Posted by vwoolf on November 24, 2004, at 10:23:27
In reply to Re: Anyone read Janet Frame » vwoolf, posted by alexandra_k on November 23, 2004, at 16:02:10
Thanks for that Alexandra. Inspired by your post, I have managed to find a second hand edition of her autobiographical trilogy and have started reading it. Wonderful Shakespearian imagery. I feel quite close to her, having been through the state mental hospital and shock therapy routine many years ago back in the sixties, but in South Africa. Very few people have managed to write adequately about the experience, which is of such extraodinary institutionalised violence. I feel a sense of overwhelming horror every time I read about it. In many ways the shock therapy was worse than the incest, or the marital abuse I am going through now. Only believing I had murdered my father is perhaps stronger.
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