This edition, brilliantly translated by award-winning translator Paul Vincent, includes the macabre woodcut illustrations from the original Dutch edition and an introduction by John Howard. Belgian author Felix Timmermans (1886-1947) was highly popular in his lifetime for his humorous tales of rural life, but in this early collection, written after a near-death experience with a serious illness, Timmermans reveals a more morbid side and delivers a collection of psychological horror tales worthy of Edgar Allan Poe. These are the plots of the five tales in Intimations of Death (1910), available at last in English for the first time. Suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these extraordinary times, INTIMATIONS is a slim, suggestive volume with a wide scope, in which Zadie Smith clears a generous space for thought, open enough for each reader to reflect on what has happened?and what might come next.A boy’s mother lies upstairs seriously ill, and in every crash of thunder or hollow chime of the clock he seems to hear a portent of her death.-A scholar of the occult finds his marriage threatened by horrifying and otherworldly noises emanating from the cellar.-During a plague outbreak, a gravedigger accidentally prepares one too many graves and becomes obsessed with the thought that the final grave will be his own.-A haunted man, seeking refuge in a monastery, is convinced that Death itself stalks him in the building’s lonely halls.-When a suicide pact goes awry, a man believes the ghost of his vengeful lover has returned to destroy him. What does it mean to submit to a new reality?or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what it does it reveal about the world that came before it? Smith began writing the book around the time the COVID-19 pandemic began in the United. Written during the early months of lockdown, INTIMATIONS explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. Intimations is a 2020 collection of essays by writer Zadie Smith.
INTIMATIONS is a short, powerful volume of six new essays from one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time. Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and. Intimations: Six Essays Zadie Smith € 10.99 If ordered before 12:00h, this title will be in our store within 24 hours. We additionally provide variant types and in addition to type of the books to browse. TIME, The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 While quarantined amid the Covid-19.
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