Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and RememberingHMH, 8 mai 2003 - 256 pagini A New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year: A look at the pleasures and surprises of rereading. Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal—it involves a complex interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor and humor, this “inspired intellectual romp, part memoir, part criticism” takes us on a guided tour of the author’s own return to books she once knew—from the plays of Shakespeare to twentieth-century novels by Kingsley Amis and Ian McEwan, from the childhood favorite I Capture the Castle to classic novels such as Anna Karenina and Huckleberry Finn, from nonfiction by Henry Adams to poetry by Wordsworth—as she reflects on how the passage of time and the experience of aging has affected her perceptions of them (Lawrence Weschler). A cultural critic and the acclaimed author of Why I Read, Wendy Lesser conveys an infectious love of reading and inspires us all to take another look at the books we’ve read to find the unexpected treasures they might offer. “Delightful.” —Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce “Anyone who has ever approached a once favorite book later in life . . . will find in this memoir moments of bittersweet recognition.” —The New York Times Book Review “Reflect[s] deeply and candidly on how a reader’s life experiences alter her perceptions of literature . . . [Lesser] has truly fascinating and original things to say about a compelling assortment of writers, including George Orwell, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Dostoyevsky, and Shakespeare.” —Booklist |
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... narrators to the way Volume Two is essentially a commentary on, a rereading of, Volume One—suggests that Cervantes knew his characters would escape him in this way. It is this knowingness, combined with an unusually warm, informal kind ...
... narrators to the way Volume Two is essentially a commentary on, a rereading of, Volume One—suggests that Cervantes knew his characters would escape him in this way. It is this knowingness, combined with an unusually warm, informal kind ...
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... narrator Cid Hamete Benengeli—that they make "Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra" seem like one of his own fictional characters, even as they testify to the historical conditions under which he was allowed to make a living as a writer. And ...
... narrator Cid Hamete Benengeli—that they make "Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra" seem like one of his own fictional characters, even as they testify to the historical conditions under which he was allowed to make a living as a writer. And ...
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... narrator: "Here, Cid Hamete remarks, it is his personal opinion that the jesters were as crazy as their victims, and that the duke and duchess were not two fingers' breadth removed from being fools when they went to so much trouble to ...
... narrator: "Here, Cid Hamete remarks, it is his personal opinion that the jesters were as crazy as their victims, and that the duke and duchess were not two fingers' breadth removed from being fools when they went to so much trouble to ...
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... narrator attempted to rectify this problem by introducing a few irrelevant but diverting travelers' tales, but later he decided this had been a mistake, since "many readers, carried away by the interest attaching to the knight's ...
... narrator attempted to rectify this problem by introducing a few irrelevant but diverting travelers' tales, but later he decided this had been a mistake, since "many readers, carried away by the interest attaching to the knight's ...
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... narrator, the seventeenyear-old "I" who is capturing for our benefit the run-down old castle in which the impoverished Mortmains live. She is also an appealing figure in her own right: a combination of Elizabeth Bennet and Jane Eyre ...
... narrator, the seventeenyear-old "I" who is capturing for our benefit the run-down old castle in which the impoverished Mortmains live. She is also an appealing figure in her own right: a combination of Elizabeth Bennet and Jane Eyre ...
Cuprins
An Education | |
A Young Womans Mistakes | |
All Kinds of Madness | |
A Small Masterpiece | |
The Tree of Knowledge | |
McEwan inTime | |
The Strange Case of Huck and Jim | |
A Literary Career | |
Hitchcocks Vertigo | |
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Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering Wendy Lesser Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2003 |
Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering Wendy Lesser Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2002 |
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