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We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays

Hazzard, Shirley
Olubas, Brigitta

Hardcover

Literary FiguresLetters & EssaysGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0231173261
ISBN13: 9780231173261
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 5 2016
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate her award-winning fiction and expand the intellectual registers in which her writings work.

Hazzard writes about her employment at the United Nations and the institution's manifold failings. She shares her personal experience with the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bombing and the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. She speaks to the decline of the hero as a public figure in Western literature and affirms the ongoing power of fiction to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite--or maybe because of--the world's disheartening realities. Cementing Hazzard's place as one of the twentieth century's sharpest and most versatile thinkers, this collection also encapsulates for readers the critical events defining postwar letters, thought, and politics.

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