I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 - 229 páginas
In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, "weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the autobiographical writing that has enchanted or bedeviled her. Subjects engaging Hampl's attention include her family's response to her writing, the ethics of writing about family and friends, St. Augustine's Confessions, reflections on reading Walt Whitman during the Vietnam War, and an early experience reviewing Sylvia Plath. The word that unites the impulse within all the pieces is "Remember!"—a command that can be startling. For to remember is to make a pledge: to the indelible experience of personal perception, and to history itself.

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To the Reader
11
Memory and Imagination
21
What She Couldnt Tell
61
Czeslaw Milosz and Memory
83
Edith Stein
103
Sylvia Plaths Ambition
129
Augustines Confessions
166
Reviewing Anne Frank
184
The Need to Say It
195
Other Peoples Secrets
208
Acknowledgments 231
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Patricia Hampl, Regents' Professor at the University of Minnesota, lives in St. Paul.

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