{"title":"Ann Quin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnn Quin\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts novels that challenge conventional narrative forms, plunging readers into psychologically complex and often unsettling landscapes. Her work, including titles like \u003cem\u003eBerg\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePassages\u003c\/em\u003e, delves into themes of identity, perception, and existential uncertainty with experimental prose that rewards attentive reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuin's fiction occupies a distinctive place within General Fiction, offering a daring blend of surrealism and realism that pushes the boundaries of storytelling. 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He decides to eliminate his rival. After mutilating a ventriloquist's dummy, he finds himself accidentally seduced by the man he needs to kill. 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Roving through a Mediterranean landscape, they live out their entangled existences, reluctant to give up, afraid of the outcome. Reflecting the schizophrenia of its characters, the novel splits into alternating passages, switching between the sister and her lover's perspective. The lover's passages are also fractured, taking the form of a diary with notes alongside the entries. An intricate system of repetition and relation builds across the passages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErotic and tense, in Quin's compelling third novel the author allowed her writing freer rein than before, and created a work ahead of its time: her most poetic, evocative and mysterious novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'After her death in 1973 at only 37, Ann Quin's star first dipped beneath the horizon, disappearing from view entirely, before rising slowly but persistently, to the point that it's now attaining the septentrional heights it always merited. 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