Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants.
Deirdre Bair Poradie kníh
21. jún 1935 – 17. apríl 2020
Deirdre Bair je uznávaná autorka, ktorá sa vo svojich dielach venuje hlbokému skúmaniu životov a myslí významných osobností. Jej majstrovské rozprávačstvo čitateľov vtiahne do komplexnosti ľudskej psychiky a tvorivého procesu. Bair sa zameriava na odhaľovanie motivácií a filozofie svojich subjektov, čím vytvára nielen portréty, ale predovšetkým hlboké literárne analýzy. Jej práce sú cenené pre precíznosť, pútavosť a schopnosť odhaliť to podstatné, čo formuje životy a diela významných umelcov a mysliteľov.
- 2020
- 2004
Jung
- 900 stránok
- 32 hodin čítania
Freud's 'crown prince', Carl Gustav Jung eventually abandoned Freud's theory to form his own. As Freud's influence has waned, Jung's ideas have gained currency. This biography considers his life and ideas, exploring the accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny by examining his own writings.
- 1995
Biography of controversial author Anaïs Nin, known for her erotic books and many affairs, especially the one with fellow writer Henry Miller, with information taken from Nin's extensive diaries and interviews with family, friends, and enemies
- 1990
Simone de Beauvoir
- 718 stránok
- 26 hodin čítania
This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive."--The Atlantic. 16-page photographic insert.
- 1978
