🏛️ Politics 4d ago · Lola Seaton

Gwendoline Riley is haunted by herself

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Gwendoline Riley’s novels are not exactly easy to read and they were not, it would seem, easy to write. “I have to get to the point where my only two options are: to do the writing or to kill myself,” Aislinn, one of Riley’s autobiographical-seeming narrators, explains in Opposed Positions (2012): “My aversion is commensurate to my will, so it’s tough. Every word gets to be like a steamer trunk.” Aislinn’s mother begs her to find “any kind of job” to “take you away from endless introspection and

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