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Chargement... Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life (original 2006; édition 2006)par Erica Jong (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreSeducing the Demon: Writing for My Life par Erica Jong (2006)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Fun meditation on writing and life. When we write about our lives we change how we remember them and the people in our lives. Plus, insightful thoughts on fame and mingling with the famous. ( ) An intriguing look at the life of writer Erica Jong, including her views on writing, politics, feminism, relationships, and motherhood. It's particularly interesting given some of Jong's experiences and the people with whom she has associated over the years. Also delves into her feelings regarding her daughter, Molly, and the terrifying drug addiction she lived through in her teen years. In some ways, I found this memoir more interesting than Jong's fiction. This memoir is full of juicy anecdotes and valuable insights, but at the same time, it seems as if it were thrown together. The appearance of an anachronistic detail in one of the anecdotes caused me to doubt somewhat the book's veracity, but one should always beware novelists; that's what Jong herself writes. The book is worth reading for the insights on the writing process and the life of a writer. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Jong began this book as a guide for aspiring writers. It was to be a book full of practical advice, inspiring examples, and sage wisdom--but she quickly realized that writing such a book would be dishonest, a way to veil the difficult nature of the writer's life with platitudes and encouragement. A demon out of an Isaac Singer story whispered in Jong's ear: "Tell the truth!" She knew she had no choice but to obey. Jong tells us she writes "to get my life down on paper so it can never be extinguished," and "to keep from going mad." This, then, is the sublime and salacious story of one writer's long and successful career as a poet, novelist, and feminist provocateur. Equally candid about the privileges of fame and the slaps of notoriety, Jong is above all loyal to the importance of telling the truth in an age of lies.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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