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."