Quotations of a Body By Evelyn Schlag, Translation and Afterword by Willy Riemer, Prefatory Note by Claire Tomalin

Evelyn Schlag is a prominent Austrian novelist, essayist, and poet. Her delicate and dreamlike story, Quotations of a Body, about the friendship of two women writers, blends and dissolves the experience of the living writer and that of the long-dead Katherine Mansfield, using the latter's letters and journal as inspiration. Schlag's style is uncompromising in its detail, her lucid, strong, sometimes fragile words probing the peripheries of modern existence.