![]() In 1992, Lucca herself had been instructed by X to discourage Theodore Smith, an interested biographer. Lucca calls her shame well-earned because she knows X thought being written about biographically was an insult to the way she’d chosen to live. ‘I cannot explain my wife or myself for even a moment longer and I confess all this now, full of well-earned shame that I should have known better than to have even tried to explain even a minute of her life,’ Lucca thinks as she runs out of the installation her wife was working on when she died. ![]() ![]() Lucca is also the author of a book called Biography of X, as well as being the widow of the polymathic artist called X (1945-96) who is its subject, a mercurial female genius who wrote novels, produced music and made art of various kinds, her career capped by a MoMA retrospective. Lucca, the writer created by Catherine Lacey to narrate her fourth novel, Biography of X, at least has the guts to admit the problem. Have you ever tried to write down the thoughts, the emotions, the memories that bubble up in a person over sixty seconds where she is what she’s wearing what she can smell, taste and hear who she’s with what she’s saying not to mention what contribution this 0.069 per cent of a day is making to the meaning of her life? C.M. T he problem with biography is that it’s impossible. ![]()
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