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Wish I Was Here de M. John Harrison

Wish I Was Here

Autor M. John Harrison
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2025

Observăm cum un caiet de note devine o ancoră pentru o existență care altfel s-ar fi putut evapora: „O notă, sau nu s-a întâmplat niciodată”. În Wish I Was Here, M. John Harrison nu ne oferă o autobiografie liniară, ci un „anti-memoriu” sclipitor, construit din fragmentele a patru decenii de observații meticuloase. Este o invitație în mintea unui stilist desăvârșit care a refuzat mereu să fie înregimentat într-un singur gen literar, pendulând între realismul britanic cel mai crud și speculația metafizică. Remarcăm cu interes cum autorul își urmărește propria urmă prin peisajele industriale din Midlands și prin efervescența Londrei contraculturale, întrebându-se dacă cel care a scris acele note mai este aceeași persoană cu cel care le citește astăzi. În aceeași familie cu Efforts at Truth de Nicholas Mosley, acest volum adaugă o dimensiune aproape detectivistică procesului de auto-analiză, transformând biografia într-un mister ce trebuie dezlegat prin text. Dacă în Light sau Empty Space autorul explora limitele universului și ale fizicii, aici explorează limitele propriei prezențe. Notăm că stilul este unul laconis, plin de un duh tăios, care funcționează simultan ca o confesiune intimă și ca un manual de scriere creativă de o strălucire rară. Față de The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, unde atmosfera era una de neliniște subtilă, în acest volum M. John Harrison este mai vulnerabil, dar la fel de precis în frazare, demonstrând de ce este considerat unul dintre cei mai importanți scriitori britanici contemporani.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781668074626
ISBN-10: 1668074621
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 136 x 210 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: S&S/Saga Press

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Despre autor

M. John Harrison (n. 1945) este un scriitor și critic literar englez, recunoscut pentru stilul său inconfundabil și pentru refuzul de a se conforma convențiilor de gen. Cariera sa vastă cuprinde de la secvența fantasy Viriconium până la capodopere de science fiction precum trilogia Kefahuchi Tract. Laureat al premiului Goldsmiths pentru The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, Harrison este admirat de critici și colegi de breaslă pentru precizia frazei și imaginația sa neliniștitoare, fiind considerat un „contrarian al genurilor” care redefinește constant limitele literaturii contemporane.

Notă biografică

M. John Harrison is the author of, among others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, Signs of Life, Light and Wish I Was Here. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the James Tiptree Jr Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.

Descriere scurtă

BOOK OF THE YEAR IN GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, GRANTA AND TLS'This dazzling anti-memoir is nothing less than a portrait of a writer with a beautiful mind. Harrison turns over what it takes to simultaneously be present to everyday life and imaginative flight. A masterpiece' Deborah Levy, Books of the Year 2023, Observer'Is M John Harrison the best writer at work today? He's certainly among the deftest and most original, producing immaculately odd sentences in any genre he chooses' Olivia Laing, Summer Pick of 2023, Guardian'Wish I Was Here by M John Harrison is a revival of the writer's memoir ... slippery and fascinating as any of his fiction' Jonathan Coe, Summer Pick of 2023, Guardian'Unusual and impressive, Wish I Was Here is also a writing manual of brilliance' Sunday TimesM. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, magical and literary realism. But is there even an M. John Harrison and where do we find him?This is the question the author asks in this memoir-as-mystery, turning for clues to forty years of notebooking: 'A note or it never happened. A note or you never looked.'Are these notebooks, or 'nowtbooks', records of failed presence? How do they shine light on a childhood in the industrial Midlands, a portrait of the young artist in countercultural London, on an adulthood of restless escape into hill and moorland landscapes? And do they tell us anything about the writing of the books, each one so different from the last that it might have been written by another version of the author?With aphoristic daring and laconic wit, this anti-memoir will fascinate you and delight you. It confirms M. John Harrison still further in his status as the most original British writer of his generation.

Recenzii

Infectiously engaging, packed with rueful wisdom and a distinctive sense of mischief
One of the best writers currently at work in English
Hilarious and haunting
'Harrison is the shape-shifting master of absent and elusive things, many of them absent and eluding in Barnes and the Peak District. In this mesmerising book, the author - or rather his style - goes in search of what may have been his memories of different versions of his life. The result is an enchantment of instability, usually ungraspable, always intense.'
A deep dive into the back-and-forth, up-down, sideways mind of a true genius. An immersive pleasure and a literary adventure
He is one of the very great writers alive today
An extraordinary writer and an extraordinary book. I don't know how to describe it, which is to say that I'll read it again, and again
M. John Harrison puts to work a writerly consciousness and imaginativeness like no other. Wish I Was Here doesn't reinvent memoir; it quietly constructs an entire new ballpark
I love this book, even if I don't know how to describe it. Is it a memoir? Is it a handbook for writers? As always with M John Harrison, you're never quite sure what you're reading or where it will take you next. There are only a few certainties: that it will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed
Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece. I don't use that word lightly: I've not loved a book as much as this for years. Pleating together the quotidian and fantastic, the material and ineffable, it is at once a beguiling autobiography and a sustained interrogation of genre, craft, and the uses of history, and a perfect instantiation of what it is to write and what it is to live. Formally inventive, constantly surprising, M John Harrison has written an archaeology of fragments that shivers with wholeness. It's exquisite
What Wish I Was Here does triumphantly is to capture the feeling of living in the 21st century with all its anxieties ... wondrous and self-defining and defiant
M. John Harrison, the best British writer you've never heard of, operates on the margins. Unusual and impressive, Wish I Was Here is also a writing manual of brilliance'
This book is old school experiment, several unrelated episodes from a literary reality show, a kind of negative biography with a big author-shaped hole in the middle waiting for the reader to fill based on all the evidence around it. It's also one of the best books I've read so far this year
This is one of the most original books about writing that I have read, in part because Harrison is as profound about the art as he is helpful on the craft ... destabilising, witty, exhilarating - an important contribution to the genre's evolution
So wholly original that a label doesn't do it justice ... Wish I Was Here will leave you bewildered
Harrison captures the stultifying and and generative landscape of post-industrial England better than anyone else
It's extraordinary. Profound, hilarious, precise, vagrant and speculative. And always intensely good company. The sort of book that makes writing seem possible again. (Or is it impossible?)
M. John Harrison's 'anti-memoir' is a masterpiece. Broad in scope and beautifully written, this unconventional autobiography contains some of the best advice struggling writers will ever receive
Delightfully oddball and original
A stand-out playful reframing of the memoir form
Read it. You will want to press it on others like a mildly deranged Ancient Mariner haranguing those poor wedding guests as they try to go about their business