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Honestly, I bought the year of magical thinking ever since I saw that Rory was reading in Gilmore Girls. I soon found out that I should leave that book as it was a little baby game too far away all. My love for books existed, my love for 'real literature' yet. I think I can even say that at that time I was still discovering what exactly is beautiful and / or find important - both in books and in 'life'. Or, 'my life'. It just did not fit, then.
Not long ago I was told that a new memoir would come from Joan Didion, Blue Nights out. I decided that I should try and now could penetrate. To me the year of magical thinking That did it.
Joan Didion describes in this book the year after the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. He died suddenly, after visiting their daughter Quintana who was in a coma in the hospital, of a heart attack. After a marriage of forty years Didion alone and she understands nothing at all. She can not get a grip on the loss, the sudden absence. The magical thinking from the title has to do with the disbelief that Didion came on. It can not be throwing away his shoes because he would as soon as he came home, need to charge his mobile baby game phone, these are examples of the state in which they have a long wrong, a state that Joan Didion describes itself as real madness :
Deep sorrow appears to be that none of us knows, until we end up itself. baby game Place (...) When it comes to a sudden death, we may expect a great shock. What we did not expect is that the shock is destructive, disruptive for body and mind. We expect to be, to be mad with grief. Inconsolable perhaps paralyzed What we did not expect to be crazy: a cold-blooded type that believes that her husband will soon return and then his shoes needs. (P. 165)
We know in advance nor anything (and therein lies the crux of the difference between grief as we imagine and mourning as it really is) the unending absence that follows, the void, the opposite of all that is meaningful, the relentless succession of moments in which we experience the futility itself. (P. 166)
Why this book now such an impression on me is not entirely clear to me. Yes, it's beautifully written. And yes, it's huge personal and so raw - Joan Didion baby game let us, the readers, are very close. You can feel how she feels invisible, unreal, baby game not here, and the words that she has put on paper seem to help at reality her back. I do not know how it works, but works.
Didion has never literally grief, there are few tears for this book. A sentence like "I do not know how many times I suddenly blinded by tears behind the wheel." (P. 104) is an exception. This is not a book directly in the first chapter to let you penetrate how special baby game it is. By When I came towards him, and when I was about half I wished that the pages would never cease.
As I said recently her follow-up baby game memoir Blue Nights (the Dutch translation will be published early next year) published baby game herein Joan Didion writes about the death of her daughter Quintana (she died during Didions promotion for The Year of Magical Thinking) . I ordered baby game the book as soon as I had from Magical thinking.
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