Olivia Laing

Gebundenes Buch

Everybody

A Book About Freedom

Beschreibung

Olivia Laing is my new favourite non-fiction writer.' Nick Hornby The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her sixth book, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious, roving investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart an electrifying course through the great freedom movements of the twentieth century, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement. At a moment in which basic bodily rights are once again imperiled, Laing travels back in time to explore the long struggle for bodily freedom and to understand why the human body has been subject to so many punishing limitations. Drawing on her own experiences in protest and alternative medicine, and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, she grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Christopher Isherwood, Andrea Dworkin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X. Despite its many burdens, the body remains a source of power, even in an era as technologized and automated as our own. Everybody is an exploration of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.

Autor

Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. They're the author of several books, including The Lonely City, Everybody and Funny Weather. Their first novel, Crudo, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the 2019 James Tait Memorial Prize. Their work has been translated into twenty-one languages and in 2018 they were awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 77071
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 905g
• ISBN-13: 9781509857111
• ISBN-10: 1509857117
• Artikelnr.: 60467444

Rezensionen

An ambitious, absorbing achievement that will make your brain hum Evening Standard