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* Title: Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing
* Author(s) name(s):
Deborah Levy
Henrietta Meire (Narrator)
* ASIN: B09M96M6LC
* Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
* Publication date: November 30, 2021
* Format: Audible Audio
* Page count (is hours count rounded up for audiobooks): 3
* Description:
A shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy
Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay "Why I Write." Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to hammer at his typewriter - political purpose, historical impulse, sheer egoism, and aesthetic enthusiasm - and Levy's work riffs on these same commitments from a female writer's perspective.
As she struggles to balance womanhood, motherhood, and her writing career, Levy identifies some of the real-life experiences that have shaped her novels, including her family's emigration from South Africa in the era of apartheid; her teenage years in the UK; and her theater-writing days touring Poland in the midst of Eastern Europe's economic crisis, where she observed how a soldier tenderly kissed the women in his life goodbye.
Spanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the writer at seven, 15, and 50), Things I Don't Want to Know brings the listener into a writer's heart.
* Language: English
* Link to book page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M96M6LC
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