First to light the night, by Cécile A. Holdban: fifteen tragic destinies.
The author slips into the skin and into the voice of around fifteen novelists and poets of the 20th century. Among them, well-known writers: Sylvia Plath, Ingeborg Bachman, the Russians Anna Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva, and lesser known ones such as the Swedish-speaking Finn Edith Södergren. Almost all of them suffered a tragic fate. This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 54% left to discover.