Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write Deborah Levy

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Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy

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'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work over time to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December.' Deborah Levy

Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write Summary

Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy

Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life, this is a perfect companion not just to Orwell's essay, but also to Levy's own, essential oeuvre.

Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write Reviews

'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression.' Jeanette Winterson

About Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts, leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination. She wrote and published her first novel Beautiful Mutants, when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. Her recent novel, Swimming Home, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. Levy has just published Black Vodka: Ten Stories with And Other Stories.

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GOR005797424

ISBN 13

9781907903632

ISBN 10

1907903631

Title

Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy

Author

Deborah Levy

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Hardback

Publisher

Notting Hill Editions

Year published

20130101

Number of pages

107

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