I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of MemoryW. 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. |
Contenido
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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