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Michael Guest

Writer and editor, blogger on books and ideas. Former university lecturer and professor.

Simone de Beauvoir and Sexual Symbolism in Wonder Woman (2017)

By Michael Guest on July 15, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Wonder Woman (dir. Patty Jenkins) was screened on TV the day after I happened to be reading the first part of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, her finely honed analysis of the cultural perception of womanhood. I knew there existed ample literature on the cultural and feminist […]

Revisiting Samuel Beckett (Ill Seen Ill Said)

By Michael Guest on July 1, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Stooped as loving memory some old gravestones stoop. In that old graveyard. Names gone and when to when. Once hooked, always will be, on these writings of Samuel Beckett. On. Sometimes referred to as “novels,” Beckett’s three later works, Company (1980), Ill Seen Ill Said (1981) and Worstward […]