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Happiness, As Such (Paperback)
Natalia Ginzburg; Translated by Minna Proctor
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Discovery Miles 2 570
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New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and
mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats,
and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction,
Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the
essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic vein. Of
De Quincey's early nineteenth-century world we hear of the habits
of writers: Charles Lamb "spoke of 'Lilliputian rabbits' when
eating frog fricassse"; Henry Fuseli "ate a diet of raw meat in
order to obtain splendid dreams"; "Hazlitt was perceptive about
musculature and boxers"; and "Wordsworth used a buttery knife to
cut the pages of a first-edition Burke." In a book of "blue devils"
and night visions, the Keats essay opens: "In 1803, the guillotine
was a common child's toy." And poor Schwob's end comes as he feels
"like a 'dog cut open alive'": "His face colored slightly, turning
into a mask of gold. His eyes stayed open imperiously. No one could
shut his eyelids. The room smoked of grief." Fleur Jaeggy's
essays-or are they prose poems?-smoke of necessity: the pages are
on fire.
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Happiness, as Such (Paperback)
Natalia Ginzburg; Translated by Minna Proctor
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R416
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Discovery Miles 3 320
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At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence-an abyss that
pulls everyone to its brink-created by a family's only son,
Michele, who has fled from Italy to England to escape the dangers
and threats of his radical political ties. This novel is part
epistolary: his mother writes letters to him, nagging him; his
sister Angelica writes, missing him; so does Mara, his former
lover, telling him about the birth of her son who may be his own.
Left to clean up Michele's mess, his family and friends complain,
commiserate, tease, and grieve, struggling valiantly with the small
and large calamities of their interconnected lives. Natalia
Ginzburg's most beloved book in Italy and one of her finest
achievements, Happiness, as Such is an original, wise, raw, comic
novel that cuts to the bone.
For a brief moment in 1940 the lives of a young Spanish militant
and a reclusive academic of German and Jewish heritage are thrown
together. Along with thousands of others across Europe, both men
have fled their homeland in the face of fascist persecution. Yet,
until the day their paths converge on a remote mountain pass
between France and Spain, their experience of war has been vastly
different. Based on true events of Benjamin's life, and ranging
from Paris' Left Bank to the prison camps of southern France, The
Angel of History explores how the history we think we know is not a
series of events but rather a constellation of countless individual
lives. And although every story is unique, each is founded on the
same human desire - to be remembered.
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