The Witch
Artfully rendered by her longtime translator, Jordan Stump ... It bears few time stamps tying it to the moment of its creation. NDiaye’s terrain is psychological; her preferred form a singular mash-up of horror, fairy tale and fable ... Classic NDiaye. Taut, spellbinding and strange, it unfolds with the disturbed logic of a fever dream, showcasing its author’s recurring preoccupations ... NDiaye, a specialist in characters in extremis, chronicles Lucie’s mounting panic with exacting precision, her sentences charting a welter of feeling.
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Written in engrossing stream of consciousness prose, this translated novel offers a subtle, haunting meditation on motherhood, marriage, and the tension between nurturing and trapping family members.
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NDiaye’s novel will keep readers engrossed with its supernaturalism mixed with suburban bourgeois banalities. Anyone interested in late 20th-century French culture and literature will find this book entertaining but also bittersweet.
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