Getting Personal: Selected EssaysHarper Collins, 2004 M11 3 - 416 páginas From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate's career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply meditative, and self-revelatory, with his characteristic candor and curmudgeonly charm, he explores himself, his life, his family, his religion, and his friends. |
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Página ix
... don't go far enough in their con- fessions ; they myopically fudge the details , the close nitty - gritty of self - observation . I am endlessly interested in the wormy thoughts and regrets and excuses and expla- nations that people ...
... don't go far enough in their con- fessions ; they myopically fudge the details , the close nitty - gritty of self - observation . I am endlessly interested in the wormy thoughts and regrets and excuses and expla- nations that people ...
Página x
... don't you make the effort to do it always ? " I don't know . It goes against the grain to take myself or the art of prose so seriously ; Flaubert's le mot juste makes me want to gig- gle . I believe in the aesthetically impure as an ...
... don't you make the effort to do it always ? " I don't know . It goes against the grain to take myself or the art of prose so seriously ; Flaubert's le mot juste makes me want to gig- gle . I believe in the aesthetically impure as an ...
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... Don't be afraid to tell the truth . " " Yes ! it's about this man named Jean Valjean who ... " and I proceeded to tell half the plot - no doubt getting the order confused , but still close enough to the orig- inal to give this old war ...
... Don't be afraid to tell the truth . " " Yes ! it's about this man named Jean Valjean who ... " and I proceeded to tell half the plot - no doubt getting the order confused , but still close enough to the orig- inal to give this old war ...
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... don't have a tongue ? " We kids , hating her for humiliating our father in front of us , would nevertheless snicker at his strangeness ; and he would frown at us with a ferocious look of being betrayed by the mob , that Et tu Brute ...
... don't have a tongue ? " We kids , hating her for humiliating our father in front of us , would nevertheless snicker at his strangeness ; and he would frown at us with a ferocious look of being betrayed by the mob , that Et tu Brute ...
Página 12
... don't know . Why are you asking me all these stupid questions ? And hold still . " " Am I allowed to look out the window ? " " No. " " Can I talk ? I can talk at least . " " Only if I'm not working on your lips . " My brother frowned ...
... don't know . Why are you asking me all these stupid questions ? And hold still . " " Am I allowed to look out the window ? " " No. " " Can I talk ? I can talk at least . " " Only if I'm not working on your lips . " My brother frowned ...
Contenido
XXIV | 167 |
XXV | 187 |
XXVI | 218 |
XXVIII | 259 |
XXIX | 261 |
XXX | 278 |
XXXII | 286 |
XXXIII | 300 |
XII | 89 |
XIII | 93 |
XIV | 117 |
XVI | 128 |
XVII | 131 |
XVIII | 140 |
XX | 155 |
XXI | 157 |
XXIII | 165 |
XXXV | 309 |
XXXVI | 314 |
XXXVIII | 323 |
XXXIX | 325 |
XL | 333 |
XLI | 337 |
XLII | 356 |
XLIII | 395 |
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