Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write
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2013
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9781907903632
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2013-01-01
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Notting Hill Editions
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250 gr
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190 mm
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120 mm
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14 mm
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G, 01
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Engelsk
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Biographical note
Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts, leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination". She wrote and published her first novel Beautiful Mutants, when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. Her recent novel, Swimming Home, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. Levy has just published Black Vodka: Ten Stories with And Other Stories.'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression.' Jeanette Winterson
Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life, this is a perfect companion not just to Orwell's essay, but also to Levy's own, essential oeuvre.
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'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work over time to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December.' Deborah Levy
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781907903632
Publisert
2013-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Notting Hill Editions
Vekt
250 gr
Høyde
190 mm
Bredde
120 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
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