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As Maria, one of her closest friends, remarks about her misplaced responsibilities: "You ignore your children.
The Polish-born professor, a blithe exemplar of the "transnational" tradition in which she places Baldwin, is too idealistic and far too honest — the tender air of Henry James's Maisie hangs about her — to refrain from reporting her shock at some of those friends' remarks.
This is no wry comedy of conversations but a cool-headed meditation on the doomed nature of relationships, on the perennial and devastating distance that exists between people or, as one of the narrator's Greek friends remarks, "the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women and that you are always trying to purge with what you call frankness".
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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com