In Paradise - Couverture rigide

Matthiessen, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1780745559 ISBN 13 : 9781780745558

Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2014

Synopsis

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In Paradise tells the story of a group of men and women who come together for a weeklong meditation retreat at the site of a World War II concentration camp, and the grief, rage and upsetting revelations that surface during their time together. Even as it probes the suffering, conflicts, and longings of these diverse characters, In Paradise raises provocative and unanswerable metaphysical questions: what responsibility comes with bearing witness to such cruelty and tragedy; and what insights into the nature of good and evil may be lost in the next decade or two, as the last survivors of – and witnesses to – the death camps pass away. Having participated in three Zen retreats at Auschwitz beginning in the 1990s, Matthiessen had long wished to comment on the ongoing fallout of last century's global catastrophe, but ‘as a non-Jewish American journalist, I felt unqualified to do so, I felt I had no right. But approaching it as fiction – as a novelist, an artist – I eventually decided that I did. Only fiction would allow me to probe from a variety of viewpoints the great strangeness of what I had felt.’

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Matthiessen is an American novelist, naturalist, and wilderness writer. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review and a three-time National Book Award-winner, he has also been a prominent environmental activist. He is the author of ten novels, including Shadow Country, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008, and over twenty works of non-fiction, including the international bestselling The Snow Leopard (1978), which won two National Book Awards in 1979 and 1980, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983). He is 86 and lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oneworld Publications
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780745559
• ISBN 13: 9781780745558
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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