How Literature Saved My Life
แแแ. 2013 ยท Vintage
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โReading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.โ โโWhitney Otto
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In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, painfully funny book, acclaimed writer David Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature.
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Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, Shields explores the power of literature (from Blaise Pascalโs Pensรฉes to Maggie Nelsonโs Bluets, Renata Adlerโs Speedboat to Proustโs Remembrance of Things Past) to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Shields evokes his deeply divided personality (his โridiculousโ ambivalence), his character flaws, his woes, his serious despairs. Books are his life raft, but when they come to feel un-lifelike and archaic, he revels in a new kind of art that is based heavily on quotation and consciousness. And he shares with us a final irony: he wants โliterature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesnโt lie about thisโโwhich is what makes it essential.โ
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A captivating, thought-provoking, utterly original way of thinking about the essential acts of reading and writing.
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In this wonderfully intelligent, stunningly honest, painfully funny book, acclaimed writer David Shields uses himself as a representative for all readers and writers who seek to find salvation in literature.
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Blending confessional criticism and anthropological autobiography, Shields explores the power of literature (from Blaise Pascalโs Pensรฉes to Maggie Nelsonโs Bluets, Renata Adlerโs Speedboat to Proustโs Remembrance of Things Past) to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Shields evokes his deeply divided personality (his โridiculousโ ambivalence), his character flaws, his woes, his serious despairs. Books are his life raft, but when they come to feel un-lifelike and archaic, he revels in a new kind of art that is based heavily on quotation and consciousness. And he shares with us a final irony: he wants โliterature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human loneliness. Literature doesnโt lie about thisโโwhich is what makes it essential.โ
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A captivating, thought-provoking, utterly original way of thinking about the essential acts of reading and writing.
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DAVID SHIELDS is the author of thirteen previous books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day Youโll Be Dead (New York Times best seller), Black Planet (National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Remote (winner of the PEN/Revson Award). He has published essays and stories in dozens of periodicals, including The New York Times Magazine, Harperโs,The Village Voice, The Yale Review, Salon, Slate, McSweeneyโs, and The Believer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.
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