Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing - Hardcover

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<p><b>To be published simultaneously with <i>Black Vodka</i>, the Man Booker Prize–shortlisted writer's new collection of short stories, a shimmering jewel of a book about writing.</b><br><br>Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay “Why I Write.” Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to hammer at his typewriter-political purpose, historical impulse, sheer egoism, and aesthetic enthusiasm-and Levy's newest work riffs on these same commitments from a female writer's perspective. <br><br>As she struggles to balance womanhood, motherhood, and her writing career, Levy identifies some of the real-life experiences that have shaped her novels, including her family's emigration from South Africa in the era of apartheid; her teenage years in the UK where she played at being a writer in the company of builders and bus drivers in cheap diners; and her theater-writing days touring Poland in the midst of Eastern Europe's economic crisis, where she observed how a soldier tenderly kissed the women in his life goodbye.<br><br>Spanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the author at seven, fifteen, and fifty), <i>Things I Don't Want to Know</i> brings the reader into a writer's heart.</p>

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