South African author speaks about suicide, being a woman and her new book — a memoir
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Word power: Margie Orford’s recently released memoir Love and Fury is gripping, but not an easy read, telling of marriage, divorce, depression and sexual assault.
She looked at how Virginia Woolf’s addressed her note to her husband: “Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again …” She is an easy conversationalist, with a fine sense of humour, but not unwilling to delve into uncomfortable places, so I can understand why she has cracked repeated invites to the festival. she tells the gripping story — political and personal — of her life so far, surviving marriage, divorce, depression, sexual assault and loss.
“You know, macho female, and I suppose it was like Freud’s return of the repressed … it makes sense of us.” “That sounds like a profoundly anti-feminist sentiment but one of the crucial things for me in terms of understanding and writing about all this stuff … and getting better and worse was understanding just how I didn’t believe myself.
“And I thought, ‘Okay, all of us carry these things.’ So, for men, pay attention to what women feel … and do something about it.”is a compelling book, but by no means an easy read, especially where Orford writes about the violence meted out to women’s bodies.
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