Jan 1, 2010
“My Warszawa” is the story of a successful writer's progressive loss of self-control and self-confidence during a week spent in Poland. Early in the narrative, Joyce Carol Oates gives an account of the kind of gossip Judith Horne's celebrity has generated but then shifts the point of view to her protagonist's own self-doubts. Apparently, public curiosity about her ethnic background and essential femininity has already fueled Judith's “morbidly sensitive consciousness,” and this “hyperesthesia” will be further aggravated by the experience of being an...
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