No Degrees of Separation

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 With her firm control over the act of writing, Noga Sklar produced in No Degrees of Separation something that is not an epistolary novel, nor poetic prose, nor fiction, nor a diary -- albeit it contains elements of all those -- while, at the same time, shamelessly exhibiting the autobiographical source that feeds it.


It might be the case to affirm that, with No Degrees of Separation, Noga has written the post-post-modern version of Solomon's Song of Songs. As in that ancient text, one of the very first in erotic literature, Noga follows the delicate thread that unites the written word to eroticism. By alternating the voices of the two passionate lovers (Noga and Alan) in a dialogue that draws them near and intertwines them, but without ever confusing them (they never cease to mingle with each other, while successfully remaining themselves, a man and a woman, Noga and Alan, incessantly hungry for each other) she shows us how eroticism and the written word fertilize each other and are made consubstantial.

About the author

Noga Sklar was born in Tiberias, Israel, in 1952. She grew up in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, and lived for 30 years in Rio de Janeiro, a city she left behind to take refuge with her husband Alan in a paradise among the mountains of Petropolis. Despite the many moves and the growing universality of her themes, she remains a writer from Minas Gerais.She met her husband Alan Sklar on the Internet in 2004, through the American Jewish dating site JDate. This meeting gave new impetus to her life and literary career. Based on their actual interactions online and the e-mails the couple exchanged, she wrote her novel No Degrees of Separation (KBR, 2016). In addition to a strong sexual content, the book also has a remarkable Jewish component, having been dubbed by the writer and psychoanalyst Ana Cecilia Carvalho a modern "Song of Songs."

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