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We need silence to find out what we think : selected essays /
Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s contribute to a keener understanding of postwar letters, thought, and politics, supported by an introduction that situates Hazzard's writing within its historical context and emphasizes her influence on world literatur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Shirley Hazzard-Author, Amateur, Intellectual, by Brigitta Olubas; Part I. Through Literature Itself; We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think; The Lonely Word; Part II. The Expressive Word; A Mind Like a Blade: Review of Muriel Spark, Collected Stories I and The Public Image; Review of Jean Rhys, Quartet; The Lasting Sickness of Naples: Review of Matilde Serao, Il Ventre di Napoli; The New Novel by the New Nobel Prize Winner: Review of Patrick White, The Eye of the Storm.
- Ordinary People: Review of Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn and Excellent WomenTranslating Proust; Introduction to Geoffrey Scott's The Portrait of Zélide; Introduction to Iris Origo's Leopardi: A Study in Solitude; William Maxwell; Part III. Public Themes; The Patron Saint of the UN is Pontius Pilate; "Gulag" and the Men of Peace; The United Nations: Where Governments Go to Church; The League of Frightened Men: Why the UN is So Useless; UNhelpful: Waldheim's Latest Debacle; A Writer's Reflections on the Nuclear Age; Part IV. The Great Occasion; Canton More Far; Papyrology at Naples.
- The Tuscan in Each of UsPart V. Last Words; 2003 National Book Award Acceptance; The New York Society Library Discussion, September 2012; Notes; Index.