Bregje Hofstede over Ongoingness van Sarah Manguso

Behoud de Begeerte · Mar 27, 2025 · 2m

‘Als er een boek is dat je kan helpen verzoenen met het voorbij gaan van de tijd dan is het Ongoingness.’ Over het boek: In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened, she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of…