Tag: Deborah Levy

September 16, 2019

The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy — book review

For readers in want of an incisive and creative account of life in East Germany, I strongly recommend picking up something by Christa Wolf. I think that from now on I might stick to Deborah Levy‘s non-fiction. While I’m glad to see that many of my friends and other readers were able to enjoy this…
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February 7, 2019

THINGS I DON’T WANT TO KNOW : BOOK REVIEW

Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing by Deborah Levy ★★★✰✰ 3 of 5 stars In Things I Don’t Want to Know Deborah Levy revists her childhood in South Africa in order to better understand her place in the present. She herself admits that her writing favours form > matter and so in this…
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3 STARS, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, British author, Deborah Levy, england, ESSAYS, female authors, feminism, language, MEMOIR, Nonfiction, published in 2013, READ IN 2019, south africa, Things I Don’t Want to Know, Things I Don’t Want to Know: On Writing, writing about writing