Talking to Strangers : Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967-2017 (Paperback)
Picador USA | Paul Auster- ISBN : 9781250206299
27,900원
- 『낯선 사람에게 말 걸기』 영어원서
기본정보
| 출간일 | 2019-01-01 |
|---|---|
| 구성/판형 | Paperback | 400 pages |
| 크기 | 135 x 208 x 30mm 내외 |
| 상품번호 | 2682653 |
세계적인 작가 폴 오스터의 대표 산문 컬렉션
문학, 글쓰기, 정치 그리고 삶에 대하여베스트셀러 소설가로 가장 잘 알려진 폴 오스터는 뛰어난 에세이스트이자 시인, 번역가, 시나리오 작가이기도 하다. 『낯선 사람에게 말 걸기』는 그가 쌓아 올린 수많은 산문 중 대표작을 선별해 엮은 선집이다. 여기에 2020년 발표한 「스타니슬라프의 늑대들」을 열린책들에서 추가해 출간한다. 그는 에세이, 서문, 편지 등 다양한 형식을 넘나들면서 예리하고 지적이며 유머를 잃지 않는 언어로 문학과 글쓰기, 일상과 정치, 그리고 삶에 대해 말한다. 이 책에서 우리가 발견하게 되는 것은 재능 넘치는 작가가 걸어온 문학적 경로이자 평생 글을 써온 작업자의 이력이며, 자신이 속한 사회에 책임감을 느끼는 한 시민의 목소리이다.
Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from 2018 Man Booker Prize-finalist Paul Auster.
Beginning with a short philosophical meditation written when he was twenty and concluding with nine political pieces that take on such issues as homelessness, 9/11, and the link between soccer and war, the 44 pieces gathered in this volume offer a wide-ranging view of celebrated novelist Paul Auster's thoughts on a multitude of classic and contemporary writers, the high-wire exploits of Philippe Petit, how to improve life in New York City (in collaboration with visual artist Sophie Calle), and the long road he has traveled with his beloved manual typewriter.
While writing for the New York Review of Books and other publications in the mid-1970s, young poet Auster gained recognition as an astute literary critic with essays on Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, and others. By the late seventies and early eighties, as the poet was transforming himself into a novelist, he maintained an active double life by continuing his work as a translator and editing the groundbreaking anthology, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry. His prefaces to some of these books are included in Talking to Strangers, among them a heart-wrenching account of Stéphane Mallarmé's response to the death of his eight-year-old son, Anatole.
In recent years, Auster has pushed on with explorations into the work of American artists spanning various periods and disciplines: the notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the films of Jim Jarmusch, the writings of painter-collagist-illustrator Joe Brainard, and the three-hit shutout thrown by journeyman right-hander Terry Leach of the Mets. Also included here are several rediscovered works that were originally delivered in public: a 1982 lecture on Edgar Allan Poe, a 1999 blast against New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and one of the funniest introductions a poetry reading ever heard in the state of New Jersey.
A collection of soaring intelligence and deepest humanity, Talking to Strangers is an essential book by "the most distinguished American writer of [his] generation . . . indeed its only author . . . with any claim to greatness." (The Spectator)
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