To steal a fish
- In Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk, Sofia escorts her mother to Spain in search of a cure for her mother’s paralysis, only for the doctor to suggest a cure for her. To remedy her lack of courage, the doctor prescribes that she steals a fish. At the market she eyes a tuna, but pronounces it ‘too big’, before she slips a dorado into her basket. But what else might it mean to steal a fish? And is tuna truly ‘too big’ to steal? In response to these questions, this essay approaches the topic of how ‘stories come to matter’ by weaving together notes about swimming with Atlantic bluefin tuna together with reflections on storytelling and structure, matter and meaning.
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| Author: | L. Sasha GoraORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1219899 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/121989 |
| ISBN: | 978-88-6969-906-1OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Stories come to matter: water, food, and other entanglements |
| Publisher: | Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari |
| Place of publication: | Venezia |
| Editor: | Santiago Alarcón-Tobón, Enric Bou |
| Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2025 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2025/05/13 |
| First Page: | 61 |
| Last Page: | 74 |
| Series: | Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica ; 39 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-906-1/004 |
| Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte | |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte / DFG-Heisenberg Professur für Globale Umweltgeschichte und Environmental Humanities | |
| Licence (German): |  CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand) |
