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Bezig met laden... Everywhere I Lookdoor Helen Garner
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) featherbooks | May 7, 2024 |  But everybody knows that love is brutal. A thousand songs tell the story. Love tears right through the centre of us, into our secret self, it lays it wide open. Surely Sigmund Freud was right when he said, 'We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.' p.146When I finished these essays, I felt grateful to have Helen Garner as a commentator and intellectual guide on so much that is familiar to me. Not only with inner Melbourne (and Sydney) but also with the films and books she writes so eloquently about. That said, I'm certainly going to find a copy of Janet Malcolm’s [b:Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers|16059462|Forty-One False Starts Essays on Artists and Writers|Janet Malcolm|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1376835501l/16059462._SX50_.jpg|21858277] You feel the intense pleasure she gets from thinking. She keeps coming at things from the most unexpected angles, undercutting the certainty she has just reasoned you into accepting, and dropping you through the floor into a realm of fruitful astonishment, and sometimes laughter. p.182 ...in the end, the only thing people have got going for them is imagination. At times of great darkness everything around us becomes symbolic, poetic, archetypal. Perhaps that is what dreaming, and art, are for. p. 152(  ) simonpockley | Feb 25, 2024 | ) Afriendlyhorse | Sep 20, 2023 | )1  crimson-tide | Sep 16, 2020 | ‘he spoke with a gracious simplicity and with an impressive mastery of the Pause’ ‘Gaita is a small, agile fellow, a rock climber from way back. Up he goes, smooth as a lizard. He leans down to me.’ ‘I set out to write about my mother, but already I am talking about my father. He is easy to write about. He was a vivid, obstreperous character who's jolting behaviour was a spectacle, an endurance test that united his children in opposition to him. Things he did or fail to do gave rise to hundreds of stories that we still share and embellish.’ In one chapter ‘The Singular Rosie’ she sensitively tells about her meeting and interviewing Rosie Batty, whose son, Luke, was murdered by his father. Very well reported. An excellent book. Easy and pleasing to read. ( ) GeoffSC | Jul 25, 2020 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there's a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring. Helen Garner is one of Australia's greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range. Spanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden shafts of light, piercing intuition, flashes of anger and incidental humour. It takes us from backstage at the ballet to the trial of a woman for the murder of her newborn baby. It moves effortlessly from the significance of moving house to the pleasure of re-reading Pride and Prejudice. Everywhere I Look includes Garner's famous and controversial essay on the insults of age, her deeply moving tribute to her mother and extracts from her diaries, which have been part of her working life for as long as she has been a writer. Everywhere I Look glows with insight. It is filled with the wisdom of life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)828.91409Literature English English miscellaneous writings English miscellaneous writings 1900- English miscellaneous writings 1900-1999 English miscellaneous writings 1945-1999 Individual authorsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (4.21)
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