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Un divorzio doloroso, una grande casa da lasciare, due figlie da crescere e le fatture che si accumulano. Deborah Levy ha 50 anni quando decide di ricostruirsi a partire da due oggetti: una bici elettrica e una penna stilografica. Raccontando del periodo in cui la madre si stava spegnendo e il suo matrimonio stava per finire, Levy illustra i drammi surreali di una persona rimasta sola, ponendo infine una domanda cruciale: può una donna vivere in accordo con i propri valori, essere libera di cercare il piacere e avere il diritto al desiderio? Pieno di humour e saggezza, "Il costo della vita" è uno straordinario manifesto sull'essere donna, su come rifiutare regole sociali violente, e sul prezzo da pagare per costruire un mondo tutto per sé.
- ISBN: 1255750294
- Casa Editrice: NN Editore
- Pagine: 168
- Data di uscita: 10-05-2024
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Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs. Even if I thought the first part of Deborah Levy’s ‘Working Autobiography’ trilogy not particularly captivating, these slim volumes in bright blue, yellow and red are so alluringly designed I feel irresistibly dra Leggi tutto
“I did not wish to restore the past. What I needed was an entirely new composition.” Why have I waited so long to read Deborah Levy? This is one of those books, much like several others I have read lately, which will linger and resonate for months to come. I’m not stumbling on these books accidentall Leggi tutto
Even stronger than the excellent Things I Don't Want to Know, Levy is firing on all cylinders in this short memoir segment, which details a year of change after a divorce, and examines instances of erasure of women in modern society. The scenes are memorable, poignant, and often hilarious (a run ove Leggi tutto
Deborah Levy is a woman for our times. She is up to her neck in this moment, stewing like a teabag. One can imagine calming a stressed constituent by sitting her down and handing her a cup …a copy of Levy’s slim new book, a working autobiography, a quiet, private, assessing look at a life which tries Leggi tutto
Towards the end of last year I picked up a collection of essays by Deborah Levy, entitled Things I Don't Want to Know . These essays were written as a feminist response to George Orwell's Why I Write , which I was reading at the time. I adored Orwell's writing but there was something about Levy's essa Leggi tutto
The Cost of Living is the second part of a three-volume memoir written by the British author Deborah Levy. I read the first part, Things I Don’t Want to Know , last week and loved it so much I immediately followed it up with this one. But that was last week. You see, my problem is that I have a memor Leggi tutto
Deborah Levy has a unique style of writing which references a disparate range of influences and layers in a lot of symbolism in order to tease out some of the most essential questions about life. I admired the way her novel “Hot Milk” looks at what happens when familial roles are reversed or become Leggi tutto
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