Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.
Bezig met laden... A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries (1984)door Thomas Mallon
Bezig met laden...
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. At the outset, I felt as though I had really hit on something inspirational and there were definitely "pull quotes" I captured. The middle part - especially the chapter called "Apologists" felt strained and overly academic. Could be be and a lack of receptivity. I also found that when the author drifted back in time that I was less interested than vignettes from the 1800s forward. Not sure why. ( ) For a reader who is considering or curious about reading diaries or a reader who knows already they love them, this is a perfect read. Mallon divides diarists into seven categories: chroniclers, travelers, pilgrims, creators, apologists, confessors, and prisoners and then proceeds for a few pages to pick out some salient features, a quote or two, before moving on to the next diary. He covers a lot of ground. His purpose isn't to tell you the whole story of a person, but just to give you a taste, so you will be left wondering, in some cases, what happened to that person, but the obvious answer is to go find out for yourself! I've read quite a few journals as it turns out, Boswell, Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, some Nin, to name a few. Of course, many journals stray into almost all of these categories, I know mine does, sometimes its just a depository of ideas for what I'm writing, sometimes I'm describing something in detail because it might be of interest many years from now, sometimes I'm trying to figure out an emotional problem, and so on. A fine quote within a quote from the intro: "J.M. Barrie once wrote that the "life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another . . " Another enjoyable facet was that Mallon includes mention of some diaries of fictional characters. It took me a long time to read as this sort of book does, I could only read about a few diarists at a time. I should add, this volume represents an incredible amount of work!**** geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Erelijsten
An investigation into the art and history of diary writing as well as a guide to the great diaries and private chronicles of the famous, the infamous, and the anonymous. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)809Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literaturesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |