We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens,....

“ We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a dissertation on Dickens, and though my study of the great man would no doubt have alarmed her, I had a funny feeling that by taking on the English novelist I was returning to my Norwegian roots. ”

Siri Hustvedt

From : A Plea for Eros: Essays