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Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith | Penguin Press Hardcover | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith | Penguin Press Hardcover | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith | Penguin Press Hardcover | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Discussions

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Considerada uno de los narradores anglosajones más relevantes de la actualidad, Zadie Smith ha recopilado por primera vez una selección de ensayos rebosantes de su inagotable inquietud intelectual. Ordenadas en cinco secciones ―Leer, Ser, Ver, Sentir y Recordar―, las diecisiete piezas abarcan una interesante variedad de temas, desde la cultura hasta la política, pasando por sucesos de su propia vida, tratados siempre con el ojo crítico que la caracteriza.¿Cómo afectó la vida amorosa de George Eliot a su prosa? ¿Por qué Kafka escribía a las tres de la madrugada? ¿Si Roland Barthes mató al Autor, puede resucitarlo Nabokov? Los grandes libros y las malas películas, el feminismo y las divas italianas, la literatura escrita por mujeres negras, el parecido entre Barack Obama y Eliza Doolittle... La incisiva mirada y el espíritu lúdico de Smith se alían para abordar estas y muchas otras cuestiones con un estilo profundo, sin ser académico; riguroso, sin ser dogmático, y divertido, sin ser superficial. Entre los aspectos más personales, destaca la narración de la muerte de su padre ―a quien está dedicado el libro―, además de consejos sobre el oficio de escribir y unos curiosos retratos de Katharine Hepburn y Greta Garbo.Cambiar de idea es un libro de no ficción de primer orden, que se revela, por su amplitud de miras y su empatía, como un fascinante autorretrato de la autora. Un regalo para lectores de toda condición que derrocha curiosidad e inteligencia.

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I went on a tear through Zadie Smith's novels last year, starting with "White Teeth" and moving thru her work over the months. She is easily one of my new favorite writers, and so when I saw this essay collection on Amazon (having read her most recent essay collection, "Feel Free," earlier), I had to have it."Changing My Mind" is a far-reaching collection of essays, some literary, some cinematic, others dealing with other aspects of art, but all deeply personal on one level or another. It is a collection that rewards close reading and casual skimming alike. When you're reading the work of a great author, she can make you care about things you never would have without her prose to guide you. But the essays about shared interest are perhaps even better; to see something that you're enthusiastic about (like, say, David Foster Wallace) get validation through the work of a great essayist is something you can't beat.Zadie Smith is a master of fiction, because she has enormous empathy for her characters and a gift for depicting even the most mundane moments in their lives. She brings that gift to her reading, cinema-watching, and shared love of comedy with her father (easily the most moving essay is the one about her father's terminal illness and their shared love of British comedy). This is a collection of essays as moving as a great novel.
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