Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants.
Deirdre Bair Ordine dei libri
21 giugno 1935 – 17 aprile 2020
Deirdre Bair è una celebrata biografa il cui lavoro offre profonde intuizioni sulla vita e la mente di individui eccezionali. La sua magistrale narrazione attira i lettori nelle complessità della psicologia umana e del processo creativo. Bair si concentra nello scoprire le motivazioni e le filosofie dei suoi soggetti, creando non solo ritratti, ma profonde analisi letterarie. Le sue opere sono stimate per la loro precisione, forza narrativa e capacità di rivelare le forze essenziali che plasmano le vite e le eredità di artisti e pensatori significativi.
- 2020
- 2004
Jung
- 900pagine
- 32 ore di lettura
Freud's 'crown prince', Carl Gustav Jung eventually abandoned Freud's theory to form his own. As Freud's influence has waned, Jung's ideas have gained currency. This biography considers his life and ideas, exploring the accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny by examining his own writings.
- 1995
Biography of controversial author Anaïs Nin, known for her erotic books and many affairs, especially the one with fellow writer Henry Miller, with information taken from Nin's extensive diaries and interviews with family, friends, and enemies
- 1990
Simone de Beauvoir
- 718pagine
- 26 ore di lettura
This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive."--The Atlantic. 16-page photographic insert.
- 1978
