Another Life: On Memory, Language, Love, and the Passage of Time - Couverture rigide

Kallifatides, Theodor

 
9781590519455: Another Life: On Memory, Language, Love, and the Passage of Time
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ISBN 10 : 1590519450 ISBN 13 : 9781590519455
Editeur : Other Press, 2018

Synopsis

A rewarding philosophical essay on memory, language, love, and the passage of time, from a Greek immigrant who became one of Sweden’s most highly respected writers

“Nobody should write after the age of seventy-five,” a friend had said. At seventy-seven, struggling with the weight of writer’s block, Theodor Kallifatides makes the difficult decision to sell the Stockholm studio where he diligently worked for decades and retire. Unable to write, and yet unable to not write, he travels to his native Greece in the hope of rediscovering that lost fluidity of language.
 
In this slim memoir, Kallifatides explores the interplay of meaningful living and meaningful work, and the timeless question of how to reconcile oneself to aging. But he also comments on worrying trends in contemporary Europe—from religious intolerance and prejudice against immigrants to housing crises and gentrification—and his sadness at the battered state of his beloved Greece.
 
Kallifatides offers an eloquent, thought-provoking meditation on the writing life, and an author’s place in a changing world.
 

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À propos de l?auteur

Theodor Kallifatides has published more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that have been translated around the world. Born in Greece in 1938, Kallifatides immigrated in 1964 to Sweden, where he began his literary career. As a translator, he has brought August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman to Greek readers, and Giannis Ritsos and Mikis Theodorakis to Swedish ones. He has received numerous awards for his work in both Greece and Sweden. He lives in Sweden.

Marlaine Delargy has translated novels by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Kristina Ohlsson, and Helene Tursten, as well as The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist (Other Press) and Therese Bohman’s Drowned (Other Press). She lives in England.

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Éditeur
Other Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1590519450
ISBN 13 
9781590519455
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
144
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Personne responsable
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