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Sybille Bedford

Jigsaw

An Unsentimental Education

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Bedford's autobiographical novel paints a vivid picture of life in 1920s Europe between the wars.Sybille Bedford placed the ambiguous and inescapable stuff of her own life at the center of her fiction, and in Jigsaw-her fourth and final novel, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize-she did it with particular artistry. What I had in mind, she was later to say, was to build a novel out of the events and people who had made up, and marked, my early youth...Truth here was an artistic, not moral, requirement...It involved...writing about myself, my feelings, my actions. And so she assembled the puzzle pie… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-68137-192-4
  • EAN: 9781681371924
  • Produktnummer: 24088574
  • Verlag: New York Review Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 352 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'707 KB

Über den Autor


Sybille Bedford (1911-2006) was born Sybille von Schoenebeck in Charlottenburg, Germany, to an aristocratic German father and a partly Jewish, Hamburg-born mother. Raised variously in Germany, Italy, France, and England, she lived with her mother and Italian stepfather after her father's death when she was seven, and was educated privately. Encouraged by Aldous Huxley, Bedford began writing fiction at the age of sixteen and went on to publish four novels, all influenced by her itinerant childhood among the European aristocracy: A Legacy, A Favourite of the Gods, A Compass Error, and Jigsaw (short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize). She married Walter Bedford in 1935 and lived briefly in America during World War II, before returning to England. She was a prolific travel writer, the author of a two-volume biography of her friend Huxley, and a legal journalist, covering nearly one hundred trials. In 1981 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

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