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Feel Free de Zadie Smith

Feel Free

Autor Zadie Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 feb 2019

Evoluția eseisticii contemporane reflectă o tranziție necesară de la critica academică rigidă către o formă de jurnalism literar hibrid, capabil să analizeze cultura pop cu aceeași rigoare aplicată filozofiei. Feel Free marchează apogeul acestei transformări, confirmând statutul lui Zadie Smith de observator critic esențial al secolului XXI. Recomandăm acest volum nu doar pentru eleganța stilistică, ci pentru capacitatea rară de a pune în dialog teme aparent divergente: de la arhitectura rețelelor sociale, descrise ca un portret crud al umanității captive, până la rolul vital al bibliotecilor publice ca spații de libertate non-comercială. Structura cărții, organizată în cinci secțiuni distincte, ghidează cititorul prin galeriile de artă, sălile de cinema și pe rafturile bibliotecilor personale ale autoarei. Cei familiarizați cu volumul anterior, Changing My Mind, vor aprecia modul în care acest nou corpus de eseuri aprofundează interesele sale pentru cinema și literatură, dar introduce o notă de urgență politică și socială mai pronunțată. În timp ce Changing My Mind se concentra pe formarea unei identități intelectuale, Feel Free chestionează responsabilitatea colectivă în fața crizelor globale, precum încălzirea globală, păstrând în același timp un ton ironic și incisiv. În contextul operei sale, volumul se situează între rigoarea analitică a eseurilor timpurii și maturitatea narativă din The Fraud, demonstrând că non-ficțiunea lui Smith este la fel de vibrantă ca proza sa premiată. Credem că această colecție reușește să transforme actul criticii într-o experiență personală, aproape intimă, fără a sacrifica profunzimea intelectuală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780143110255
ISBN-10: 014311025X
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 138 x 213 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorul pasionat de eseistică și critică culturală, acest volum oferă o perspectivă lucidă asupra lumii moderne. Veți câștiga o înțelegere mai profundă a intersecției dintre politică, artă și viața cotidiană. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru studenții de literatură și jurnalism, dar și pentru oricine dorește să exploreze mecanismele culturii contemporane prin ochii uneia dintre cele mai relevante voci literare actuale.

Despre autor

Zadie Smith este o romancieră, eseistă și autoare de proză scurtă britanică, recunoscută internațional încă de la debutul său spectaculos cu White Teeth în anul 2000. Membră a Royal Society of Literature și profesor titular la facultatea de scriere creativă a New York University, Smith s-a impus ca o figură centrală a literaturii contemporane. Opera sa explorează teme precum identitatea multiculturală, postcolonialismul și etica, fiind distinsă cu numeroase premii, inclusiv National Book Critics Circle Award pentru critică, fapt ce subliniază polivalența sa extraordinară ca scriitor de ficțiune și non-ficțiune.

Descriere scurtă

Winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel almost two decades ago, Zadie Smith has established herself not just as one of the world's preeminent fiction writers, but also a brilliant and singular essayist. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books on a range of subjects, and each piece of hers is a literary event in its own right. Arranged into five sections--In the World, In the Audience, In the Gallery, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free--this new collection poses questions we immediately recognize. What is The Social Network--and Facebook itself--really about? "It's a cruel portrait of us: 500 million sentient people entrapped in the recent careless thoughts of a Harvard sophomore." Why do we love libraries? "Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay." What will we tell our granddaughters about our collective failure to address global warming? "So I might say to her, look: the thing you have to appreciate is that we'd just been through a century of relativism and deconstruction, in which we were informed that most of our fondest-held principles were either uncertain or simple wishful thinking, and in many areas of our lives we had already been asked to accept that nothing is essential and everything changes--and this had taken the fight out of us somewhat." Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays, such as, "Joy," and, "Find Your Beach," Feel Free offers a survey of important recent events in culture and politics, as well as Smith's own life. Equally at home in the world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive--and never any less than perfect company. This is literary journalism at its zenith.

Notă biografică

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. White Teeth won multiple literary awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Recenzii

A writer so insistent on the possibility of imaginative connection, so generous and curious with regard to her readers
Refreshingly insightful on any number of topics, from Martin Buber to Justin Bieber...Reviewing a book by her countryman Geoff Dyer, [Smith] writes that she is most struck by 'his tone. Its simplicity, its classlessness, its accessibility and yet its erudition-the combination is a trick few British writers ever pull off.' Without question, Smith is one of them
Brims with a wide-ranging enthusiasm...[Smith's] open-mindedness gives the whole of Feel Free a lively, game-for-anything spirit...Enchanting
Fascinating stuff!
Charmingly digressive...Smith sets an unpretentious tone...As the pages pass, there's a palpable absence of self-certainty. In its place are ample reserves of curiosity and empathy
The joy of this collection is Smith's straightforward phrasing, often summing up her thesis with a single thoughtful sentence. Her words are not overwritten; they do not distract from her purpose, nor are they a barrier to her argument; they are welcoming. I found myself re-reading the brightest of these sentences over and again, marveling at her humor and her brevity
The strongest essays showcase Smith's skills as an art, literary and cultural critic...One of the pleasures of reading Feel Free is in savoring Smith's joy when she writes about formative cultural experiences. As with any book of opinions, Feel Free makes claims one might dispute...But a collection of essays that doesn't prompt disagreements would be a dull book, and Feel Free is anything but dull
Getting In and Out' is the kind of essay that sheds light on a whole career, and it would justify this collection even if Feel Free didn't include a handful of more perfectly crafted pieces of prose
For years, [Smith] has been one of the most important literary journalists we have. This is why
Smith writes [ . . . ] with such infectious zeal and engaging accessibility that it makes you want to turn up at her house and demand tutoring
Publisher's Description: Dazzlingly insightful, explosively funny and ever-timely, essential writer Zadie Smith is back with a second unmissable collection of essays, following up her critically acclaimed collection, Changing My Mind
It's good to know that, while my body rusts, I can keep my mind stretched and nimble by reading Zadie Smith
A preturnaturally gifted writer with a voice that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time