“Ghost Flat (A Modern Couple)” Marie Darrieussecq “You vary yourself according to the wavelength. You change your shape, your volume, your color, and you then belong so completely to the space, that the flat lived in me just as much as I did in it. Clarity of thought became one of its dimensions.” The author in her story “Ghost flat” describes her stay in the city of Tokyo. She mentions herself as a lodger and focuses on her 20 square meter ghost flat where she resides. It’s a place of her solitude where she no more feels like an outsider. The flat is architecturally designed as such that there is an intersection of spectrums of spaces, one room haunted by other room. The rooms in this flat are not defined by different spaces and they do not take shape in three dimensions instead they come into existence by changing the wavelengths. The author has becomes so accustomed to the norms of the small house that she feels that she is a part of it, She has clearly remembered the circulation through the different parts of the space and recognised its fluid character on the bases of its changing behaviour. She often roamed around the city of Tokyo to discover what it held for her, but the ever expanding and moving city scared her. The author often felt the need to get back to her lodging as soon as possible for she was frightened of getting lost in the noise of the city. One always finds a way to escape ones loneliness in life and according to me this was the author’s way. She began visualizing the presence of another form in her apartment. It dint scare her a bit, instead it gave her company while having meals or at night on the bed. She longed for its presence whenever she couldn’t see it, which tells us that she could not bear to be alone. The new city and her 20 square meter flat had left her longing for company which she then created in her own head. The author wondered whether it was her host or guest but could not realise that it was just a shape in her head that accompanied her throughout the house to save her from its extremeness.
Ghost Flat (A Modern Couple)Marie DarrieussecqYou vary yourself
according to the wavelength. You change your shape, your volume,
your color, and you then belong so completely to the space, that
the flat lived in me just as much as I did in it. Clarity of
thought became one of its dimensions.The author in her story Ghost
flat describes her stay in the city of Tokyo. She mentions herself
as a lodger and focuses on her 20 square meter ghost flat where she
resides. Its a place of her solitude where she no more feels like
an outsider. The flat is architecturally designed as such that
there is an intersection of spectrums of spaces, one room haunted
by other room. The rooms in this flat are not defined by different
spaces and they do not take shape in three dimensions instead they
come into existence by changing the wavelengths.The author has
becomes so accustomed to the norms of the small house that she
feels that she is a part of it, She has clearly remembered the
circulation through the different parts of the space and recognised
its fluid character on the bases of its changing behaviour.She
often roamed around the city of Tokyo to discover what it held for
her, but the ever expanding and moving city scared her. The author
often felt the need to get back to her lodging as soon as possible
for she was frightened of getting lost in the noise of the city.One
always finds a way to escape ones loneliness in life and according
to me this was the authors way. She began visualizing the presence
of another form in her apartment. It dint scare her a bit, instead
it gave her company while having meals or at night on the bed. She
longed for its presence whenever she couldnt see it, which tells us
that she could not bear to be alone. The new city and her 20 square
meter flat had left her longing for company which she then created
in her own head. The author wondered whether it was her host or
guest but could not realise that it was just a shape in her head
that accompanied her throughout the house to save her from its
extremeness.The author had become used to living in the flat with
it. She believed that things in her house were perfectly in place
and they both had learnt to fit into the space by becoming as fluid
as its character and memorising the location of every visible
object while keeping in mind that the invisible stays where they
are.
