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In "The Position of Spoons," Deborah Levy shares intimate reflections on her life and the literary muses that have influenced her. Through meditations on mortality, language, and gender, she offers a rich exploration of her experiences from South Africa to Britain, showcasing her profound writing and intellectual vitality.

In this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewhere in England. Girl spends much of her time trying to find their mother, going to strangers' doors and addressing whatever Prozac woman who answers as "Mom." Billy spends his time fantasizing a future in which he will be famous, perhaps in the United States as a movie star, or as a psychiatrist, or as a doctor to blondes with breast enlargements, or as the author of "Billy England's Book of Pain." Together they both support and torture each other, barely able to remember their pasts but intent on forging a future that will bring them happiness and reunite them with the ever-elusive Mom. Billy and Girl are every boy and girl reeling from the pain of their childhoods, forgetting what they need to forget, inventing worlds they think will be better, but usually just prolonging nightmares as they begin to create--or so it seems--alternative personalities that will allow them to survive and conquer and punish. In the end, the reader is as bewildered as Billy and Girl--have they found Mom and a semblance of family, or are, they completely out of control and ready to explode?

In der Essaysammlung Die Position der Löffel leiht uns Deborah Levy ihren Blick. Sie betrachtet ihre Lesebiographie, die Autor*innen, die sie prägten;Colette, Marguerite Duras, Elizabeth Hardwick, Simone de Beauvoir. Mal setzt sie Sigmund Freuds Brille auf und durchschaut die Neurosen der Gäste eines Wiener Kaffeehauses;Hysterie, ödipale Mutterliebe, Schwindel, Sachertorte. Sie betrachtet Künstler*innen und Kunstwerke;Meret Oppenheim, Lee Miller, Francesca Woodman. Sie schreibt ein Alphabet für die innere Stimme und eins für den Todestrieb, pflückt böse Blumen in Baudelaires’ Garten und folgt dem weißen Kaninchen durch einen Tunnel von Woolwich nach Anderswo. »Ist Anderswo zwischen deinen Ohren?« Poetisch, klug, manchmal surreal und immer mit einem untrüglichen, liebevollen Blick fürs Detail. Was, wenn es eine Rolle spielt, ob der Löffel zum gekochten Ei zeigt oder davon weg? Was verraten Socken und Schuhe über ihre Träger*innen? Was, wenn es wichtig ist, wem und was wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit schenken? Die Position der Löffel ist gleichzeitig Kurzgeschichtensammlung, kritische Theorie, Poetik und persönliche Bibliotheksführung. Levy-Lesende werden überall Bekanntes aufblitzen sehen, für Noch-nicht-Levy-Lesende gibt es einen neuen Kosmos zu entdecken.

"She is a shimmering, melancholy angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He an accountant, dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone to love. A storm of romance and slapstick, of heavenly and earthly delights, in this dystopian philosophical poem about individual freedom and the search for the good life."--Back cover

A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living. In Athens, a woman named Elsa glimpses her identical double. The other woman is buying two mechanical dancing horses. Elsa spends a month in pursuit of this enigmatic twin—a search that mounts to an uncanny, erotic encounter in a summer rainstorm. Deborah Levy's August Blue is a story of split selves, wayward selves, femininities, sexualities, avatars, shadows, reflections, alter egos, and the twin poles of compassion and cruelty that exist within all of us.

