{"id":13302,"date":"2012-10-13T15:54:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/the-children-she-couldnt-have\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T15:54:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T13:54:43","slug":"the-children-she-couldnt-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/the-children-she-couldnt-have\/","title":{"rendered":"The children (s)he couldn&#8217;t have"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n  <p>As a child, she was frail, thin, small, but a combination of illness and medication distorted her natural shape. For much of her life Mantel has felt she is inhabiting a stranger\u2019s body. <strong>She looks in the mirror and can, sometimes, see the ghost of the person she once was, but it is concealed by flesh. And then there are the other ghosts: those of the children she couldn\u2019t have.<\/strong>\n  <br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/culture\/2012\/10\/unquiet-mind-hilary-mantel\">Sophie Elmhirst: The unquiet mind of Hilary Mantel<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffAbbott\/status\/257105473747156993\">@JeffAbbott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>C&#8217;est surprenant de se retrouver si bien cern\u00e9 dans la description qu&#8217;une femme fait d&#8217;elle-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cela me rappelle les insupportables vers de Trakl, <a href=\"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2005\/05\/19\/20050519232\/\">dont je vous parlai et m\u00eame \u2014 t\u00e9m\u00e9raire andouille &#8211; que je traduisai, \u00e0 l&#8217;\u00e9poque<\/a> :<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Die hei\u00dfe Flamme des Geistes m\u00e4rht heute eine gewaltiger Schmerz,<br \/>\n  Die ungebornen Enkel.<br \/>\n  (Georg Trakl, Grodek)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, she was frail, thin, small, but a combination of illness and medication distorted her natural shape. For much of her life Mantel has felt she is inhabiting a stranger\u2019s body. She looks in the mirror and can, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/the-children-she-couldnt-have\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chose-a-dit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}