Jenny Diski: On Trying to Keep Still
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- Kategoria: muu, ei luokiteltu, alakategoria: maantiede & matkailu
- Materiaali: Isokokoinen pokkari
- Kustantaja: Little, Brown Book Group
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781844080168
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Jenny Diski's attempt to keep still and mentally idle resulted in a year in which she travelled to New Zealand, spent two months almost alone in a cottage in the country and visited the Sami people of Lapland. Diski, fails to keep still and, like the philosopher Montaigne, keeps a record of her ramblings both mental and physical hoping as he did in time to make her mind ashamed of itself. Interspersed with ill-tempered descriptions of these trips are digressions on the subject of her sore foot; her childhood desire for 'a condition', thoughts about growing older, spiders, fundamentalism and the problems of keeping warm.