How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature by Cohen, Josh
How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature by Cohen, Josh

How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature

A brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature invites us to contemplate profound questions about the human experience...
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Author: Josh Cohen
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How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature by Cohen, Josh

How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature

$66.43
How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature by Cohen, Josh

How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature

$66.43
Author: Josh Cohen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature invites us to contemplate profound questions about the human experience by focusing on some of the best-known characters in literature--from how Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway copes with the inexorability of midlife disappointment to Ruth's embodiment of adolescent rebellion in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.

"So beautiful ... a fantastic book." --Zadie Smith, best-selling author of White Teeth

In supple and elegant prose, and with all the expertise and insight of his dual professions, Josh Cohen explores a new way for us to understand ourselves. He helps us see what Lewis Carroll's Alice and Harper Lee's Scout Finch can teach us about childhood. He delineates the mysteries of education as depicted in Jane Eyre and as seen through the eyes of Sandy Stranger in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

He discusses the need for adolescent rebellion as embodied in John Grimes in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain and in Ruth in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. He makes clear what Goethe's Young Werther and Sally Rooney's Frances have--and don't have--in common as they experience first love; how Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke deals with the vicissitudes of marriage. Vis-a-vis old age and death, Cohen considers what wisdom we may glean from John Ames in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and from Don Fabrizio in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard.

Featuring:

- Alice--Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
- Scout Finch--Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- Jane Eyre--Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- John Grimes--James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Ruth--Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
- Vladimir Petrovitch--Ivan Turgenev, First Love
- Frances--Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
- Jay Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- Esther Greenwood--Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- Clarissa Dalloway--Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- And more!

Author: Josh Cohen
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780593316207


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2021 pg. 27
Publishers Weekly 08/30/2021
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2021

About the Author
JOSH COHEN is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a professor of modern literary theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory, and psychoanalysis, including How to Read: Freud, The Private Life: Our Everyday Self in an Age of Intrusion, and Not Working: Why We Have to Stop. He lives in London.
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