A shimmering jewel of a book about Writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, to publish alongside her new work of nonfiction, The Cost of Living .
Spanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the writer at seven, fifteen, and fifty), Things I Don\'t Want to Know brings the reader into a writer\'s heart..
As she struggles to balance womanhood, motherhood, and her Writing career, Levy identifies some of the real-life experiences that have shaped her novels, including her family\'s emigration from South Africa in the era of apartheid; her teenage years in the UK where she played at being a writer in the company of builders and bus drivers in cheap diners; and her theater-Writing days touring Poland in the midst of Eastern Europe\'s economic crisis, where she observed how a soldier tenderly kissed the women in his life goodbye.
Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to hammer at his typewriter--political purpose, historical impulse, sheer egoism, and aesthetic enthusiasm--and Levy\'s newest work riffs on these same commitments from a female writer\'s perspective.
Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don\'t Want to Know is Deborah Levy\'s witty response to George Orwell\'s influential essay Why I Write.
A shimmering jewel of a book about Writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, to publish alongside her new work of nonfiction, The Cost of Living
