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Cargando... The Cost of Living (2018)por Deborah Levy
  
Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) featherbooks | May 7, 2024 |   ) simonpockley | Feb 25, 2024 | Review of the Hamish Hamilton hardcover edition (August 21, 2018) of the Bloomsbury Publishing hardcover original (July 10, 2018), with reference to the Hamish Hamilton Kindle eBook. I had energy because I had no choice but to have energy. I had to write to support my children and I had to do all the heavy lifting. Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs. The Cost of Living carries on with Deborah Levy's memoirs as the follow-up to the 1st volume Things I Don't Want to Know (2013). A further follow-up is the 3rd volume Real Estate (2020), currently the last in the series. Levy describes them as "living autobiographies," as they are "hopefully not being written at the end, with hindsight, but in the storm of life." The current book looks back on a time after Levy's divorce, when she had to support 2 children with her writing. The situation at home was too distracting, so she managed to obtain the use of a friend's garden shed as "a room of her own" in which to write. During this time she also had to deal with the death of her mother. The book continues with her various musings about "why she writes". Most of my favourite quotes are excerpted above in the introduction. As mentioned previously, I especially enjoy books about books and writing, so Levy's memoirs are particularly enjoyable for me. I look forward to completing the current trilogy, but I hope that further memoirs may yet follow. Trivia and Link Deborah Levy's "living autobiographies" are written in reaction to George Orwell's Why I Write (1946). (  ) alanteder | Oct 20, 2023 | "If we don't have names, who are we?" ( ) cbwalsh | Sep 13, 2023 | ) Ellen-Simon | Mar 1, 2023 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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¿Qué quiere decir ser libre como mujer o como artista? ¿Y cuál es el precio de esta libertad? El coste de vivir es la segunda parte de la poderosa «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy. Deborah Levy empieza a escribir este libro cuando, con cincuenta años, se ve forzada a reinventarse: su matrimonio ha terminado, sus ingresos escasean, su madre se está muriendo y sus hijas empiezan a abandonar el nido. En un momento en que la vida tendría que volverse plácida e imperturbable, Levy decide abrazar el caos y la inestabilidad a cambio de recuperar, oculto bajo capas y capas de resignación, un nombre propio. A través de un diálogo con intelectuales como Marguerite Duras o Simone de Beauvoir, y mediante recuerdos que evoca con elocuencia, sensibilidad y un delicioso sentido del humor, Levy se pregunta cuál es ese papel ficticio escrito por hombres e interpretado por mujeres al que llamamos «feminidad». Cualquiera que haya luchado por ser libre y por construir una vida propia sabe que es precisamente eso: una lucha constante en la que se paga un coste por vivir. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The bestselling modern manifesto on the politics of womanhood from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. A New York Times Notable Book A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 ¿What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage? This vibrant memoir, a portrait of contemporary womanhood in flux, is an urgent quest to find an unwritten major female character who can exist more easily in the world. Levy considers what it means to live with meaning, value, and pleasure, to seize the ultimate freedom of writing our own lives, and reflects on the work of such artists and thinkers as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch, and Emily Dickinson. The Cost of Living, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction, is crucial testimony, as distinctive, witty, complex, and original as Levy's acclaimed novels. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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