Deborah Levy

El cierre de la Autobiografía en construcción de una Deborah Levy que logra su habitación propia. Deborah Levy imagina una casa en una latitud cálida, cerca de un lago o de un mar. Allí hay una chimenea y un mayordomo que atiende sus deseos, hasta el de discutir. Pero Levy en realidad esta en Londres, no tiene dinero para construir el hogar que imagina, su apartamento es minusculo y lo mas parecido a un jardin en su casa es un banano al que entrega los cuidados que sus hijas ya no necesitan. La menor ha abandonado el nido, y Levy, a sus cincuenta y nueve años, esta lista para afrontar una nueva etapa en su vida. Asi, nos lleva desde Nueva York a Bombay, pasando por Paris y Berlin, mientras teje una estimulante y audaz reflexion sobre el significado del hogar y de los espectros que lo acechan. Entretejiendo el pasado y el presente, lo personal y lo politico, y convocando a Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Georgia OKeeffe o Celine Schiamma, la autora indaga en el significado de la feminidad y de la propiedad. A traves de sus recuerdos hace inventario de sus posesiones reales e imaginarias y cuestiona nuestra forma de entender el valor de la vida intelectual y cotidiana de la mujer. Despues de Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, esta obra es la culminacion de una autobiografia escrita en el fragor de una vida que no esta solamente protagonizada por Levy, sino por todas las mujeres que la sostienen con una red invisible.Reseñas: La voz imprevisible, tierna, incisiva, entristecida y entusiasta de la Levy biografa ofrece un festin literario.Gonzalo Torne, El Cultural Por supuesto, Levy es feminista, su autobiografia desvela no solo una postura como mujer, tambien esa vision impregna otros temas como la migracion, el imperialismo, el racismo o el amor. Estos textos segun Levy tenian que narrar dos aspectos que nunca coexisten: el poder de los hombres y la vulnerabilidad que se permite la mujer al escribir. Ariana Basciani, The Objective Sobre Cosas que no quiero saber:Una narracion vivaz y brillante sobre como los detalles mas inocentes de la vida personal de una escritora pueden alcanzar el poder en la ficcion.The New York Times Book Review Un relato vivido y sorprendente de la vida de la escritora, que feminiza y personaliza las contundentes a afirmaciones de Orwell.The Spectator Sobre El coste de vivir:Derrocha en el segundo tomo de su autobiografia tanto hallazgos expresivos como verdades acendradas [...] en un tapiz algo descosido que sin embargo se lee con delectacion y donde rubrica sobre todo el regreso a los planteamientos de Simone de Beauvoir en El segundo sexo; esto es, vuelve a admitir la dificultad desquiciante de conjugar pareja, maternidad e independencia intelectual.El PeriodicoEl coste de vivir es el precio que debe pagar una mujer para desmontar un hogar en el que ya no se siente como en casa. Para Levy, este acto radical da inicio a la busqueda de una nueva vida que resulta inseparable de la busqueda de una nueva narrativa.The Times

El cierre de la Autobiografía en construcción de una Deborah Levy que logra su habitación propia.Deborah Levy imagina una casa en una latitud cálida, cerca de un lago o de un mar. Allí hay una chimenea y un mayordomo que atiende sus deseos, hasta el de discutir. Pero Levy en realidad esta en Londres, no tiene dinero para construir el hogar que imagina, su apartamento es minusculo y lo mas parecido a un jardin en su casa es un banano al que entrega los cuidados que sus hijas ya no necesitan. La menor ha abandonado el nido, y Levy, a sus cincuenta y nueve años, esta lista para afrontar una nueva etapa en su vida. Asi, nos lleva desde Nueva York a Bombay, pasando por Paris y Berlin, mientras teje una estimulante y audaz reflexion sobre el significado del hogar y de los espectros que lo acechan.Entretejiendo el pasado y el presente, lo personal y lo politico, y convocando a Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Georgia OKeeffe o Celine Schiamma, la autora indaga en el significado de la feminidad y de la propiedad. A traves de sus recuerdos hace inventario de sus posesiones reales e imaginarias y cuestiona nuestra forma de entender el valor de la vida intelectual y cotidiana de la mujer. Despues de Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, esta obra es la culminacion de una autobiografia escrita en el fragor de una vida que no esta solamente protagonizada por Levy, sino por todas las mujeres que la sostienen con una red invisible.Reseñas:La voz imprevisible, tierna, incisiva, entristecida y entusiasta de la Levy biografa ofrece un festin literario.Gonzalo Torne, El CulturalPor supuesto, Levy es feminista, su autobiografia desvela no solo una postura como mujer, tambien esa vision impregna otros temas como la migracion, el imperialismo, el racismo o el amor. Estos textos segun Levy tenian que narrar dos aspectos que nunca coexisten: el poder de los hombres y la vulnerabilidad que se permite la mujer al escribir. Ariana Basciani,The ObjectiveSobre Cosas que no quiero saber:Una narracion vivaz y brillante sobre como los detalles mas inocentes de la vida personal de una escritora pueden alcanzar el poder en la ficcion.The New York Times Book ReviewUn relato vivido y sorprendente de la vida de la escritora, que feminiza y personaliza las contundentes a afirmaciones de Orwell.The SpectatorSobre El coste de vivir:Derrocha en el segundo tomo de su autobiografia tanto hallazgos expresivos como verdades acendradas [...] en un tapiz algo descosido que sin embargo se lee con delectacion y donde rubrica sobre todo el regreso a los planteamientos de Simone de Beauvoir en El segundo sexo; esto es, vuelve a admitir la dificultad desquiciante de conjugar pareja, maternidad e independencia intelectual.El PeriodicoEl coste de vivir es el precio que debe pagar una mujer para desmontar un hogar en el que ya no se siente como en casa. Para Levy, este acto radical da inicio a la busqueda de una nueva vida que resulta inseparable de la busqueda de una nueva narrativa.The Times

