In her debut novel, Scaffolding, essayist Lauren Elkin exposes the intricate structures of desire.
Writing into the physical and psychic spaces we inhabit – our bodies, our houses, our relationships – Lauren Elkin considers what female sexuality might look like without the male gaze. In her incandescent debut novel,, Elkin, a Franco-American essayist and translator, exposes the intricate scaffolds of desire.
It is the women who are allowed a ferocious sensuality. Anna, a psychoanalyst – with an abiding interest in Lacan, “the philosopher of desire” – is not seeing patients while she grieves a miscarriage. Her husband David has taken work in London and hopes she’ll join him there when she’s ready. But she cannot leave the apartment that houses her loss.
In other conversations around desire, such as with her analyst, Anna’s constant hankering to remodel the apartment, yet inability to do so, is challenged. It seems her emotional stasis is mirrored in the poetics of her fixed space. Perhaps grief, perhaps desire, both run along an outlaw’s sense of time.
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