Everybody

Resumen del libro

The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, she grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X.

Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Everybody is an examination of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

Biografía del autor

Olivia Laing es una aclamada crítica y escritora. Escribe sobre arte y cultura para The Guardian, el Financial Times y The New York Times, entre muchos otros medios, y ha escrito ensayos para los catálogos de varios artistas contemporáneos, como Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Derek Jarman, Wolfgang Tillmans y Chantal Joffe.<br> Asimismo, es autora de siete libros, incluidos To the River, El viaje a Echo Spring, La ciudad solitaria y Todos los cuerpos. Su primera novela, Crudo, un relato en tiempo real del turbulento verano de 2017, se situó entre los diez libros más vendidos de la lista de The Sunday Times y ganó el James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Sus libros se han traducido a veintiún idiomas. <br> Es socia de la Royal Society of Literature y en 2018 fue galardonada con el Windham-Campbell Prize por su obra de ensayo.<br> Vive en Suffolk.