Guernica Editions

Who is this woman I've called the Countess? Her origins are obscure but real. Fiction can be more convincing than life. The Countess has another dimension I recognize as the tangible self, far more interesting than a journal or an essay or a speech on abuses and how to correct them. This woman called the Countess is a caricature you say? I say she hides behind caricature to better obtain her ends; she fools others, and often herself, but she uses her wit like one adept in karate; she uses her many disguises not to hide from men, but to give her a vantage point where she has the leisure to study them before acting. But all of her many moods simply give her a roundness that sometimes shocks me, or amuses me, or at times . . . irritates me.