Between a rock and no place

Ursula Meier's Home (2008)

Conn Holohan

pp. 177-190

in: Bill Richardson (ed), Spatiality and symbolic expression, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Abstract

Home as a place does not exist […] The concept home refers to an impossible place, a utopia—but also to an extimate place, […] a symbolic fiction that makes one’s actual place of habitation bearable.1