<p><span>A shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, to publish alongside her new work of nonfiction, </span><span>The Cost of Living</span><span>.</span><span><br><br>Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a
Things I Don't Want to Know
β Scribed by Deborah Levy
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work over time to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December.' Deborah Levy..M.F
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<DIV>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 Levyβs witty response to George Orwellβs influential essay βWhy I Write.β Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to ha
xxii, 310 pages : 21 cm