People masquerade as themselves all the time; the mythology of self-imitation stretches from ancient India to Hollywood and prevails in real life as well as fiction, which is sometimes, contrary to public opinion, stranger than truth. She says she’ll scream for help, but they both know she won’t because she doesn’t want anyone in her hotel to know she has a man in her room. In his chapter ‘The Image of thought’ in his 1968 work Difference and RepetitionGilles Deleuze argues that the concept of a Cogitatio natura universalis, a universal concept of ‘I think’, is a travesty of philosophy because it presupposes a certain ‘Image' of thought involving an upright nature on the part of thought, a good will on the part of the thinker, and the fact that everybody knows what it means to think – a common sense (Deleuze 2004: 166). He has only been in the city for one night and is hoping to get a passport so he can travel to London, where he knows people who could help him.

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These worries are often tied to her ideas surrounding nationality, as she often feels judged because she’s an English woman living in Paris, worrying that French people see Britons as uptight and uncultured. In the novel’s conclusion, however, Sasha’s final embrace of the commis shifts the text away from its critical orientation and towards an affirmation.

In Good Morning, Midnight Rhys created the powerfully modern portrait of Sophia Jansen, whose emancipation is far more painful and complicated than she could expect, but whose confession is flecked with triumph and elation. Growing up in Dominica Rhys witnessed various forms of entrenched social and cultural violence set against and speaking of the island’s violent history of slavery. It proposes that the text’s insistence on masking meaning and conveying uncertainties can be read as a response to the monumental unreality and violence of the spectacle of the 1937 World Exposition in Paris.

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Jean Rhys he Williams was ostracized for her Caribbean heritage and accent—she was eventually taken out of school because her instructors deemed her unable to rid herself of the West Indies accent that would prevent her from gaining significant stage roles. She sees him in the hall the next morning, and he seems angry about how she treated him the night before. And you know that there is no past, no future, there is only this blackness, changing faintly, slowly, but always the same. Suddenly I feel that I must have number 219, with bath—number 219, with rose-coloured curtains, carpet and bath.Rhys drew on her life for the material of her fiction, which is not to say the novels are simply autobiographical. I can’t hear what Theodore is saying, but I watch his mouth moving and the huge moon-face under the tall chef’s cap. But she can’t help delving into the past when she walks by familiar streets and restaurants, which remind her of the many things she used to do in Paris with her lover, Enno. Balancing this focus on fascism the text’s refusal to address this spectacle directly also offers a refusal of the politicisation of art.