A Conversation With David Ebershoff.
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The following quotation is from the novel, The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff: it appears in the notes at the back, entitled a conversation with David Ebershoff.
How did writing this book affect your views on the choices of the transgendered?
'Writing the novel gave me a new understanding of courage. And seventy years after Lili Elbe made her historically courageous decision, it still requires nearly super-human courage to decide to proceed with a sex change. This is changing, gradually, slowly. It requires a faith that you can turn your world on its head and yet still emerge with a sense of yourself intact. How many of us are strong enough to something like that?'
I think I like Mr Ebershoff, and I'm looking forward to reading his novel which I've just acquired. It's a fictionalised account of the relationship between the first post operative transsexual of the modern age, Einar Wegener who became Lili Elbe, and his wife (Gerda)Greta.
Angharad.