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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... A Director Calls The Amateur Nothing Remains theSame Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography (editor) NOTHING REMAINS THE SAME "Convinced that literature matters as much Front Matter BOOKS BY WENDY LESSER.
... A Director Calls The Amateur Nothing Remains theSame Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography (editor) NOTHING REMAINS THE SAME "Convinced that literature matters as much Front Matter BOOKS BY WENDY LESSER.
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Rereading and Remembering Wendy Lesser. NOTHING. REMAINS. THE. SAME. "Convinced that literature matters as much for what it does to us as for what it unprovably simply is, [Wendy Lesser] is the perfect broker between the claims of page and ...
Rereading and Remembering Wendy Lesser. NOTHING. REMAINS. THE. SAME. "Convinced that literature matters as much for what it does to us as for what it unprovably simply is, [Wendy Lesser] is the perfect broker between the claims of page and ...
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... matter more than the arrival, and it is only in this frame of mind that you can do justice to Henry James. (I say this now, but just watch me: I'll be contradicting myself from the old-age home, deploring my 1 Reflections.
... matter more than the arrival, and it is only in this frame of mind that you can do justice to Henry James. (I say this now, but just watch me: I'll be contradicting myself from the old-age home, deploring my 1 Reflections.
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... matter; what I remember are the tears that stung my eyes when Sancho Panza stood by his master's bedside and pleaded with him not to die, but to go back out into the fields with him ("Who knows but behind some bush we may come upon the ...
... matter; what I remember are the tears that stung my eyes when Sancho Panza stood by his master's bedside and pleaded with him not to die, but to go back out into the fields with him ("Who knows but behind some bush we may come upon the ...
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... matters surprisingly little, since "influence" seems a puny force compared to the one exerted by Don Quixote. The novel displays such an astonishing ability to anticipate its own future that one is almost tempted to give Cervantes ...
... matters surprisingly little, since "influence" seems a puny force compared to the one exerted by Don Quixote. The novel displays such an astonishing ability to anticipate its own future that one is almost tempted to give Cervantes ...
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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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