Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays
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 f…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-88248-3
- EAN: 9780393882483
- Produktnummer: 36579867
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.2 cm 267 g
- Gewicht: 267
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Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers The Emperor's Children and The Burning Girl, and a book of essays, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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