Aleksandrinke

Mapping a movement of women

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  • Published 20191105
  • ISBN: 9781925773804
  • Extent: 264pp
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SHE IS WRITTEN deep in Slovenian folklore, stuttering into existence in ballads, songs, myths, legends. A woman repeated, kept in memory by her many iterations – and here I am, reiterating her for you now.

She is beautiful. This is one fact that remains solid, fixed as a jewel in the centre of a ring. Hard, cold, opaque: such is the beauty of Vida.

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