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Indlæser... The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendshipsaf Robert B. Silvers (Redaktør), Barbara Epstein (Redaktør)
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  PaulLoesch | Apr 2, 2022 |   There are some I skipped for one reason or another, but I read most and found them worth the read. They gave insights into the real person side of a well-known figure, making them more human and helping to understand them better. Overall, the book was interesting and informative. It offers insights, explanations and even some thoughts which I found helpful to me. (  ) Paul-the-well-read | Apr 18, 2020 | This is a collection of short essays written by well known authors about their late friends and the influence those friends had on their writing. In at least one case, the subject and the author hadn't met or corresponded so weren't actually friends and in others, the pairs seem to be more acquaintances than friends. And this fact leads directly to one of the things I found so lacking. In these cases, there was no personal insight into the subject. There was nothing more here than what an introduction to their collected works or an encyclopedia would say about them. There was a discussion of their influence or their craft but not as much (and sometimes nothing at all) about the person behind the writing, music, science, etc. Certainly I'm not arguing that the essays, all of which are understandably eulogistic in tone, should lay bare the person about whom they were written but asking for a piece written by a friend would imply to me that there was a personal connection that could or should be mined a little bit, an insight the general public or a diligent scholar would not have. Those remembered by these essays were certainly lions in their fields but they were men and women first, not solely defined by their works, and that is what I was looking and hoping for here, the personal. The authors whose works I had read were no more illuminating to me than the authors whose works I had never read, nor did these pieces inspire me to search them out. There were a few pieces that defied this academic remove but they only served to highlight the missing warmth and humanity in the bulk of the pieces. The writing is, as you'd expect, quite impressive, but it's also on balance quite cold. May my own obituary (far in the future, please) be full of far more feeling than was evinced here! (  ) whitreidtan | Nov 15, 2018 |  ) Stronghart | Sep 21, 2009 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Now in paperback Many of the illustrious contributors to The New York Review of Books have had deep and abiding relationships–both personal and intellectual–with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. The Company They Kept is a collection of twenty-seven accounts of these varied friendships–most of them undeniably fraught with “idiosyncratic complexities.” From Anna Akhmatova’s dreamlike description of wandering through Paris with the impoverished Modigliani to Joseph Brodsky’s account of his first meeting with Isaiah Berlin (from which he returned to report, around the kitchen table, to Stephen Spender and W. H. Auden), these pieces are tantalizing glimpses into the lives of those who have made The New York Review of Books into what Esquire magazine calls “the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.” No library descriptions found. |
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There are some I skipped for one reason or another, but I read most and found them worth the read. They gave insights into the real person side of a well-known figure, making them more human and helping to understand them better.
Overall, the book was interesting and informative. It offers insights, explanations and even some thoughts which I found helpful to me. (