Things i don't want to know: on writing

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Sinopse

Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay “Why I Write.” Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to hammer at his typewriter-political purpose, historical impulse, sheer egoism, and aesthetic enthusiasm-and Levy's newest work riffs on these same commitments from a female writer's perspective. As she struggles to balance womanhood, motherhood, and her writing career, Levy identifies some of the real-life experiences that have shaped her novels, including her family's emigration from South Africa in the era of apartheid; her teenage years in the UK where she played at being a writer in the company of builders and bus drivers in cheap diners; and her theater-writing days touring Poland in the midst of Eastern Europe's economic crisis, where she observed how a soldier tenderly kissed the women in his life goodbye.Spanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the author at seven, fifteen, and fifty), Things I Don't Want to Know brings the reader into a writer's heart.

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Autor: Deborah Levy

Autor

DEBORAH LEVY

Deborah Levy nasceu em Joanesburgo, África do Sul, em 1959. Seu pai, o historiador Norman Levy, um judeu de origem lituana e membro do partido social-democrata African National Congress, foi preso devido à sua atuação política antiapartheid. A autora tinha nove anos quando ele foi libertado, ainda em regime de prisão domiciliar, o que motivou a mudança da família para a Inglaterra. Estudou no extinto Dartington College of Arts até 1981, quando passou a escrever suas primeiras peças de teatro para a Royal Shakespeare Company. Em 1986, publicou Beautiful Mutants, primeiro dos seus seis romances, pelos quais recebeu diversos prêmios internacionais. Foi duas vezes finalista do Man Booker Prize, com Nadando de volta para casa e Hot Milk (2016), livros em que explora questões sobre identidade, exílio e deslocamento.