The Busetto, Penny. creator text novel sa Auckland Park Jacada Media (Pty) Ltd c2014 2014 monographic eng

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xii, 155 pages ; 24 cm "This is a book about the fragility of memory and identity, and the nature of time. It has three parts reflecting the past, present and future of a woman, Anna P, who lives on an island off the coast of Italy but can no longer remember how she got there. She comes from South Africa but has almost no memories of the place or people there, and no attachment to them. The only person she has any relationship with is a sex worker whom she pays by the hour. Her life is meaningless. She has abusive encounters with unknown men, clearly repetitions of traumatic events in the past, during which she dissociates. It is not clear whether she occasionally kills these men or not. It is only when she begins to connect emotionally with a slightly retarded child, and her self begins to coagulate around a tiny centre core of meaning, that she finds some value in herself, some place which she will not allow to be abused. Through connection with another person, she comes into an ethical relationship with the world." -- Description from thesis. by Penny Busetto. "Winner of the European Union Literary Award." -- Cover. Original title: M.A. thesis in Creative Writing, University of Cape Town, 2011. e-it--- Psychic trauma Fiction Identity (Psychology) Fiction Sex crimes Fiction Amnesia Fiction South Africans Italy Fiction Teachers Italy Fiction PR9369.4 .B87S76 2014 9781431410163 2014416018 OI@ 140902 20190213020035.0 18287419 eng