We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays Hazzard ShirleyPaperback
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays Hazzard ShirleyPaperback Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global…
Specifikacia We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays Hazzard ShirleyPaperback
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays Hazzard ShirleyPaperback
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. 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 institution's manifold failings.
Cementing Hazzard's place as one 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, despite--or maybe because of--the world's disheartening realities.
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