Intimations: six essays

by Smith, Zadie

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Title Statements

Full title :Intimations : six essays / By Zadie Smith.

Summary

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by 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. 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 does it reveal about the world that came before it? 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 should come next.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020
Edition:This American edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin Books
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 97 pages : 19 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780593297612, 059329761X
oclc:on1311960454
LC Classification:PR6069.M59
Dewey Decimal:824/.914

Subjects

American essays Compassion COVID-19 COVID-19 (Disease) Deux mille vingt Essais Essais américains Essay Essays Isolement social -- Aspect psychologique Quarantine -- Psychological aspects Quarantine -- Social aspects Social isolation -- Psychological aspec… Souffrance Suffering Temps Time Two thousand twenty, A.D