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Dickinson, Emily: La dame blanche.(Brief article)(Book review)
From: Biography
Date: 20080101
Author:Kechichian, Patrick
Dickinson, Emily
La dame blanche. Christian Bobin. Pais: Gallimard, "L'un et l'autre," 2007. 122 pp. Euro14,50.
"My life has been too simple and severe to disconcert anybody," said Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Born in Amherst, she lived and died in Amherst, with the exception of a few trips to Boston and Philadelphia. The visit of a certain literary critic named Thomas W. Higginson, in the summer of 1876, however, changed her life, present and posthumous. After the death of Gilbert, her nephew aged eight (1874), and of other relatives, death became a familiar, obsessive ...
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