We’re delighted to announce Reflex Press will be publishing An Approach to Black, a novella by Emily Jeremiah.
An Approach to Black explores fictional Finnish artist Anna S and her legacy. Anna married another artist, Eino S, in the late nineteenth century. Eino became famous for his idyllic evocations of family life. Anna, meanwhile, went mad. In present-day London, two people are driven to try and understand her: Jonathan, a young artist who is descended from Anna; and Emma, a retired academic who is writing a book about her. The work deals with female agency and creativity, as well as desire and madness.
An Approach to Black will be published in early 2021. Subscribe to our email newsletter for preorder information and subscriber discounts.
About the author
Emily Jeremiah holds an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and was awarded Arts Council funding to work on her debut novella, Blue Moments, which is forthcoming with Valley Press. A professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, she is the author of three academic books. She is also an award-winning translator of poetry and fiction. With her Finnish mother, Fleur Jeremiah, she has co-translated five novels, one of which, White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen (Peirene Press), was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016. She has translated two selections of poetry for Waterloo Press, and a volume of poems by Pentti Saarikoski, co-translated with Fleur Jeremiah, is due out in 2020 (Norvik Press).
