El coste de vivir: Autobiografia en construccion / The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Deborah Levy

El coste de vivir: Autobiografia en construccion / The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
22 October 2019
Pages
160
ISBN
9788439735717

El coste de vivir: Autobiografia en construccion / The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Deborah Levy

?Que quiere decir ser libre como mujer o como artista? ?Y cual es el precio de esta libertad?

El coste de vivir es la segunda parte de la poderosa autobiografia en construccion de Deborah Levy.

Deborah Levy empieza a escribir este libro cuando, con cincuenta anos, se ve forzada a reinventarse: su matrimonio ha terminado, sus ingresos escasean, su madre se esta muriendo y sus hijas empiezan a abandonar el nido. En un momento en que la vida tendria que volverse placida e imperturbable, Levy decide abrazar el caos y la inestabilidad a cambio de recuperar, oculto bajo capas y capas de resignacion, un nombre propio.

A traves de un dialogo con intelectuales como Marguerite Duras o Simone de Beauvoir, y mediante recuerdos que evoca con elocuencia, sensibilidad y un delicioso sentido del humor, Levy se pregunta cual es ese papel ficticio escrito por hombres e interpretado por mujeres al que llamamos feminidad . Cualquiera que haya luchado por ser libre y por construir una vida propia sabe que es precisamente eso: una lucha constante en la que se paga un coste por vivir.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The bestselling modern manifesto on the politics of womanhood from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home.

A New York Times Notable Book

A New York Public Library Best Nonfiction Book of 2018

?What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?

This vibrant memoir, a portrait of contemporary womanhood in flux, is an urgent quest to find an unwritten major female character who can exist more easily in the world. Levy considers what it means to live with meaning, value, and pleasure, to seize the ultimate freedom of writing our own lives, and reflects on the work of such artists and thinkers as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch, and Emily Dickinson.

The Cost of Living, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction, is crucial testimony, as distinctive, witty, complex, and original as Levy’s acclaimed novels.

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