The Position of Spoons

Resumen del libro

From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her including a letter to her dying mother and to an absent friend. This volume illuminates and celebrates a rich and varied intellectual inheritance and reflects on how it has enriched the author's own work. Taking in questions of mortality, language, gender, place, consumerism and everyday living, the acclaimed novelist invites her reader behind the curtain of a creative life, in which the position of the spoon is always changing'.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Deborah Levyx{0026}lt;/B (Johannesburgo, 1959) es novelista, dramaturga y poeta británica. Es autora de siete novelas: x{0026}lt;I Beautiful Mutantsx{0026}lt;/I (1986), x{0026}lt;I Swallowing Geographyx{0026}lt;/I (1993), x{0026}lt;I The Unloved x{0026}lt;/I (1994), x{0026}lt;I Billy x{0026}amp; Girlx{0026}lt;/I (1996), x{0026}lt;I Nadando a casa x{0026}lt;/I (2015), x{0026}lt;I Leche calientex{0026}lt;/I (2018) y x{0026}lt;I El hombre que lo vio todox{0026}lt;/I , de próxima publicación en Literatura Random House. x{0026}lt;I Nadando a casax{0026}lt;/I fue finalista del Man Booker Prize y del Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize en 2012, y x{0026}lt;I Leche calientex{0026}lt;/I fue seleccionada para el Man Booker Prize y el Goldsmiths Prize en 2016. Deborah Levy es también autora de una colección de cuentos, x{0026}lt;I Black Vodkax{0026}lt;/I (2013), finalista del BBC International Short Story Award y del Frank Ox{0026} x02019;Connor International Short Story Award. Haescrito para la Royal Shakespeare Company y para la BBC. x{0026}lt;I Cosas que no quiero saber x{0026}lt;/I (2020), x{0026}lt;I El coste de vivirx{0026}lt;/I (2020) y x{0026}lt;I Una casa propia x{0026}lt;/I (2022) forman su autobiografía en construcción . Los dos primeros volúmenes recibieron el Premio Fémina Étranger.x{0026}lt;/P