Memory - Softcover

Byatt, A S; Harvey Wood, Harriet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099470136 ISBN 13: 9780099470137

Verlag: Vintage, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This fascinating anthology introduces us to a wide range of arguments on the subject of memory, the thread that holds our lives, and our history, together. Arranged in themed sections, the book includes specially commissioned essays by the editors and by writers with expertise in different fields - from 'Memory and Evolution' by Patrick Bateson to 'Memory and Forgetting' by the biographer Richard Holmes, and an account of the chemistry of the brain by Steven Rose.

Complementing the essays are a rich selection of extracts from writers and thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle, Montaigne and Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Proust, Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami. Stimulating, provocative, funny or profoundly moving, Memory is a book to treasure - and remember.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harriet Harvey Wood is the former Head of Literature at the British Council.

A.S. Byatt is internationally acclaimed as a novelist, short story-writer and critic. Her books include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize in 1990), and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught at the Central School of Art and Design, and was Senior Lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0099470136
• ISBN 13: 9780099470137
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
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