Journey to the Temple

Deborah Levy’s new short story inspired by Virgina Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway was published in the Observer.

“Everyone was talking about the thunderstorm in London. Yet she had slept through the storm. It was as if it had never happened, an event she had lived through, but did not experience. Was she unwell, she asked herself, or just so fatigued she neither heard it nor saw it? Was she in fact, alive? And if so, in what way was she alive? Had she taken a temporary stay, a sojourn in oblivion?”

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