|
Showing 1 - 2 of
2 matches in All Departments
|
Diaries
Maria Gabriela Llansol; Translated by Audrey Young
|
R530
R452
Discovery Miles 4 520
Save R78 (15%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
A remarkable collection of diary entries from cross-genre
Portuguese author Maria Gabriela Llansol, which span dozens of
diaries and 33 years. "She dedicated herself to this work
regularly, at the same time, in the same place, and in almost the
same position…” (The Book of Communities). Over the course of
her life, Maria Gabriela Llansol wrote many thousands of pages. She
left behind 70 diaries in all, which began in November 1974 and
continued until 2007. Three of them were published during her
lifetime. Diary I begins the day she finishes The Book of
Communities and ends the day she finishes The Remaining Life, in
1977. Diary II picks up two years later, when she is finishing In
the House of July and August and beginning the second trilogy. It
follows her through the second trilogy and captures her first ideas
for the Lisbonleipzig duology; it is here where Bach and Pessoa
begin their encounter, in 1982. Diary III is less a diary than a
mourning of the death of her friend, the Portuguese writer
Virgílio Ferreira, one of the only contemporary writers with whom
she felt any affinity. It is a mapping of their relationship and a
conversation between them.
"If anyone might be profitably compared to Clarice Lispector, it
might well be Maria Gabriela Llansol. This is because of the
fundamentally mystical impulse that animates them both, their
conception of writing as a sacred act, a prayer: their idea that it
was through writing that a person can reach 'the core of being.'" -
Benjamin Moser, author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice
Lispector "Llansol's text . . . creates spaces where conjecture and
counterfactual accounts operate freely granting a glimpse of an
alternative reality." Claire Williams, The Guardian Geography of
Rebels presents the English debut of three linked novellas from
influential Portuguese writer Maria Gabriela Llansol. With echoes
of Clarice Lispector, Llansol's novellas evoke her vision of
writing as life, conjuring historical figures and weaving together
history, poetry, and philosophy in a transcendent journey through
one of Portugal's greatest creative minds. Maria Gabriela Llansol
(1931-2008) is one of the preeminent Portuguese writers of the 20th
century, twice awarded the prize for best novel from the Portuguese
Writers' Association.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Midnights
Taylor Swift
CD
R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.