ABECEDAIRE

“I wrote five days a week for a year, no more than a page, writing only for the length of the analytic hour, fifty minutes, following Freud’s model of train travel for his theory of free association, acting ‘as though, for instance, [you were] a traveller sitting next to the window of a railway carriage and describing to someone inside the carriage the changing views […] outside’. Many of my women character’s names begin with A: their first names; there are few surnames, save those of the secondary male characters. . Some of these women exist or existed, others are from fiction, or write fiction. Some are friends or acquaintances. None are credited but a keen reader could recognise many of them. I invented nothing. I am the aleph.”

Author Biography

Sharon Kivland is an artist and writer (she has been called a poet, much to her surprise). She is also an editor and publisher, the latter under the imprint MA BIBLIOTHEQUE. Her books and pamphlets include the series Freud on Holiday; Unable to achieve broad recognition in my lifetime, I laboured in obscurity until my death last year; and A Lover’s Discourse / Un discours amoureux, which was shortlisted for the Bob Calle Prix de livre d’artiste in 2017. She lives in London and rural France.