Human cruelty doesn’t get any less unbearable with a fragmented stream of consciousness. On the contrary, as readers have to work to make sense of the text, they are forced to help construct a reality that otherwise could have been just glossed by. #AGirlIsAHalfformedThing #EimearMcBride #booksky

There’s no destruction like self-destruction. #AGirlIsAHalfformedThing #EimearMcBride #booksky

The form could’ve so easily taken over the narrative. Distracted from the days and life that hold the world created by the author. Fragmented for the reader to piece together. #AGirlIsAHalfformedThing #EimearMcBride #booksky

There are passages that McBride gets away with writing, that would be difficult for another author to write. #AGirlIsAHalfformedThing #EimearMcBride #booksky

To be abused as a child and seek forgiveness because it’s better than being abandoned by the people who should love you. Breaks my heart. Brings back years I’d rather not revisit. #AGirlIsAHalfformedThing #EimearMcBride #booksky

The power balance between children and adults—it’s scary to think that anyone can be so exposed as a child. #AGirlIsAHalfformedThing #EimearMcBride #booksky

The clipped, disjointed language both offers the reader distance to the pain and make that same pain more visceral. #AGirlIsAHalfformedThing #EimearMcBride #booksky

Pile of books by Eimear McBride on a leopard patterned bedcover

Realised I’m a McBride completist after I was asked to do this interview and my prep involved going to the bookshelves and finding I already owned all of these (the festival sent me the new one) #eimearmcbride 📚

Holding the book "Troubling Late Modernism" by Doug Battersby in front of a chair with an orange flower pattern

"Troubling Late #Modernism" by @dougbattersby.bsky.social analyses how #postwarnovel|s by #Nabokov #SamuelBeckett #ToniMorrison #JohnBanville #Coetzee & #EimearMcBride exploit & extend #modernist forms of narration, esp. at the opposition of #ethics & emotion

#ModernistLiterature #LiteraryStudies

Joining Vick for this week’s episode of #Bookshelfie is author #EimearMcBride! Listen as they discuss the books that have shaped Eimear's life, covering topics such as why we should celebrate female writers tackling difficult topics and themes, reading as a form of adventure, and more.

Eimear McBride mentions Sarah Kane in this interview, which is illuminating; and also Ibsen, who I mean to get back to. I don't really know which German literature she is referring to, can only guess. #EimearMcBride