Deborah Levys kühnes Debüt erzählt von Außensei­ter*innen, die rastlos und rasterlos leben und eben da­durch miteinander verbunden sind. In kurzen Passagen blickt Levy durch die Augen der schönen Mutanten auf die Welt. Sie erzählt von der russischen Exilantin Lapinski, ih­rerseits eine Sammlerin von Geschichten, von der Poetin, die am Fließband tiefgefrorene Hamburger formt, vom Nachbarn, der Lapinski eine »schamlose Cunt« nennt, von der anorektischen Anarchistin und der pyromanischen Bankerin, die einst Gemma war, und von einem Lama. In Schöne Mutanten offenbart Deborah Levy eine Welt, deren Figuren aufbrechen und sich neu zusammen­ setzen, sich gegenseitig und ihre Leser*innen abstoßen und anziehen. Roh und bezaubernd und schön und vul­gär. Eine provokative Prosa, die die Kerben, die Europa durchziehen, beschreibt und in den Bruchstellen Sonnen­blumen pflanzt. Levy schreibt mit Scharfsinn und Witz und zieht das Groteske dem Naturalistischen stets vor. Vielleicht zeigt sich erst aus der Distanz die wahre Absurdität unserer Welt, in der zu leben offenbar bedeutet, Geld auszugeben.

»Es gefällt dir, dass ich einfach nur J.K. genannt werde«, sagt sie zu ihrem Kompagnon, der von ihrer Ungebundenheit, ihrem Freiheitsdrang weiß. »Du trägst sogar im Bett Schuhe, damit du vor mir wegrennen kannst.« Bleibt man für den anderen immer fremd, ganz gleich, wie nah man sich kommt? In diesem frühen Roman von Deborah Levy ist eine junge Frau wie ihr »Namensvetter« Jack Kerouac on the road – in einer sich immer schneller drehenden, zunehmend fragmentierten Welt. »J.K. ist die Streunerin, die Pennerin, die Emigrantin, die Geflüchtete, die Deportierte, die Spaziergängerin, die umherziehende Spielerin. Manchmal wäre sie gern eine Siedlerin, aber Neugier, Trauer und Entfremdung verhindern das.« J.K. will mit leichtem Gepäck unterwegs sein, aber die Last ihrer Herkunft, der Erinnerungen wiegt schwer. Und wohin geht eigentlich diese Reise?

Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A Pandemic. A love story. From a leading thinker and writer, this final installment in a critically acclaimed series offers an exhilarating and intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it. Following the success of the previous volume, this work explores what women, both seen and unseen, possess at the end of their lives—both tangible property and intangible values often overlooked by society. It questions ownership and the impact of patriarchy on identity. Real estate becomes a complex metaphor for the lives women navigate, as they buy, sell, and inherit while also confronting what must be discarded. Levy's prose is wise, subtle, and ironic, with each sentence reflecting clarity and poise. Critics have praised her work as extraordinary and beautiful, filled with wit and sharp insights. This book promises to resonate deeply with readers, inviting them to reflect on the intricate relationship between identity, ownership, and the legacies we leave behind.

This exciting new masterpiece from Deborah Levy, longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, is a beguiling fever dream of a novel. It offers an ice-cold critique of patriarchy and the darkness of 20th-century Europe. In 1988, Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, is hit by a car on Abbey Road but appears unscathed. After a brief encounter with his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau, he leaves for communist East Berlin just months before the Wall falls. There, he meets his assigned translator and her sister, who claims to have seen a jaguar in the city. As Saul navigates love, his troubled relationship with his authoritarian father, and a friendship with a possibly dubious hippy named Rainer, he grapples with the complexities of history and memory. The narrative slips between time zones, exploring what we perceive and overlook, the consequences of carelessness, and the burdens of history. Levy's electrifying prose is described as clever and raw, presenting a dizzying tale that challenges conventions and delves into life across time and borders.

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020 Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography'. 'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer _________________________________ 'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realise we don't want to hold it together . . .' The final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography', Real Estate, is available now. _________________________________ 'I just haven't stopped reading it . . . it talks so beautifully about being a woman' Billie Piper on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs 'It is the story of every woman throughout history who has expended her love and labour on making a home that turns out to serve the needs of everyone except herself. Wonderful' Guardian 'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy's every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise . . . a brilliant writer' Daily Telegraph 'A graceful and lyrical rumination on the questions, "What is a woman for? What should a woman be?"' Tatler 'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor-sharp insights' Financial Times