A review by marjolina
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth

5.0

“because the mother is a mirror in which the daughter sees her future self and the daughter is a mirror in which the mother sees her lost self”⁣

“If we knew, if we understood when we were young how crucial childhood is, no one would ever dare have children.”⁣

“The relationship of a work of art to reality is uninteresting, the work’s relationship to the truth is crucial; the true value of the work doesn’t lie in its relationship to a so-called reality, but in its effect on the observer.”⁣

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