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Consciousness Chained to the Flesh. Diaries and Notebooks. 1964-1980

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Sometimes, when unusual thoughts cross my mind, I think of the mother's diaries (the present book is the second of three volumes of her notes) as not just an autobiography that she never intended to write (and if she had, her autobiography would probably have been a highly literary and fragmentary work, somewhat akin to John Updike's Self-Awareness, which she admired), but a remarkable autobiographical novel that she never intended to write. If I develop my fantasy along the traditional trajectory, the first volume of the diaries, Born Again, would turn out to be a novel of education - her Buddenbrokes (recalling Mann's monumental work) or, on a more chamber note, her Martin Eden (a Jack London novel she read in her youth, which my mother spoke of fondly for the rest of her life). This second volume, which, to borrow a phrase from the diaries, I called "Consciousness Chained to Flesh," would be a novel of active, successful maturity.
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