true treasure. I do not remember so much life reflected on so few pages, 120. In such a state of absolute alienation as mine, Brautigan's story became the perfect reading. "An Unfortunate Woman" is to be read in small doses, no more than 3-page installments, and given my inability to concentrate on anything apart from the shooting such dosage turns ideal.
ClubCultura.com?
August 29, 2003
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