The mother is restless & she doesn't know why : finding freedom in the cage

Parker, Gemma2026

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Crackling with intelligence and wit, a critical memoir about how nihilism might just get you through. Gemma Parker's parents were impulsively itinerant, and her literary heroes were utterly committed to following their muse, dashing into foreign lands and up mountainsides. To write properly about nihilism, she herself surely needs to go to Paris! But she's stuck - by a job, by children, then by covid. Nietzsche says that to be worth anything at all, art - and life - needs to break all rules and work itself out from scratch. As Parker reads the great philosopher's work more deeply - and that of other celebrated nihilists Camus and Beckett - she discovers the life-affirming magic of believing nothing matters. And to find a way of being free, even at home.