The Position of Spoons - And other Intimacies

From Marguerite Duras to Colette and Ballard, and from Lee Miller to Francesca Woodman and Paula Rego, we can relish here the richness of their work and, in turn the richness of the author’s own.

Each page draws upon Levy’s life in exalting ways, encapsulating the wonderful precision and astonishing depth of her writing, as she seamlessly shifts between and meditates on questions of mortality, language, suburbia, gender, consumerism and the poetics of every day living. From the child born in South Africa, to her teenage years in Britain, to her travels across the world as a young woman, each page is a beautiful, tender composition of the questioning self: a portrait of Deborah Levy’s writing life and intellectual vitality in all of its dimensions.<>

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Levy
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9780241674505
• ISBN: 978-0-241-67450-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary essays, Gender studies: women, Biography and non-fiction prose, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers