Autore: Lara Feigel

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places. W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries …

This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including ninet …

This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature. Dismayed …

War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing-memoir, biography, letters, diaries-buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional form …

War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing-memoir, biography, letters, diaries-buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional form …

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As the Second World War neared its conclusion, Germany was a nation reduced to rubble: 3.6 million German homes had been destroyed leaving 7.5 million people homeless; an apocalyptic landscape of fla …

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‘A very funny and brilliant book. Feigel does a thorough and virtuosic job of describing the dilemmas of contemporary middle-class women’ Rachel Cusk The five of them – Stella, Priss, Kay, Helena and …

‘Her intensity and intimacy are engaging’ Blake Morrison, Guardian’A lovely, urgent, serious book’ Tessa Hadley’Refreshing and unexpected’ Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving literary …

‘Her intensity and intimacy are engaging’ Blake Morrison, Guardian’A lovely, urgent, serious book’ Tessa Hadley’Refreshing and unexpected’ Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving literary …