Superposition

by Magdalena Skoczewska

Manuscript, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

MANUSCRIPT SKOCZEWSKA, M.

Collection

Publication

A Final Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Diploma Program and Master of Arts in Process Work, Process Work Institute, Portland, OR

Local notes

http://www.processwork.org/files/Finalprojects/Skoczewska_M_2010.pdf

ABSTRACT
This novel follows the fate of a few characters that meet in a fictional country, which has started to implement regulations that are discrepant with human rights. The main character in the story is a famous painter, who, unconscious of the drastic changes in the country she is traveling to, visits her best friend and becomes immersed in an unexpected and difficult chain of events. The central theme of the story plays out the conflict between being alone vs. being in relationship and between individualism and collectivism. In the beginning, the main character marginalizes the signs indicating the country’s troubled climate, but after a while they become unavoidable. Just when the painter starts to understand how serious the situation is, her friend commits suicide. After this dramatic event, the main character goes into deep states of sorrow, emotional pain, and grieving. In the meantime, she receives an invitation to a party at the Presidents Palace, and a few days later she comes out from her room with a plan in mind. She meets the president of the country, and then uses her connection with him to unmask his miserable politics at an international press conference. In addition to fulfilling her plan, meeting the president also brings forth some unexpected feelings between the artist and the president. They end up falling in love with each other, and the president starts to understand that the people of his nation need to have the option of being alone, and he also realizes that this is his own personal need as well. The main character returns to her home country with the piece of mind of knowing that she helped in a change the course of that country’s development. In the end, the painter’s eyes are filled with tears as she remembers her best friend, and her heart is broken because she cannot be with the person she fell in love with.

Barcode

SKO001
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