#cassandra: a novel and four essays

[flowerytale]

Christa Wolf, from “Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays”

Florence and The Machine, from “Cassandra”

#cassandra: a novel and four essays #christa wolf #cassandra #florence and the machine #florence + the machine #fatm #parallels #typo #typography #quote #quotes #fragments #*

[weusedtobegiants]

The dead are not jealous of each other.

Christa Wolf, from Cassandra; A Novel and Four Essays, tr. by Jan van Heurck

#quotes #poetry #literature #christa wolf #cassandra; a novel and four essays #themes: untagged

[quotein]

"I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me."

Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from

"Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays”

#christa wolf #Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays #quotes #quote #lit #words #sad quotes

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me."

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays (trans. Jan van Heurck)

#christa wolf #cassandra: a novel & four essays #poetry #poem #writing #words #quote #christa wolf poetry #christa wolf poem #christa wolf writing #christa wolf quote #dark academia poetry #dark academia poem #dark academia writing #dark academia #dark academia quote #aesthetic #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #spilled poetry #spilled writing #spilled words #spilled poem #jan van heurck

[vyragosa]

207.

#rolls #hope had left me #i still knew fear but fear alone does not know the gods #- Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays

[petaltexturedskies]

Christa Wolf, from Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

#christa wolf #typography #soft ♡

[lovely-abeille]

on losing love

leo & catherine, the great // your love finds its way back, sierra demulder // holly warburton // ?, sue zhao // cassandra: a novel and four essays, christa wolf // ? /// ? // horoscope for the heartbroken, schuyler peck // i bet on losing dogs, mitski // war of the foxes, richard siken

#web weave #web weaving #lyric parallels #parallels #lost love #unrequited love #heartbreak #breakup #love #poetry #poem #quotes #love quotes #love poem #losing love #poetry fragments #on love #on longing #on loneliness

[finelythreadedsky]

my personal list of greek myth retellings that are actually good and do something interesting with the myth:

The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault

Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays, Christa Wolf

The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason

Here the World Entire, Anwen Kya Hayward

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles, Jeanette Winterson

Achilles, Elizabeth Cook

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald

Averno, Louise Glück

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

Antigonick, Anne Carson

Oresteia, Robert Icke

Antigone, Jean Anouilh

Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl

Girl on an Altar, Marina Carr

Los Reyes, Julio Cortázar

Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell

O Brother Where Art Thou, Coen Brothers

honorable mention to Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia which doesn't count on a technicality

#you may make additions but i WILL judge you for them #mine #personal to read list at the moment includes: molora; hurricane diane; red doc; antigona gonzalez; home fire #these great athenians; ransom (malouf); an iliad (baricco); an iliad (o'hare/peterson) #for these purposes i exclude the *explicitly* ovidian but not the medusa and orpheus and eurydice works that clearly draw on ovid #recommendations

[maddieisnotreal]

what i could never confess without some bravado by emily palermo // a song for a lover of long time ago - bon lver // lies about sea creatures by ada limón //cassandra: a novel and four essays by christa wolf // the next time we talk on facebook by clementine von radics // i bet on losing dogs - mitski // don’t know

#quotes #comparisons #parallels #compilation #poetry #poetry compilation #web weave #web weaving #webweaving #book quotes #mitski #ada limón #lyrics

[tethered-heartstrings]

"Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays" by Christa Wolf

#will graham #hannibal lecter #hannibal #hannibal nbc #nbc hannibal #hannibal edit #hannibaledit #hannigram #hannigram edit #hannigramedit #murder husbands #hannibal comparatives #hannibal comparisons #the poetic clown

[armoralor]

WolfWren from Ahsoka ✰ cassandra: a novel and four essays by christa wolf ✰ reminder that T*RFs can fuck off, only interact if you love trans & nb women ♡

#sabine wren #shin hati #wolfwren #ahsoka #sabine x shin #sabine wren x shin hati #shinbine #web weaving #the mandalorian #star wars lesbians #star wars wlw #sapphic star wars #star wars femslash #my edits #mine

[daffodils-loverrs]

