Kant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays

Messud, Claire, 1966- author.

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"Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature. In twenty-nine intimate, brilliant, funny, and sharp essays, Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt;...

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ISBN:

9781324006756

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xxi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Target Audience Note:

Adult Brodart

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306)

Contents:

Reflections. Then
Nostalgia
The road to Damascus
Two women
Mother's knee
Kant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write
Our dogs
How to be a better woman in the twenty-first century
Teenage girls
The time for art is now
Criticism: books. Three essays on Camu and his legacy: Camus and Algeria: the moral question
A new L'©♭tranger
The brother of the stranger: Kamel Daoud
Kazuo Ishiguro
Jane Bowles
Italo Svevo
Teju Cole
Magda Szab©đ
Rachel Cusk
Saul Friedl©Þnder
Yaqsmine El Rashidi
Valeria Luiselli
Criticsm: Images. Alice Neel
Marlene Dumas
Sally Mann
A home from home: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

LCCN:

2020018802

Control Number:

3015155

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