IOANA DRAGOMIR

These four volumes make up a reductive rewrite of Pond by Claire Louise-Bennett. Pond chronicles the domestic life of an unnamed narrator who lives a largely solitary existence, yet addresses an imagined reader/listener throughout, continuously affirming herself to them.

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Engaging in close reading, I reduce this text to the self-affirming ticks of the narrator, removing the chronology of the novel while still allowing it to be read as a character study. It is an exercise in seeing a life through the eyes of a third-party observer; my close reading of her text mirrors her own close reading of her life.  

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