By Amy Tan

Amy Tan has touched thousands of readers with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With an identical spirit and humor that signify her acclaimed novels, she now stocks her perception into her personal lifestyles and the way she escaped the curses of her previous to make a way forward for her personal. She takes us on a trip from her formative years of tragedy and comedy to the current day and her arrival as one of many world?s best-loved novelists. no matter if recalling arguments together with her mom in suburban California or introducing us to the ghosts that inhabit her computing device, The contrary of Fate deals shiny photographs of decisions, attitudes, charms, and success in action?a fresh antidote to the world-weariness and uncertainties all of us face today.

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It would also mean disregarding the fact that while, on the one hand, it is only in death and in renouncing linguistic symbolization that the transcendent, overwhelming experience of unity can fi nally and fully be achieved, on the other hand Ovid did, in his poetry, create linguistic fantasies that made alternative realities possible.

He is allowing it to speak out of him” (IL 92). In this act of becoming, the Child shows Ovid a path to “drive out my old self and let the universe in” (IL 96). Ovid’s plan of educating the Child to speak encounters the superstitious skepticism of the villagers who fear his demonic powers. During a fever, in his delirium, the Child utters for the fi rst time a human word; this causes the family of the village’s chief, Ryzak, with whom Ovid and the Child are staying, to fear that he has snatched one of their souls.

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Tiresias answers Liriope’s question as to whether her son Narcissus would live a long life with the prophetic but obscure reply that he will live, as long as he does not come to know himself (“Si se non noverit”; Met III, line 348, pp. 148–149). Narcissus—whose fate is the agony of unrequited desire that leads him to distraction from the moment he gazes upon himself, and the anguish of unrequitable desire that leads him to destruction from the moment he recognizes himself in the face of the beloved—must be denied self-knowledge if he is to live and be sane.

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