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(3.71) | 8 | Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated in fiction and non-fiction what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this magnificent memoir, she takes readers from the Berlin of World War 1, to the artists' set on the Cote d'Azur of the 1920s, through friends, lovers, mentors and family, to a relatively settled life in London's Chelsea. Whether evoking the everyday pleasures of life amongst friends or tracing the heartrending outline of an intimate betrayal, she offers spellbinding reflections on how history imprints itself on private lives.… (more) |
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Nothing happens without consequences; nothing ever did happen without antecedents. - Anon. Perspective - la prospettiva - aims at delineating solid objects on plane surfaces so as to give the same impressions of relative positions as the actual objects do. This technique may achieve images as 'real' as Uccello's pattern of lances, horses, men in battle, or as real as a trompe l'oeil. - Anon. Writing of the past, I have come to think it is memory that clarifies...The rest - diaries, letters, notes, are sediment... - Anon. We think we know who we are and what we ought to do about it, and yet our thought is conditioned by the nature of our immediate experience...Life is Time's fool inasmuch as it is changing from instant to instant, changing the outside and the inner world so that we never remain the same two instants together. - from Aldous Huxley's last essay, 'Shakespeare and Religion' ...Oh pauvre, oh heureux voyageur sur la terre... - Anon. ...which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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None ▾Book descriptions Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated in fiction and non-fiction what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this magnificent memoir, she takes readers from the Berlin of World War 1, to the artists' set on the Cote d'Azur of the 1920s, through friends, lovers, mentors and family, to a relatively settled life in London's Chelsea. Whether evoking the everyday pleasures of life amongst friends or tracing the heartrending outline of an intimate betrayal, she offers spellbinding reflections on how history imprints itself on private lives. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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