A MEMOIR OF MY FORMER SELF : A LIFE IN WRITING
Εκδότης John Murray , ISBN 9781399813891
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't
born, but I just came out of an ink blot.'
As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to
newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world
as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of
herself. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains. 'If you don't mean your words to breed
consequences, don't write at all.' A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this
writing over four decades.
Mantel's subjects are wide-ranging. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of
belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess
Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels - revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor
England - and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V. S. Naipaul. She writes about her
father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the
battles with her health she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found
herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is a selection of her film reviews - from When
Harry Met Sally to RoboCop - and, published for the first time, her stunning Reith Lectures,
which explore the process of art bringing history and the dead back to life.
From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fascination with Thomas C romwell that
grew into the Wolf Hall Trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary
Mantel's life in her own dazzling words, 'messages from people I used to be.' C ompelling,
often very funny, always luminous, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.
'A smart, deft, meticulous, thoughtful writer, with such a grasp of the dark and
spidery corners of human nature' Margaret Atwood
Περίληψη
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't
born, but I just came out of an ink blot.'
As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to
newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world
as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of
herself. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains. 'If you don't mean your words to breed
consequences, don't write at all.' A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this
writing over four decades.
Mantel's subjects are wide-ranging. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of
belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess
Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels - revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor
England - and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V. S. Naipaul. She writes about her
father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the
battles with her health she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found
herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is a selection of her film reviews - from When
Harry Met Sally to RoboCop - and, published for the first time, her stunning Reith Lectures,
which explore the process of art bringing history and the dead back to life.
From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fascination with Thomas C romwell that
grew into the Wolf Hall Trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary
Mantel's life in her own dazzling words, 'messages from people I used to be.' C ompelling,
often very funny, always luminous, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.
'A smart, deft, meticulous, thoughtful writer, with such a grasp of the dark and
spidery corners of human nature' Margaret Atwood
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Mantel, Hilary
- Eκδότης John Murray
- ISBN 9781399813891
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100082638
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2023
- Σελίδες 400
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 350 gr