La nuevanovela de Deborah Levy,finalista del Premio Booker, y laaclamadaautora de Elhombre que loviotodo y Elcoste devivir.«Lafuerza de Levy essuoriginalidad depensamiento yexpresión».Jeanette Winter

The Unloved is a hypnotising novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted writer Deborah Levy. A group of hedonistic West European tourists gather to celebrate Christmas in a remote French chateau. Then an Englishwoman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she knows who did it. The subsequent inquiry into the death proves to be more of an investigation into the nature of love, insatiable rage and sadistic desire. The Unloved offers a bold and revealing look at some of the events that shaped European and African history, and the perils of a future founded on concealed truth. Praise for Deborah Levy: "Deborah Levy's storytelling is allusive, elliptical and disturbing. Her touch is gentle, often funny and always acute". (Independent). "One of the few contemporary British writers comfortable on a world stage". (New Statesman). "An exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield". (Sunday Times). "A brave and brilliant book". (Independent on The Unloved). Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she is the author of numerous books, including the essay 'Things I Don't Want to Know' and the early novels Swallowing Geography and Beautiful Mutants. Her novel Swimming Home was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards and 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize.

Finalista do Man Booker Prize e eleito livro do ano pelo New York Times Book Review, Nadando de volta para casa, da britanica Deborah Levy, revela como os segredos mais devastadores so aqueles guardados de nos mesmos. Com uma trama eliptica e perturbadora, o livro relata o que seria a idilica viagem de um poeta britanico a Riviera Francesa, com amigos e familia, ate uma enigmatica jovem aparecer nua, na piscina da casa.Kitty Finch e uma jovem submetida a tratamentos psiquiatricos severos, contra sua vontade, e necessita de remedios antidepressivos para se manter saudavel. Incomodada com a sensaço de anestesia, ela abandona a medicaço para poder "sentir" melhor as emoçes. Kitty se autointitula botanica, colhe plantas e flores e demonstra certo conhecimento nessa ciencia. Psicologicamente perturbada, Kitty Finch persegue Joe, seu autor favorito, com a intenço de lhe entregar um poema de sua autoria, no qual ela se declara e pede ajuda ao poeta. Toda a narrativa dança em torno do tenso momento em que Joe expe sua opinio sobre a obra da jovem e cede aos seus encantos, levando a historia a um desfecho surpreendente.Com uma narrativa inovadora, Levy consegue analisar em profundidade os anseios e as frustraçes dos seus personagens, levando o leitor a uma sensaço de intimidade e pertencimento em relaço a historia. O enredo nos convida a esmiuçar os devaneios alucinados de Kitty sobre Joe, a logica e a frieza de Isabel, que no ve mais esperança em seu casamento com o escritor, e as incertezas e o desanimo que abalam essas relaçes.

As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joes wife allow her to remain? Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. Deborah Levys writing combines linguistic virtuosity, technical brilliance and a strong sense of what it means to be alive. Swimming Home represents a new direction for a major writer. In this book, the wildness and the danger are all the more powerful for resting just beneath the surface. With its biting humour and immediate appeal, it wears its darkness lightly. Swimming Home was also shortlisted for the New York Times Notable Book of 2012 and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and National Book Awards Author of the Year 2012

