The Positions of Spoons

Resumen del libro

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.

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