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* Read * We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard Û eBook or Kindle ePUB. We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays 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, despiteor maybe because ofthe world's disheartening realities. 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. Cementing Hazzard's place
| Title | : | We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.10 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231173261 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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, despiteor maybe because ofthe world's disheartening realities. 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. 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.. She shares her personal experience with the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bombing and the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. 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 institu
I love the writing of shirley hazzard Amazon Customer I love the writing of shirley hazzard;in conjunction with her husband, she wrote an impeccable treatment of life in Naples, Italy:a hymn of praise to Naples and its background, a superb and moving portrait of past and present;her husband, Francis Steegmuller, wrote a superb portrait of Madame Bovary.
Shirley Hazzard has a way of finding the right phrase, and capturing a tone and a rhythm, that offer a sort of sensuous pleasure to the reader. What comes through most clearly is Hazzard's delight in the English language and its capacity for expression and communication. Scholars and students of Hazzard will strike gold. She is an inspiring presence in our literary lives, and having these essays is both a gift and a revelation. This book shows that Hazzard is a fierce defender of the humanistic belief in the efficacy of literatu
Shirley Hazzard won the National Book Award for her 2003 novel The Great Fire and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Transit of Venus. She is the author of The Evening of the Holiday and The Bay of Noon, which was nominated for the Lost Booker Prize; Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene; and People in Glass Houses, a short-story collection based on her time at the United Nations. She lives in New York City and Capri.Brigitta Olubas i
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