100 Days

100 Days
Gabriel Josipovici
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Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 386pg
28 Oct 2021 UK
9781800172036
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When in March 2020 the Covid pandemic led the Government to impose a total lockdown Gabriel Josipovici decided that he would respond to a unique situation by writing an essay a day for a hundred days, prefacing each with a diary entry, keeping track of the changing seasons as well as the pandemic. As organising and generating principle for the essays he chose the alphabet, and the result is a stimulating kaleidoscope of topics from Aachen to Zoos, passing by Alexandria, Luciano Berio, Ivy Compton-Burnett, reflections on his own early works The Echo-Chamber and Flow, Langland' s Piers Plowman, the idea of repetition in life and art, and much else. Josipovici reminds us that he has previously ' plundered episodes in my life to illustrate the intertwining of memory and forgetting, the desire to remember and the need to forget' , and here he has someone say to him: ' You don' t seem to be afraid of revealing a great deal about yourself. ' ' I don' t think I feel it that way,' he responds. ' I can "reveal" precisely because it does not seem to be part of me. It seems to belong to someone else, a writer I have lived with, an immigrant I have known. ' Loquacious, funny and incautious, this surprising book is in effect a kind of expressionist self-portrait as well as a meditation on a hundred days of the pandemic.
' Gabriel Josipovici is one of our most brilliant writers - every new book is an event to look forward to. ' - Deborah Levy, Man Booker Prize Nominee
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a First in 1961. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Sussex. He is the author of nineteen novels, three volumes of short stories, eight critical works, and numerous stage and radio plays, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.
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ISBN-13: 9781800172036
Published: 28 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Little Island Press
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 386

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