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The Woman Without Experiences by Patricia Dienstfrey Prose 1995, 134 pp $14 ISBN: 0-932716-37-7
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The starting point of this narrative is a woman at home with young children who feels separated from the urban world of work, her education, her own mother, and her adult self. The double cord binding the moments in her life is the percipient consciousness of the narrator and her encounters with the work of other writers, such as Jean Genet, Simone Weil, and Robert Musil. The narrator's sense of dislocation is transformed from feelings of loss to a recognition of possibility; emptiness and absence prepare an opening for self-knowledge.