Deborah Levy on her "living" autobiographies

Does a house equal a home? This is one question Deborah Levy explores in her recent book Real Estate, the third and final instalment in her series of "living autobiographies", autobiographies written in the storms of life, and not in quiet contemplation towards the end of it. The need for a place of one's own - whether it be a physical place or a place in one's writing – is a recurring theme in all three volumes. Things I don't want to know (translated into Norwegian by Anne Cathrine Wollebæk) depicts growing up in Johannesburg and London, and charts Levy's path into writing. In 2018 came The Cost of Living, where Levy describes the attempt to find a new identity - and a new place to write - after a divorce. In the three books, Levy explores the connections between the personal and the political, the role of women and motherhood, and enters into a dialogue with artists such as George Orwell, Marguerite Duras, Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf. Critic and former Vinduet editor Maria Horvei speaks with Levy in this recording from September 22nd, 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.