Daisy HildyardReseñas
Autor de The Second Body
Reseñas
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The more interesting subtext of the “second body” idea, one that didn’t seem explicitly explored to me, was as a phantom of climate change induced anxiety that has come to haunt any informed member of the developed world. While the author never says that this is the genesis of the “second body” idea, I recognized thoughts parallel to my own, thoughts born of trying to wrap your head around the slow motion disaster that has been playing out my entire life and will continue until I die. We are told that climate change is driven by consumption, the avarice of global capitalism, the unfettered growth required for the functioning of society. And yet where do we draw the lines between us and this nightmare? How to account for our own responsibility? The writer seems hew this frontier right up against that of her literal flesh, making the reverberations of her wants, needs, money spent and decisions made into a phantom reaching out across the world. It’s a radical and radically unpleasant conception to live with, but perhaps one necessarily born of the situation we find ourselves facing as individuals and as a species. It’s unfortunate that this book doesn’t find time to more deeply explore this aspect.
I picked up this book because I couldn’t find Hildyard’s new novel online yet after seeing it on the Fitzcarraldo Editions website - I still plan on reading that when I get the chance, as I really enjoyed the style and topic of this book here.