South and West
Autor Joan Didionen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mar 2017
De la autoarea cărții The Year of Magical Thinking vin și pasaje extinse din jurnalul ei nepublicat. Scrierile acestea oferă o privire revelatoare asupra procesului de creație al unei scriitoare legendare.
Joan Didion a păstrat dintotdeauna jurnale: frânturi de dialoguri, observații, interviuri, draft-uri de eseuri și articole, iar aici regăsim un draft al unei călătorii pe care Didion a întreprins-o împreună cu soțul ei, Jon Gregory Dunne, în vara anului 1970 prin Louisiana, Mississippi și Alabama.
Didion pune întrebări proeminentelor personaje locale, descrie moteluri, restaurante, o fermă de reptile părăsită, o vizită la Walker Percy, un brunch pentru doamne la Mississippi Broadcasters Convention.
Ea vorbește despre căldura sufocantă, ritmul în care oamenii din aceste locuri își duc viețile, lumina sulfuroasă și preocuparea pentru rasă, statut social și moștenire pe care o descoperă în micile orășele pe care le vizitează.
După Sud urmează Vest în jurnalul intitulat California Notes în care Didion reflectează la peisajele spectaculoase, femeile vestice și toată inspirația pe care a adunat-o pentru a scrie apreciata care lansată în 2003, Where I Was From.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1524732796
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 124 x 191 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
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Editura: Knopf Publishing Group
Colecția Alfred A. Knopf
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Descriere
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Harper’s Bazaar
Joan Didion has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. South and West gives us two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape.
“Notes on the South” traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. “California Notes” began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion’s signature irony and imagination in play, we’re also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process.
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Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles--and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. She interviews prominent local figures, describes motels, diners, a deserted reptile farm, a visit with Walker Percy, a ladies' brunch at the Mississippi Broadcasters' Convention. She writes about the stifling heat, the almost viscous pace of life, the sulfurous light, and the preoccupation with race, class, and heritage she finds in the small towns they pass through. And from a different notebook: the "California Notes" that began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial of 1976. Though Didion never wrote the piece, watching the trial and being in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the city, its social hierarchy, the Hearsts, and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here, too, is the beginning of her thinking about the West, its landscape, the western women who were heroic for her, and her own lineage, all of which would appear later in her acclaimed 2003 book, Where I Was From.
One of TIME s most anticipated books of 2017
One of The New York Times Book Review's What You ll Be Reading in 2017
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