Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write

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A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine ). Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud’s own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature. In twenty-six intimate, brilliant, and funny essays, Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger ; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. In the lumi

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (October 13, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1324006757
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1324006756
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 1.2 x 8.6 inches

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Anul publicarii	2021
ISBN	9780349726564
Format coperta	Brosata
Numar pagini	256
Limba	Englezã
Domeniul	Art
Autor	Claire Messud
De aceeasi editura	Little, Brown Book Group Limited
CM	917C1
DS	D/1#BR/2#MEGA/5
Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9780349726564
Dimensiuni	Height: 7.71652 Inches, Length: 4.96062 Inches, Weight: 0.5732018812 Pounds, Width: 1.02362 Inches