We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays Cementing Hazzard's place as one of the twentieth century's sharpest and most versatile thinkers, this collection also encapsulates for readers th.Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction wr
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| Title | : | We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231173261 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-05 |
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Editorial : This book shows that Hazzard is a fierce defender of the humanistic belief in the efficacy of literature (especially poetry) and art to illuminate the truth and to provide meaningful insight into the mystery of human existence.
(Michael Collier, author of An Individual History)
Hazzard's essays are full of crystalline turns of phrase and aphoristic expressions of her core humanist principlesas well as of revealing, often fascinating, political contradictions. Scholars and students of Hazzard will strike gold.
(Claire Seiler, Dickinson College)
A rich, urbane, insightful collection.
(Kirkus Reviews (starred review))
In these essays there is a lovely sense of witnessing a brilliant and judicious mind at work. Shirley Hazzard has a way of finding the right phrase, and capturing a tone and a rhythm, that offer a sort of sensuous pleasure to the reader. She cares passionately about writing, the life of the mind, an
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. 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. She shares her personal experience with the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bombing and the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. 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, despiteor maybe because ofthe world's disheartening realities. Cementing Hazzard's place as one of the twentieth century's sharpest and most versatile thinkers, this collection also encapsulates for readers th
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