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Heroines
Биографии и мемуары, Публицистика

Heroines

Автор: Zambreno Kate
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag order-pretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging...
The Two Kinds of Decay
Биографии и мемуары, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

The Two Kinds of Decay

Автор: Мангузо Сара
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time,...
The Chronology of Water
Биографии и мемуары, Современная русская и зарубежная проза

The Chronology of Water

Автор: Yuknavitch Lidia
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that...
Radio Benjamin
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Radio Benjamin

Автор: Benjamin Walter
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to ’33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of...
What to Look for in Winter
Биографии и мемуары

What to Look for in Winter

Автор: McWilliam Candia
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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"The most startling, discomforting, complicated, ungovernable, hilarious, and heartrending of memoirs" (The Telegraph, london) — the story of a celebrated writer's sudden descent into blindness, and the redemptive journey into the past that her...