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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... agitations it originally produced inus. Our old—that is our young—feelings are very nearly what page after page most gives us. — HENRY JAMES, "Honore de Balzac," 1902 People pretend that the Bible means the same to them Epigraph.
... agitations it originally produced inus. Our old—that is our young—feelings are very nearly what page after page most gives us. — HENRY JAMES, "Honore de Balzac," 1902 People pretend that the Bible means the same to them Epigraph.
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... Young Woman's Mistakes" chapter was both sympathetic and corrective; Gary Wolf, whose comments and questions helped me wrestle with the Henry Adams material; Simone DiPiero, who sent me back to Shakespeare; Thorn Gunn, with whom I ...
... Young Woman's Mistakes" chapter was both sympathetic and corrective; Gary Wolf, whose comments and questions helped me wrestle with the Henry Adams material; Simone DiPiero, who sent me back to Shakespeare; Thorn Gunn, with whom I ...
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... young person, I only wanted her to marry the lord and get it over with. Now I understood that nothing ends with such choices—there are always additional choices to be made, if one's life is to remain interesting. I cared less, this time ...
... young person, I only wanted her to marry the lord and get it over with. Now I understood that nothing ends with such choices—there are always additional choices to be made, if one's life is to remain interesting. I cared less, this time ...
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... young"; in other words, I needed to be coming at the work anew as an altered, older self. I had to remember the first reading well enough to draw the comparison—viscerally remember it, not just remember that I had done it. And I had to ...
... young"; in other words, I needed to be coming at the work anew as an altered, older self. I had to remember the first reading well enough to draw the comparison—viscerally remember it, not just remember that I had done it. And I had to ...
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... young for a first reading, but Pierre Menard, too, started early: "When I was ten or twelve years old, I read it..." So it should not be surprising that I, when I first read Don Quixote, was eleven. Still, it does surprise me. What did ...
... young for a first reading, but Pierre Menard, too, started early: "When I was ten or twelve years old, I read it..." So it should not be surprising that I, when I first read Don Quixote, was eleven. Still, it does surprise me. What did ...
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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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Spine | |
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