Shauna Shipman (+ Jackie) | miscellaneous character study

Lucy Dacus, Partner In Crime

Sufjan Stevens, Death With Dignity

Julien Baker, Appointments

Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems; "Songs in Flight"

Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

Taylor Swift, Ivy

Taylor Swift, The 1

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Christina Marie Brown, Ghost

Maggie Rogers & Del Water Gap, New Song

The Cranberries, Animal Instinct

Erica Jong, “Where It Begins,” Fruits & Vegetables: Poems By Erica Jong

Richard Siken, Editors Page: The Long and the Short of It

Lucy Dacus, Please Stay

Etel Adnan, Friday, March 25th at 4pm

Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts

#ok im insane #definitely do not need therapy after this #shauna’s pov #yellowjackets webweave #yellowjacketsedit #web weaving #web weave #yellowjackets #yellowjackets web weaving #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #shaunajackie #shauna x jackie #shackie #wlw #wlw web weave #myedit

[lucidloving]

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays (tr. Jan van Heurck) // Camille Rankine, "Emergency Management" // Gwen Benaway, "Holy Wild" // @inanotherunivrse // Tracy Chevalier, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" // Stephen Dunn, "The Waiting" // @deadbyinsidee // Sue Zhao

#theme: staying quiet #theme: hurting in silence #web weaving #webs #poetry #aesthetic #art #prose #prose poetry #collage #literature #books #book quotes #novels #novel quotes #quotes #words #poems #pain

[asoftepiloguemylove]

i think my body is falling in pieces i think my blood is passing me by

Micah Nemerever These Violent Delights / I.B. Vyache Excerpt 07.01.21 / Silas Denver Melvin excerpt from Grit: A Poetry Collection / Christa Wolf excerpt from Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays / Ethel Cain Family Tree (Intro) / unknown / Fiona Apple Left Alone / Richard Siken The Worm King's Lullaby / Gwen Benaway Holy Wild

i. Micah Nemerever, These Violent Nights

[ "I don't think you've ever felt anything that didn't hurt you. / We've found each other, out of everyone else in the world. Does that hurt, too?" ]

ii. I.B. Vyache, Excerpt 07.01.21

[ "It's time to forgive my hands for being hands. I'm going to hate myself a little less tomorrow. I'm going to hate myself a little less tomorrow." ]

iii. unknown

[ "have you shot a gun? is your blood authentic? is your blood authentic? is your blood authentic? can you prove it to me?" ]

iv. Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

[ "You looked at me / (did you still see me?)" ]

v. Ethel Cain, Family Tree (Intro)

[ "The fate's already fucked me sideways / Swinging by my neck from the family tree / He'll laugh and say, 'You know I raised you better than this' / Then leave me hanging so they all can laugh at me" ]

vi. unknown

[ "I fight. I resist. It doesn't even matter what I resist; there is simply something in me that tends to resist things as they are. I have been fighting since I was very small." ]

vii. Fiona Apple, Left Alone

[ "[Chorus] / How can I ask anyone to love me / When all I do is beg to be left alone?" ]

viii. Richard Siken, The Worm King's Lullaby

[ "Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story." ]

ix. Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild

[ "I am tired of explaining the fire, / it burns because it must." ]

#on loss #on loneliness #on sadness #on emotion #these are kinda just a mix of my most recent favs lmao #poetry #poem #words #writing #text #quote #web weave #web weaving #poetry web weave #poetry web weaving #chloe gong #these violent delights #ib vyache #excerpt 07.01.21 #christa wolf #cassandra: a novel & four essays #ethel cain #family tree #fiona apple #left alone #richard siken #the worm king's lullaby #gwen benaway #holy wild #spilled thoughts

[dysphoresque]

Christa Wolf / Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays // Andrei Tarkovsky / Solaris // Clementine von Radics / Sweet the Sound

#web weaving #i disappear #i disappear on myself #must be nice to be asked who you are and know exactly what to say #bpd #christa wolf #andrei tarkovsky #solaris #clementine von radics #quotes #i don't know what i look like

[petaltexturedskies]

she could only bear to have soft things around her, gentle touches, dim light, muted sounds.

Christa Wolf, from Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

#christa wolf #soft ♡