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale of mothers and daughters from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home.Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor. It was tucked under my arm and slid out of its black rubber sheath, landing screen-side down. The digital page shattered. Apparently there''s a man in the next flyblown town who mends computers. He could send off for a new screen, which would take a month to arrive. Will I still be here in a month?My mother is sleeping under a mosquito net in the next room. Soon she will wake up and shout, ''Sofia, get me a glass of water'', and I will get her water and it will be the wrong sort of water. And then after a while I will leave her and return to gaze at the shattered starfield of my screen.Two women arrive in a Spanish village - a dreamlike place caught between the desert and the ocean - seeking medical advice and salvation. One of the strangers suffers from a mysterious illness: spontaneous paralysis confines her to a wheelchair, her legs unusable. The other, her daughter Sofia, has spent years playing the reluctant detective in this mystery, struggling to understand her mother''s illness.Surrounded by the oppressive desert heat and the mesmerising figures who move through it, Sofia waits while her mother undergoes the strange programme of treatments invented by Dr Gomez. Searching for a cure to a defiant and quite possibly imagined disease, ever more entangled in the seductive, mercurial games of those around her, Sofia finally comes to confront and reconcile the disparate fragments of her identity.Hot Milk is a labyrinth of violent desires, primal impulses, and surreally persuasive internal logic. Examining female rage and sexuality, Deborah Levy''s dazzling new novel explores the strange and monstrous nature of motherhood, testing the bonds of parent and child to breaking point.

Man Booker Prize shortlisted Deborah Levy whips up a storm of romance and slapstick, of heavenly and earthly delights, in this dystopian philosophical poem about individualfreedom and the search for

Kissing you is like new paint and old pain. It is like coffee and car alarms and a dim stairway and a stain and its like smoke. (Placing a Call) How does love change us? And how do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions. In Vienna, an icy woman seduces a broken man; in London gardens, birds sing in computer start-up sounds; in ad-land, a sleek copywriter becomes a kind of shaman. These are twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humour and curiosity, stories about what it means to live and love, together and alone.

Refrescante como un baño en la piscina. Deborah Levy monta una tela de araña de resentimiento, tensiones y simpatías. Sorprende al lector una y otra vez

Un divorce forcément douloureux, une grande maison victorienne troquée contre un appartement en haut d'une colline dans le nord de Londres, deux filles à élever et des factures qui s'accumulent... De

Electrifying and audacious, an unmissable new novel about old and new Europe, old and new love, from the twice-Man Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home'The man who had nearly run me over had touched my hair, as if he were touching a statue or something without a heartbeat...'In 1988 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is apparently fine; he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. They have sex then break up, but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road.Saul leaves to study in communist East Berlin, two months before the Wall comes down. There he will encounter - significantly - both his assigned translator and his translator's sister, who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city. He will fall in love and brood upon his difficult, authoritarian father. And he will befriend a hippy, Rainer, who may or may not be a Stasi agent, but will certainly return to haunt him in middle age.Slipping slyly between time zones and leaving a spiralling trail, Deborah Levy's electrifying The Man Who Saw Everything examines what we see and what we fail to see, the grave crime of carelessness, the weight of history and our ruinous attempts to shrug it off.'Levy writes on the high wire, unfalteringly' Marina Warner

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe The Times_________________________________ Its like this, Saul Adler. No, its like this, Jennifer Moreau. In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West. But in the GDR he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again . . . _________________________________A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing. Thoroughly gripping Sunday Telegraph Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the page Independent Levy splices time in artfully believable, mesmerizing strokes Lambda Literary Skewering totalitarianism - from the state, to the family, to the strictures of the

A stunning early novel by the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home, Deborah Levy. Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples._________________________________An exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield Sunday Times Levy is a brilliant writer Telegraph Levys strength is her originality of thought and expression Jeanette Winterson

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!From beloved powerhouse author Katherine Applegate comes The One and Only Ruby, starring the adorable baby elephant from the Newbery Medal-winning modern classic The One and Only Ivan and its bestselling sequel, The One and Only Bob.Rubys story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Rubys caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob.

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From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'. 'A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life' The Evening Standard_________________________________'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally, her physical property and possessions, and then everything else she valued, though it might not be valued by society.What might she claim, own, discard and bequeath? Or is she the real estate, owned by patriarchy? In this sense, Real Estate is a tricky business. We rent it and buy it, sell and inherit it - but we must also knock it down.'Following the critical acclaim of Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it. _________________________________'Real Estate is a book to dive into.Come on in, the water's lovely' The Daily Telegraph'Her reflections on domesticity, freedom and romance are so beautiful, I found myself underlining multiple sentences a page. Wry, warm and uplifting, it's a book I'll return to again and again' Stylist'[Levy's living autobiography series is] a glittering triple echo of books that are as much philosophical discourse as a manifesto for living and writing' Financial Times

From twice Booker shortlisted author Deborah Levy a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer In The Position of Spoons Deborah Levy invites the reader into the interiors of her world sharing her most intimate thoughts and experiences as she traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her From Marguerite Duras to Colette and Ballard and from Lee Miller to Francesca Woodman and Paula Rego we can relish here the richness of their work and in turn the richness of the author s own Each page draws upon Levy s life in exalting ways encapsulating the wonderful precision and astonishing depth of her writing as she seamlessly shifts between and meditates on questions of mortality language suburbia gender consumerism and the poetics of every day living From the child born in South Africa to her teenage years in Britain to her travels across the world as a young woman each page is a beautiful tender composition of the questioning self a portrait of Deborah Levy s writing life and intellectual vitality in all of its dimensions