Apparently this short experimental novel, Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys, published in 1938, temporarily ended Rhys’ writing career, the novel was so depressing. I’m here to validate that. Think Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell but instead written by a really clinically depressed person who sees no way forward in life. She abuses herself and is abused in turn. Crappy hotels, dirty restaurants, abusive men in bars. The ending section is a long interior monologue, confused and choppy, about what seems to have been sexual assault in the hotel room in Paris. Really sad and depressing.
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Sortie d’animation au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba (CLEB)
- Compte rendu d’une sortie de l’animateur à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Some photos from Nyariga community library in June
- Échange avec un nouveau lecteur de la bibliothèque de Boni
- Gowrie Kunkua community library during the night session
- Encadrement du gérant de la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Sumbrungu Community Library, mid June
- A class came to read at Sherigu library in June, with their science teacher
- Compte rendu d’animation à la bibliothèque de Dohoun
- Une journée d’animation dynamique à la bibliothèque de Koho