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9788439735717

El coste de vivir: Autobiografía en construcción / The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

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  • ISBN13:

    9788439735717

  • ISBN10:

    8439735715

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2019-10-22
  • Publisher: Literatura Random House
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Summary

¿Qué quiere decir ser libre como mujer o como artista?
¿Y cuál es el precio de esta libertad?

El coste de vivir es la segunda parte de la poderosa «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy.

Deborah Levy empieza a escribir este libro cuando, con cincuenta años, se ve forzada a reinventarse: su matrimonio ha terminado, sus ingresos escasean, su madre se está muriendo y sus hijas empiezan a abandonar el nido. En un momento en que la vida tendría que volverse plácida e imperturbable, Levy decide abrazar el caos y la inestabilidad a cambio de recuperar, oculto bajo capas y capas de resignación, un nombre propio.

A través de un diálogo con intelectuales como Marguerite Duras o Simone de Beauvoir, y mediante recuerdos que evoca con elocuencia, sensibilidad y un delicioso sentido del humor, Levy se pregunta cuál es ese papel ficticio escrito por hombres e interpretado por mujeres al que llamamos «feminidad». Cualquiera que haya luchado por ser libre y por construir una vida propia sabe que es precisamente eso: una lucha constante en la que se paga un coste por vivir.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The bestselling modern manifesto on the politics of womanhood from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home.

New York Times Notable Book

A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018

¿What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?

This vibrant memoir, a portrait of contemporary womanhood in flux, is an urgent quest to find an unwritten major female character who can exist more easily in the world. Levy considers what it means to live with meaning, value, and pleasure, to seize the ultimate freedom of writing our own lives, and reflects on the work of such artists and thinkers as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch, and Emily Dickinson.

The Cost of Living, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction, is crucial testimony, as distinctive, witty, complex, and original as Levy's acclaimed novels.

Author Biography

Deborah Levy (Johannesburgo, 1959) es novelista, dramaturga y poeta. Es autora de seis novelas, dos de ellas finalistas del Man Booker Prize: Nadando a casa y Leche caliente.

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