Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and RememberingHMH, 8. 5. 2003 - 256 strán (strany) 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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... finally decided, for readers to hear me yammering on against Freud's authoritarianism—after all, this is hardly news—and it would be even more unpleasant for me to do the reading and writing involved in constructing such a chapter ...
... finally decided, for readers to hear me yammering on against Freud's authoritarianism—after all, this is hardly news—and it would be even more unpleasant for me to do the reading and writing involved in constructing such a chapter ...
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... finally, between truth and fiction; that would be the pusillanimous way out, and Cervantes has no desire to take it. On the contrary, the whole point of the deluded knight's crazy adventures hinges on the difference. But making the ...
... finally, between truth and fiction; that would be the pusillanimous way out, and Cervantes has no desire to take it. On the contrary, the whole point of the deluded knight's crazy adventures hinges on the difference. But making the ...
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... finally the royal privilege to publish, issued by the king himself. In the case of Don Quixote, these sound so much like narrative artifacts—like the layers of storytelling at the front of a Conrad novel, for instance, or like Cervantes ...
... finally the royal privilege to publish, issued by the king himself. In the case of Don Quixote, these sound so much like narrative artifacts—like the layers of storytelling at the front of a Conrad novel, for instance, or like Cervantes ...
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... finally unsatisfying explanation for the disappearance and reappearance of his stolen donkey, refuses to be placated. "That is not where the error lies," replied Sanson, "but rather in the fact that before the ass turns up again the ...
... finally unsatisfying explanation for the disappearance and reappearance of his stolen donkey, refuses to be placated. "That is not where the error lies," replied Sanson, "but rather in the fact that before the ass turns up again the ...
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... finally get. The division between those with a sense of entitlement and those without can substitute, in the adolescent world, for class structure. That's why, at thirteen, I didn't need the concept of class to understand Lucky Jim. In ...
... finally get. The division between those with a sense of entitlement and those without can substitute, in the adolescent world, for class structure. That's why, at thirteen, I didn't need the concept of class to understand Lucky Jim. In ...
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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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