Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays by Messud, Claire

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

In her fiction, Claire Messud has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives...
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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays by Messud, Claire

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

$71.20

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

$71.20
Author: Claire Messud
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In her fiction, Claire Messud has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature.

In twenty-six intimate, brilliant, and funny essays, Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. In the luminous title essay, she explores her drive to write, born of the magic of sharing language and the transformative powers of "a single successful sentence."

Together, these essays show the inner workings of a dazzling literary mind. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again an absolute master storyteller (Rebecca Carroll, Los Angeles Times).



Author: Claire Messud
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781324006756


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/08/2020
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2020
Booklist 10/01/2020 pg. 12

About the Author
Messud, Claire: - Claire Messud is the author of six works of fiction. A recipient of a Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

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