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We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think - Selected Essays (Paperback)
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We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think - Selected Essays (Paperback)
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List price R559
Loot Price R470
Discovery Miles 4 700
You Save R89 (16%)
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Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase
Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics,
international relations, the history and fraught present of Western
literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add
essential clarity to the themes that dominate her award-winning
fiction and expand the intellectual registers in which her writings
work. Hazzard writes about her employment at the United Nations and
the institution's manifold failings. She shares her personal
experience with the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bombing and
the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. She speaks to the
decline of the hero as a public figure in Western literature and
affirms the ongoing power of fiction to console, inspire, and
direct human life, despite-or maybe because of-the world's
disheartening realities. Cementing Hazzard's place as one of the
twentieth century's sharpest and most versatile thinkers, this
collection also encapsulates for readers the critical events
defining postwar letters, thought, and politics.
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