Hiddensee - Couverture souple

Freud, Annie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1529037689 ISBN 13 : 9781529037685

Editeur : Picador, 2021

Synopsis

A powerful collection from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted Annie Freud.

Hiddensee represents Annie Freud’s most ambitious work to date, not least because it is a book about ambition and its necessity, the need to go beyond oneself, and to do what one cannot: Freud dives into other ways of thinking, other art forms, the taboos of illness and desire, and – spectacularly – other languages.

This ambition has also emboldened Freud to pursue and confront the complex truth of herself: her German Jewish inheritance, her teachers, the remarkable minds of the exiled individuals who raised her – and the exiles she herself then pursued. The book also celebrates the work of the French-language Swiss poet Jacques Tornay, whom Freud identifies as a spiritual brother – and a route back into her own French and symbolist influences. These astonishing and generous versions of Tornay remind us that our voices should not and cannot be uncomplicatedly our own.

Hiddensee is named for the Baltic island where Annie Freud’s grandmother spent her summers before the war (and its famous artistic community, whose members included George Grosz and Käthe Kollwitz). In its unselfconscious internationalism and breathtaking cultural range, Hiddensee offers a radically European and multilingual perspective to counter the cultural narrowness and closing borders of the current age, and again confirms Freud as one of our most essential poets.

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À propos de l'auteur

Annie Freud grew up in London and graduated in English and European Literature at the University of Warwick. She has one daughter, May.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529037689
• ISBN 13: 9781529037685
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible