evokes, to my English-speaking ear, the biblical fruit whose consumption leads to shame and expulsion from Paradise.Eve's story is not irrelevant to a novel like Alba de Céspedes's Forbidden Notebook, in which a woman succumbs to a temptation: to record her thoughts and observations.Valeria Cossati's impulse to keep a diary leads not so much to the knowledge of good and evil as it does to the self-knowledge advocated by Socrates and serving as a cornerstone of philosophical inquiry ever since.
#people #back #years #essentially #introduction #publication #observations #consumption #womens-rights #short-stories
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