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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... look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: there is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination calls for. Shrunk how? Why, to its correct dimensions: the house hasn't altered, this ...
... look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: there is no instance of such a house being as big as the picture in memory and imagination calls for. Shrunk how? Why, to its correct dimensions: the house hasn't altered, this ...
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... look in that novel or poem or essay, you will find a little reflected face peering out at you—the face of your own youthful self, the original reader, the person you were when you first read the book. So the material that wells up out ...
... look in that novel or poem or essay, you will find a little reflected face peering out at you—the face of your own youthful self, the original reader, the person you were when you first read the book. So the material that wells up out ...
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... look. It would be tedious to have a series of chapters recording how disappointing it was to reread this or that favorite work of science fiction or adventure or humor or romance (not that these categories would inevitably prove ...
... look. It would be tedious to have a series of chapters recording how disappointing it was to reread this or that favorite work of science fiction or adventure or humor or romance (not that these categories would inevitably prove ...
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... look at a still work of literature from a moving position—that is, from two different points in time. And this vertiginousness seems to be linked, in turn, to our directional sense of time's passage, to the poignancy of the fact that ...
... look at a still work of literature from a moving position—that is, from two different points in time. And this vertiginousness seems to be linked, in turn, to our directional sense of time's passage, to the poignancy of the fact that ...
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... look, and finds that he is surrounded by hanged men—legally strung-up criminals—whose bodies have been left dangling from the trees. And then later, when the knight and his squire reach Barcelona, they are invited to witness the ...
... look, and finds that he is surrounded by hanged men—legally strung-up criminals—whose bodies have been left dangling from the trees. And then later, when the knight and his squire reach Barcelona, they are invited to witness the ...
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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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