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INTIMATIONS-SIX ESSAYS

Smith, Zadie

Εκδότης Hamish Hamilton , ISBN 9780241492383

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our timeFrom the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more'There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those. What I've tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed.

These are, above all, personal essays: small by definition, short by necessity. Early on in the crisis, I picked up Marcus Aurelius and for the first time in my life read his Meditations not as an academic exercise, nor in pursuit of pleasure, but with the same attitude I bring to the instructions for a flat-pack table - I was in need of practical assistance. I am no more a Stoic now than I was when I opened that ancient book, but I did come out with two invaluable intimations.

Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.'Crafted with the sharp intelligence, wit and style that have won Zadie Smith millions of fans, and suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these unprecedented times, Intimations is a vital work of art, a gesture of connection and an act of love - an essential book in extraordinary times.

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Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our timeFrom the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more'There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those. What I've tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed.

These are, above all, personal essays: small by definition, short by necessity. Early on in the crisis, I picked up Marcus Aurelius and for the first time in my life read his Meditations not as an academic exercise, nor in pursuit of pleasure, but with the same attitude I bring to the instructions for a flat-pack table - I was in need of practical assistance. I am no more a Stoic now than I was when I opened that ancient book, but I did come out with two invaluable intimations.

Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.'Crafted with the sharp intelligence, wit and style that have won Zadie Smith millions of fans, and suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these unprecedented times, Intimations is a vital work of art, a gesture of connection and an act of love - an essential book in extraordinary times.

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας Smith, Zadie
  • Eκδότης Hamish Hamilton
  • ISBN 9780241492383
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100072700
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2020
  • Σελίδες 96
  • Διαστάσεις
  • Βάρος 350 gr

Smith, Zadie

Συγγραφέας

H Zadie Smith γεννήθηκε το 1975 στο Λονδίνο όπου και ζει μέχρι σήμερα. Σπούδασε αγγλική φιλολογία στο Κέμπριτζ. Το 2003 συμπεριλήφθηκε στη λίστα των 20 καλύτερων νέων συγγραφέων του περίβλεπτου λογοτεχνικού περιοδικού Granta. Το πρώτο της μυθιστόρημα, "Λευκό χαμόγελο σε μαύρο φόντο" τιμήθηκε με τα βραβεία Guardian for first book, Whitbread First Novel, Whitbread Book of the Year, James Tait Black Memorial, British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, Frankfurt eBook Award και Commonwealth Writer's First Book ενώ και το δεύτερο της βιβλίο, "Συλλέκτης αυτογράφων", δεν πέρασε απαρατήρητο. Τιμήθηκε με το βραβείο Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction, ενώ ήταν υποψήφιο για τα βραβεία Orange και Booker. Το "Στην ομορφιά που χάνεται" είναι το αποτέλεσμα των προσπαθειών και της συγγραφικής ωριμότητάς της αφού τιμήθηκε το 2006 με τα βραβεία Orange, Somerset Maugham και Commonwealth Writers' Regional Award ενώ ήταν υποψήφιο για τα βραβεία Booker και IMPAC. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty and NW, as well as The Embassy of Cambodia and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beautywas shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and lives in London and New York with her husband and two children.

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