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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write
An Autobiography Through Essays
Taschenbuch von Claire Messud
Sprache: Englisch

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'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You

In twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Claire Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again 'an absolute master storyteller' (Rebecca Carroll, Los Angeles Times).

'Messud's essays are generous visions of the world, informed by her razor-sharp intellect and uncompromising honesty' Maaza Mengiste, Observer

'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You

In twenty-nine intimate, brilliant and funny essays, Claire Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again 'an absolute master storyteller' (Rebecca Carroll, Los Angeles Times).

'Messud's essays are generous visions of the world, informed by her razor-sharp intellect and uncompromising honesty' Maaza Mengiste, Observer

Über den Autor
Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author of five other works of fiction including, most recently, The Burning Girl, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780349726564
ISBN-10: 0349726566
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Messud, Claire
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 126 x 196 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Claire Messud
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,258 kg
Artikel-ID: 119374223
Über den Autor
Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The author of five other works of fiction including, most recently, The Burning Girl, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780349726564
ISBN-10: 0349726566
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Messud, Claire
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 126 x 196 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Claire Messud
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,258 kg
Artikel-ID: 119374223
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