let me go on
Ophelia uses the words Shakespeare gave her to choose her own fate.
Following the inventive, moving novel let me tell you, "O" goes on to encounter others on a similar journey and explore her fabulous new world.
Constrained by the 481 words Ophelia speaks in Hamlet, her story flows from this barely perceptible limitation. It hints at a past that is reluctant to let her go, and the undiscovered powers that govern the present.
From the author of Mr. Beethoven, The Tomb Guardians and let me tell you, which was made into a song cycle by Hans Abrahamsen ('The greatest classical composition of the 21st century,' — The Guardian)
| Weight | 0.220000 |
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| ISBN13/Barcode | 9781916218673 |
| ISBN10 | 1916218679 |
| Author | Paul Griffiths |
| Binding | Paperback |
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| Date Published | 6th June 2023 |
| Pages | 180 |
| Publisher | Henningham Family Press |
I was amazed by how moving and true Ophelia’s voice is when up against and, surely thanks to, the constraint. I went to check her lines in the play: yes, all this new life from so little material. She speaks as if feeling for the edges of her world. Her consciousness matures as she moves towards a fate that is already decided, yet we see her decidedly take control of her fate.
— Caroline Clark, author of Own Sweet Time
Let me go on is a dazzling, virtuosic short novel that raises subtle philosophical questions about the nature of self and agency.
— Rónán Hession, The Irish Times
A sensitive testament to voice and giving voice
— Eley Williams, author of The Liar’s Dictionary