Things I Don't Want to Know

A Response to George Orwell's 1946 Essay 'Why I Write'

Autor*innen

• Deborah Levy

Parameter

• 108 Seiten
• 4 Lesestunden

• Autobiografien und Memoiren
• Biografien
• Meinungsjournalismus
• Sachbücher
• Wahre Geschichten

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'In her powerful rejoinder to Orwell, Deborah Levy responds to his proposed motives for writing -- 'sheer egoism', 'aesthetic enthusiasm', 'historical impulse' and 'political purpose' -- with illuminating moments of autobiography. A vivid, striking account of a writer's life, which feminises and personalises Orwell's blunt assertions' Spectator

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Einband: Paperback