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S'està carregant… The Year of Magical Thinking (2005 original; edició 2007)de Joan Didion (Autor)
Informació de l'obraL'Any del pensament màgic de Joan Didion (2005)
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» 22 més 100 New Classics (37) Female Author (337) Top Five Books of 2018 (649) 2000s decade (49) Carole's List (256) Penguin Random House (29) Read These Too (69) Books Read in 2012 (132) Deathreads (2) Unread books (660) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Wow! What a moving book. Such raw honesty, heartfelt, and detailed. I cried when I finished the book. Definitely, death is not a subject I would chose to read, I only picked this book up on the author's merit, but glad I did. I took note of Didion saying that grief and mourning is a mental illness; and the loss of cognitive abilities in these circumstances as being common. Reading about Didion's loss, and describing her own reactions helps enormously in understanding my own reactions. Thanks JD, for sharing this personal autobiography. Maybe my expectations were too high. Maybe because I haven't experience any major unexpected losses in my life, I was totally underwhelmed by this book. I listened to the audio version. Having been forced inside over the last 72 hours from a particularly heavy snowstorm I decided to dive into Didion's accounts of grief/loss for some perspective. This was deeply addicting to read, as most death memoirs are, and the moments when Didion shifts to a clinical analysis of the nature of grief/mourning are cutting and revelatory. I wasn't surprised to see many on here taking issue with the name-dropping or inadvertent flexing that was going on in the more mundane parts of her account - it can be a bit disengaging and alienating, but the facts are the facts. There also is something to the equalizing force of loss transcending social order. I will be reading "Blue Nights" sometime soon, and can plainly see why Didion was such a literary force. I listened to the audible production of this by Vanessa Redgrave and it was clearly an abridged version. Sounds like they took out most of the parts people have been finding annoying and kept the beautiful and mesmerizing parts! I will now take the time to compare the written version. But wow, what I heard really captured the complexities and contradictions.
Essayistic and concise, seeking external points of comparison, trying to set her case in some wider context. The book is, as promised, extraordinary. The Year of Magical Thinking is raw, brutal, compact, precise, immediate, literate, and, given the subject matter, astonishingly readable. Though the material is literally terrible, the writing is exhilarating and what unfolds resembles an adventure narrative: a forced expedition into those "cliffs of fall" identified by Hopkins. The Year of Magical Thinking , though it spares nothing in describing Didion's confusion, grief and derangement, is a work of surpassing clarity and honesty. It may not provide "meaning" to her husband's death or her daughter's illness, but it describes their effects on her with unsparing candor. It was not written as a self-help handbook for the bereaved but as a journey into a place that none of us can fully imagine until we have been there. Té l'adaptacióTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiants
Biography & Autobiography.
Self-Improvement.
Nonfiction.
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Dass das ein sehr schweres Jahr ist, kann ich gut nachvollziehen. Ich finde es beachtlich und respektabel, dass sie ihre Gedanken schon recht früh schreibend ordnet. Diese Gedanken sind der Trauer immanent, das magische Denken (wenn.. dann kommt er zurück), auch das Bewusstsein, dass die Uhr schon lange tickt und man es immer verdrängt. Johns Herz war anfällig, schon lange vorher nannten die Ärzte diese Disposition "Widowmaker". Sind es dann geschenkte Jahre, die man nach einer solchen Diagnose noch hat oder genommene Jahre, die nach dem Tod noch fehlen? Beides vermutlich. Ich habe das Buch auf Englisch gelesen und fand den Unterschied zwischen "moarn" und "grief" erstaunlich. Wie würde man das übersetzen? Trauern und betrauern? Wenn mir die Übersetzung mal begegnet, muss ich nachschauen.
Aber ich fand das Buch ensetzlich langatmig. Vielleicht habe ich es auf Englisch nicht voll genießen kömnnen, das mag sein. Es bleibt aber der Schluss, dass ich mich eher durchgequält habe, zweimal darüber eingeschlafen bin und es nicht gern gelesen habe. Ich kann die Lobeshymnen überhaupt nicht nachvollziehen und Aussagen wie "I can´t imagine dying without this book" (New York review of books) lassen mich nur den Kopf schütteln. (