SHIRLEY HAZZARD An Unpublished Story
Sep 08, 2020
3 minutes
INTRODUCTION BY Brigitta Olubas
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hen , Shirley Hazzard’s masterpiece, was published in 1980, the writer explained to the ’ Michiko Kakutani that she “intermittently kept notes—a bit of dialogue overheard, a quotation from Goethe found at random, a description of a potential character” in small exercise books, and that her fictions began from such notes. Some of these jottings, such as Giacomo Leopardi’s “La sera del dì di festa,” gave title and mood to a finished work; some
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