Exposure - Brossura

Olivia Sudjic

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1999922336 ISBN 13: 9781999922337

Casa editrice: Peninsula Press, 2018

Riassunto

*An Irish Times Book of the Year 2018*

*An Evening Standard Book of the Year 2018*

An essay on the anxiety epidemic, autofiction and internet feminism.

After the release of Sympathy, her debut novel which explores surveillance and identity in the internet age, Olivia Sudjic found herself under the microscope. Trapped in an anxious spiral of self-doubt, she became alienated from herself and her work. Blaming her own mental-health masked a wider problem that still persists: the tendency for writing by women, whether fiction or personal testimony, to be invalidated on the grounds of sex.

Drawing on Sudjic's experience of anxiety - as well as the work of Elena Ferrante, Maggie Nelson, Jenny Offill, Rachel Cusk and others Exposure examines the damaging assumptions that attend female artists, indeed any woman who risks Exposure , as well as the strategies by which one might escape them.

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Recensione:

'[A] masterly first work of non-fiction... which examines the phenomenon of anxiety with rigour and compassion. ' (Evening Standard, Best Books 2018)

'Exposure feels both necessary and timely: a blistering, thoughtful examination of the anxieties around writing. Sudjic shares her own experiences and those of writers like Maggie Nelson and Chris Kraus to dismantle the assumptions often made about the authorial 'I', particularly for women. A superb, engaging piece of work.' (Sinead Gleeson, RTE Radio 1)

'Unflinchingly honest and insightful on the challenges of anxiety.' (Sophie Mackintosh, Man Booker-longlisted author of THE WATER CURE)

'Beautifully articulated, incisive, necessary and downright brilliant.' (Sharlene Teo, author of PONTI)

'A powerful defence of fundamental, increasingly eroded rights: our right to be only partially known or wholly unseen; our right to draw on the energy of our fears to make art. In this post-truth moment, our fraught and all-too-frequently gendered (mis)understanding of fiction's purpose is rapidly approaching crisis point. Sudjic's Exposure feels like it arrives just in time.' (Sam Byers, author of PERFIDIOUS ALBION)

'Simply magnificent. It fizzes through your brain like a stringent tonic with an essayist's style that entangles deep erudition with personal reflection.' --(Matthew d'Ancona, Editor-in-Chief of DRUGSTORE CULTURE)

L'autore:

Olivia Sudjic is a writer living in London. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian and The Sunday Times. Her debut novel Sympathy was a finalist for the Salerno European Book Award, the Collyer Bristow Prize and has been translated into five languages.

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• Editore: Peninsula Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1999922336
• ISBN 13: 9781999922337
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128