My Story
- 336 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped on June 5, 2002, chained, disguised and raped repeatedly, tells how she readjusted to life after the kidnapping
Elizabeth Smart Knihy
27. prosinec 1913 – 4. březen 1986
Alžbětě Smartové se podařilo vytvořit silný a jedinečný hlas v kanadské literatuře. Její prozaičtí i básničtí díla jsou plná vášně a hluboké introspekce. Známá je především svým autobiografickým románem, který s neuvěřitelnou upřímností a poetickým jazykem zachycuje intenzivní milostný vztah. Smartové próza často osciluje mezi syrovou realitou a snovou vizí, čímž zkoumá složitost lidských emocí a mezilidských vztahů.
First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is an enigmatic and nearly indescribable book, a small classic of poetic prose whose author has been compared with Anaïs Nin and Djuna Barnes. In lushly evocative language, Smart recounts her love affair with the poet George Barker with an operatic grandeur that takes in the tragedy of her passion; the suffering of Barker's wife; the children the lovers conceived. Accompanied in this edition by The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals, a short novel that may be read as its sequel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept has been hailed by critics worldwide as a work of sheer genius.
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'.
