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Eva Figes (1932–2012)

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28+ obres 772 Membres 8 Ressenyes 2 preferits

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Inclou aquests noms: Eva Figes, Eva Figes

Obres de Eva Figes

Light (1983) 145 exemplars
The Seven Ages (1825) 74 exemplars
Nelly's Version (1977) 67 exemplars
Waking (1981) 58 exemplars
Ghosts (1988) 41 exemplars
The Tree of Knowledge (1990) 40 exemplars
Little Eden: A Child at War (1978) 21 exemplars
Tragedy and Social Evolution (1976) 14 exemplars
Women's Letters in Wartime: 1450-1945 (1993) — Editor — 11 exemplars
Days (1983) 8 exemplars
The Tenancy (1993) 8 exemplars
The Knot (1996) 8 exemplars
B (1972) 6 exemplars
Winter Journey (1969) 5 exemplars
Scribble Sam (1971) 4 exemplars
Konek Landing (1969) 2 exemplars
The Musicians of Bremen (1967) 2 exemplars
Modern Choice 2 1 exemplars
Gjenferd (1989) 1 exemplars
Figes, Eva Archive 1 exemplars
Equinox (1969) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

He and I and the Elephants — Traductor, algunes edicions2 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Unger, Eva (meisjesnaam)
Figes, Eva
Data de naixement
1932-04-15
Data de defunció
2012-08-28
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
Groot-Brittannië
Duitsland
Lloc de naixement
Berlijn, Duitsland
Lloc de defunció
London, England, UK
Llocs de residència
Berlijn, Duitsland
Londen, Engeland, UK
Educació
University of London (Queen Mary College, BA, 1953)
Kingsbury Grammar School
Professions
novelist
literary critic
translator
memoirist
women's studies scholar
Relacions
Figes, Orlando (zoon)
Figes, Kate (dochter)
Wilmers, Mary-Kay (editor)
Grass, Günter (vriend)
Agent
Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd
Biografia breu
Eva Figes, née Unger, was born to a prosperous Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, and had an idyllic early childhood. In November 1938, during the Nazi pogrom known as Kristallnacht, her father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After his release, the family managed to flee to the UK, arriving in 1939. She was an avid reader and soon mastered the English language. In 1953, she graduated with honours from Queen Mary College at the University of London. She worked in publishing until 1967, when she quit to become a full-time writer. In 1954, she married John George Figes, with whom she had two children, writer Kate Figes and historian Orlando Figes. The couple later divorced. Her best-known book is Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society (1970), a hugely influential early British feminist work. She won the Guardian Fiction Prize for her second novel Winter Journey in 1967 and was acclaimed for creating new literary forms in works such as Light (1983). Among her dozen other novels was Konek Landing (1969), about a Holocaust survivor unable to come to terms with the present. She also wrote literary criticism, including Sex and Subterfuge: Women Novelists to 1850 (1982); and a trio of memoirs, Little Eden: A Child at War (1978), Tales of Innocence and Experience: An Exploration (2004), and Journey to Nowhere (2008).

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Eva Figes is a really good writer...of poems. "The Knot" is very poetic, very melodic? use of words thus it becomes hard to understand at times. I do commend her for making simple life become poetic, worthy of reading but its hard to understand. If it was written in normal prose I might have liked it maybe even loved it. I want to know more about Anna and Daniel but the format of the book made it hard to take a closer look at their personal lives. I can't keep up with the characters that were not "properly" introduced. It felt like I'm thrown into a conversation with people I don't know. I was forced to know them. Anna, on the other hand, I know very well. Aside from us having the same name, the book also showed her deepest emotion. She's weird based on what I've read.

Like Saramago, Eva Figes hates quotation marks but Saramago did it better. This one I just get confused on who's saying what. Eva Figes also hates describing her characters. I can't even imagine the characters properly. Their faces kept on changing.
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krizia_lazaro | Mar 10, 2014 |
This novel opens as a woman is checking into a country inn. She suddenly finds herself unable to remember anything, including her name. She randomly chooses a name, Nelly Dean. When she gets to her room she discovers that she has a suitcase full of cash, and no idea where it came from. She fears that this circumstance might place her in danger, and she senses that perhaps she is supposed to simply wait for the next development.

We follow Nelly as she wanders through the village over the next several days, unsure whether she recognizes the faces and places she encounters.

This book is not a mystery/thriller. Rather it is a psychological exploration of the mind of a disturbed woman, and we begin to wonder whether everything we read exists strictly in Nelly's mind. The book is fairly easy to read, and it is compelling, although the style verges on the edge of surrealism, which I sometimes find difficult to read.
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arubabookwoman | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jan 20, 2012 |
I was really looking forward to reading this, but was so put off by a sentence regarding rape, very early on, regarding the pleasures of rape (for the girl) that I can't make myself pick it up again.
 
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bookczuk | Nov 3, 2011 |
This is a life in the day of Claude Monet. Somedody on the back cover calls it a masterpiece. I thought it was pretty good after I had worked out who everybody was: Auguste, Francoise, Marthe, She, He, Lily, him, her, Pierre, Theodore, Jean Pierre, Claude, Monet, Octave, Mirbeau. Second half of the book around the dinner table was excellent.
 
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jon1lambert | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Feb 6, 2011 |

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Obres
28
També de
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Membres
772
Popularitat
#32,960
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
8
ISBN
84
Llengües
5
Preferit
2

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