The Companion a Novel

192 sayfa. 13x19 cm
The Companion is an anti-bildungsroman, a novel about the disability or refusal to grow. Disability to grow has a history of course: Pale, brittle and vulnerable children – children are as light as feathers, children weigh

next to nothing when adults try to pick them up to hold them, children get smaller and smaller through the novel. This is the history of how such children alternately rebel against and are crushed by the adult world.

There are dwarves accompanying them, these dwarves follow them like their shadows as if these transparent children cast no shadows of their own.”

Jale Parla

“With your poor grasp of cause and effect relationships, and your worship of people who go out and spend all their money, as if that’s what it takes to be ‘important.’ Of course, it doesn’t take much to satisfy someone like you. They’ve been mass-producing your type for the past 10-20 years. I see versions of you everywhere, Mary Jane Primrose.”

“I may not be the kind of person who pri

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