The Cost of Living
内容简介
A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century
The audacious and elegiac second installment in her 'living autobiography' on writing and womanhood, from the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home
'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor sharp insights' Financial Times
Following the acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, Deborah Levy returns to the subject of her life in letters. The Cost of Living reveals a writer in radical flux, considering what it means to live with value and meaning and pleasure. This perfectly crafted snapshot of a woman in the process of transformation is as distinctive, wide-ranging and original as Levy's acclaimed novels, an essential read for every Deborah Levy fan.
'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy is a brilliant writer . . . Each sentence is a small masterpiece of clarity and poise' Telegraph
'This short, sensual, embattled memoir is not only about the painful landmarks in her life - the end of a marriage, the death of a mother - it is about what it is to be alive. I can't think of any other writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer
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作者简介
Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she is the author of highly praised books including The Unloved, Swallowing Geography, and Beautiful Mutants. Her novel Swimming Home was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, 2012 Specsavers National Book awards, and 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize. Her recent short story collection, Black Vodka, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Things I Don’t Want to Know is the title of Levy’s sparkling response to George Orwell’s essay ‘Why I Write’, an autobiographical essay on writing, gender politics and philosophy. Her collection of poetry, An Amorous Discourse in The Suburbs of Hell, was inspired by William Blake’s vision of angels perched in a tree on Peckham Common.
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读书文摘
与此同时，我们会刻意回避有关她自己的性格和人生目标的叙事。 父亲在这个世界上做他需要做的事情，我们都理解那是他的使命。但如果母亲在这个世界上做她需要做的事情，我们却会觉得她抛弃了我们，这种混杂矛盾的信息，用社会中最致命的毒墨水写成，她能从中幸存已是奇迹。这一切足可令她疯癫。
我们怎么会需要一个爱做梦的母亲呢？我们并不希望母亲把目光投向我们之外的地方，不希望她有去别处的渴望。我们需要她待在这个世界，活跃、能干，有求必应。 我是否曾嘲笑我母亲内心的梦想家，然后又为她没有梦想而羞辱她？
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