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Phillipp Schneeberger
What does the woman writer have to do to be remembered as a writer with the same reverence and respect? We can talk about Plath. Woolf. Morrison. Does she have to be surrounded by some air of tragedy? And even so, her sadness is clouded by this aestheticization that makes her work more of an idea, more of a feeling rather than her body of work. How often do we think of The Bell Jar separate from Plath in the same way we can paste and tear Fitzgerald to and from Gatsby? Why is Gatsby the novel of its age, while The Bell Jar is considered a sad psuedo-memoir?
The anwer is no. Because Holly Golightly is a character in a book narrated by a male protagonist, written by a man, who also ends up sad, alone, on the tail end of a miscarriage with a man who deserted her, as she flees to a different country to escape a legal mess that men got her into in the first place (the book is very different, see?).
But I find his legacy fascinating. He is remembered with this strange fanaticism. As an anxious man who didn\u2019t want to be famous. Who didn\u2019t want his work read, who was just so talented that he couldn\u2019t help but become a literary star. No one talks about the fact that he actually really wanted to become a famous writer. He even made an under the table deal to place in the first writing competition that put him on the map. No one talks about his incredibly weird porn collection or the fact that he wrote the same romantic letters to multiple women, even when engaged.
I\u2019ve written a lot about gender and sexuality and writing dating here, and I\u2019ve taken some steps back to work on some longer more serious projects, but I feel this screaming inside of my head sometimes. The only writing mentor I\u2019ve ever had that I\u2019ve respected and has given me actual good advice is a woman (a wonderful one). Because she doesn\u2019t tell me how to write. She doesn\u2019t tell me what words to put down or what shape to give them, but she acknowledges that I have my own thoughts, my own feelings, my own ways of looking at the world and that I know exactly how I want to portray it.
I think of Eva Hesse a lot lately. I\u2019m obsessed with her legacy, because she made art because she needed to and wanted to and she did it in any form with any materials that called to her. She is a real artist.
I think a lot about Madame Bovary and Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s too. They are these two works that have created lasting iconography for women and womanhood that have been adopted by women, even if they are written by men. I have this 60s paperback of Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s that calls her a \u201Cplaygirl\u201D on the cover. Perhaps because men come in and out of her apartment. Perhaps because she\u2019s 18, meandering around New York with an ambiguous past. I really latched onto the world \u201Cplaygirl\u201D in a similar way I was attracted to the word \u201Choyden\u201D last year. Faulkner used \u201Choyden\u201D to describe this version of girlhood that had not yet been corrupted, some way of feminine existence before even becoming aware of a forbidden fruit. I would like to think that last year, with \u201CHoyden Girl Summer,\u201D we exercised some sort of reclamation of Hoyden.
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