Erica Wagnerová je americká autorka a kritička, která se ve své tvorbě zaměřuje na pronikavé zkoumání lidské psychiky a vztahů. Její styl je charakteristický precizním jazykem a schopností vtáhnout čtenáře do nitra postav, kde odhaluje složité motivace a skryté touhy. Prostřednictvím svých děl se často zabývá tématy paměti, identity a dopadu minulosti na přítomnost. Wagnerová přináší do literárního světa jedinečný pohled na hlubiny lidské zkušenosti.
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A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2017His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic feat of human engineering after his father's tragic death. It has stood for more than 130 years and is now as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet, as recognisable as the bridge is, its builder is too often forgotten. The Chief Engineer is a brilliant examination of the life of one of America's most distinguished engineers. Roebling's experience as an engineer building bridges in the Union Army during the civil War has never before been documented, and played a central role in the bridge that links Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge took fourteen dramatic years to complete, and the personal story that lay behind that construction is told here for the first time. The Chief Engineer is an engaging portrait of a brilliant and driven man, and of the era in which he lived. Meticulously researched, and written with revealing archival material only recently uncovered, including Washington Roebling's own memoir that was previously thought to be lost to history, in The Chief Engineer Erica Wagner relates the fascinating history of the bridge and its maker.
Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute
one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last
century. Few suspected that Ted Hughes had been at work, for a quarter of a
century, on a cycle of poems addressed almost entirely to his first wife, the
American poet Sylvia Plath. schovat popis
Eliot - and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history.
'Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.' Susan Hill, Spectator Books of the
Year'Compelling ...
The exploration of Ted Hughes's complex relationship with Sylvia Plath unfolds through Erica Wagner's analysis of Birthday Letters, a collection of poems written over twenty-five years. Wagner delves into the interplay between their lives and writings, offering insightful commentary that connects Hughes's poems to Plath's own work. This examination reveals the emotional and creative dynamics of their marriage, while providing a nuanced understanding of the impact their relationship had on their literary legacies.
Her father's stories were of her mother's beauty, their early love - tales
stopping short of tragedy. Tom was raised by his mother, travelling from one
place to another, never settling, his only stability the stories she told him
- stories of shapeshifters, danger, impossible love.
