Middle of Moravia’s Boredom and I begin to see why he never could have written a response to this book in the form of Cecilia. His conception of women is too limited. I shall read his other works to see if it remained in abeyance

It would have to be another writer who appropriated and inverted what he established here perhaps.

What he established remains compelling, if limited. Crochet – he knits only on the one needle.