ID: 8690  -  Cinzia Biagiotti  -  Pisa Type: Text Format: Medium: Essay Extent: Identifier: Source: Title: Requa Subtitle: Alternative: Requa I Agents: Creator: Role: Author Name: Olsen, Tillie Created: Date: Issued in/on: 1970 Language: English Rights: Olsen, Tillie Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Iowa Review, 1 Summer, pp. 54-74. Coverage: Place: Klamath, California Time: 1930s Description: short story about the struggle against economic collapse, and the emotional depression of the 14 years old protagonist. Subjects: Displacement Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Class Subjects: Internationalism/Transnationalism Keywords: death Keywords: adolescence Keywords: motherhood Keywords: socialism Keywords: Marxism Query Subject+Keyword: (Displacement, death) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, adolescence) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, motherhood) Query Subject+Keyword: (Class, socialism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Internationalism/Transnationalism, Marxism) Comment: Reprinted as Requa I in: Foley, Martha and Burnett, David (eds.), The Best American Short Stories, 1971, Boston, Houghton, 1971, pp.237-265. Published as a short story, it was supposed to be the first section of a novel never completed. The central theme is: the secret of recovery prevails against depression. She suggested that creating a new purpose for discarded or broken objects and things, new meaning and continuity are given to human existence as well.