Am I a Redundant Human Being? Portugal Kenner claims

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and the critic James Wood wrote

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which blend accounts of youthful mischief with casual references to Cervantes and Laurence Sterne

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Am I a Redundant Human Being? Portugal Kenner claimsFor the first time in English, a contemporary and friend of Virginia Woolf and Stefan Zweig gives us the definitive portrait of a woman lost on the margins of modern life. Aloisia Schmidt is an ordinary secretary with a burning question: am I a redundant human being? She's neither pretty nor ugly (though she wishes she were hideous: at least that would be something), has no imagination, and is forced to live vicariously through "borrowed"