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Cargando... Blue Nights (edición 2012)por Joan Didion (Autor)
Información de la obraBlue Nights por Joan Didion
   Books Read in 2017 (2,435) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |   ) Mikael.Linder | Jun 9, 2023 |  ) FormerEnglishTeacher | Jan 24, 2022 | Perhaps I should also mention that I chose this as something light to read while sitting in a hospital waiting room? So not only was my timing off. Given the timing, it feels uncharitable to say so, but from the beginning, this book felt like a slim addendum to her Year of Magical Thinking, a powerful book. The writing is beautiful, although her repetition of sentences that act as leitmotifs, which was evocative, even mesmerizing for a while, began to wear on me. Even more irritating to me was Didion’s penchant for name-dropping. In a way, fair enough: she and her husband were bright stars in the literary firmament of both Hollywood and New York, so these people were a part of their social life, even their circle of friends (not always the same thing). But brand-name dropping? Christian Louboutin, Chanel, David Webb. Perhaps I feel left out because these evoke no pictures in me, as if I’m not the person Didion wrote this for. I nearly gave up on the book when she listed the hotels she, her husband, and her daughter stayed in. Then adds, when they were on expenses; then she named a hotel they stayed in when they had to pay the bill. I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt and reckoned with the possibility that she was aware of how this sounded. And perhaps that this is part of the message of the book. No matter how well-padded your expense account, or even if you land in Columbia Presbyterian rather than Lenox Hill hospital, the time comes when you realize that medicine is, as Didion writes, “an imperfect art.” And even when that art is practiced flawlessly, we remain mortal. ( ) HenrySt123 | Jan 13, 2022 |  ) Octavia78 | Nov 28, 2021 |
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"Durante las noches azules uno piensa que el da no se va a acabar nunca. A medida que las noches azules se acercan a su fin (y lo hacen, lo hacen siempre) uno experimenta un escalofro literal, una visin de enfermedad, en el mismo momento de darse cuenta: la luz azul se est yendo, los das ya se estn acortando, el verano se ha ido. Este libro se titula" Noches azules "porque en la poca en que lo empec a escribir sorprend a mi mente volvindose cada vez ms hacia la enfermedad, hacia la muerte de las promesas, el acortamiento de los das, lo inevitable del apagamiento, la muerte de la luz. Las noches azules son lo contrario de la muerte de la luz, pero al mismo tiempo son su premonicin." En su celebrado libro El ao del pensamiento mgico, Joan Didion contemplaba cmo los rituales que formaban parte de su vida cotidiana cambiaban drsticamente con la sbita muerte de su marido en 2003. Dos aos despus su nica hija, Quintana Roo, mora a los treinta y nueve aos de edad. En su nueva obra, Noches azules, Joan Didion hilvana instantneas literarias y recuerdos olvidados sobre la vida y la muerte de su hija. Noches azules versa de lo que queda tras la prdida de un ser querido.
In this memoir, the author shares her observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent. It opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood, in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were missed or perhaps displaced. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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