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Не будет преувеличением сказать, что из всех когда либо издаваемых биографий Юнга, работа Дейдры Бир, это самое подробное, детальное, обстоятельное исследование жизни Карла Густава Юнга. На чуть больше тысячи страницах двухтомника вы узнаете неизвестные доселе подробности профессионального и философского развития Юнга, историю его дружеских, профессиональных, любовных взаимоотношений, детально восстанавливается последовательность его сотрудничества с Фрейдом и даже публикуются неизвестные доселе подробности работы Юнга на британскую разведку. В отличии от множества других биографий, Дейдра Бир опирается на горзадо больший объем источников, скрытых ранее, что позволяет ей провести полноценную реконструкцию жизненного пути Юнга. Для тех кому по настоящему близок и интересен Юнг эта книга незаменима.

Не будет преувеличением сказать, что из всех когда либо издаваемых биографий Юнга, работа Дейдры Бир, это самое подробное, детальное, обстоятельное исследование жизни Карла Густава Юнга. На чуть больше тысячи страницах двухтомника вы узнаете неизвестные доселе подробности профессионального и философского развития Юнга, историю его дружеских, профессиональных, любовных взаимоотношений, детально восстанавливается последовательность его сотрудничества с Фрейдом и даже публикуются неизвестные доселе подробности работы Юнга на британскую разведку. В отличии от множества других биографий, Дейдра Бир опирается на горзадо больший объем источников, скрытых ранее, что позволяет ей провести полноценную реконструкцию жизненного пути Юнга. Для тех кому по настоящему близок и интересен Юнг эта книга незаменима.

National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.

In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written--or even read--a biography herself. The next seven years of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other--and lived essentially on the same street. While quite literally dodging one subject or the other, and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great cafés of Paris, Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile.
Drawing on Bair's extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes and details that were considered impossible to publish at the time, Parisian Lives is full of personality and warmth and give us an entirely new window on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers.

From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.

The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River, and then...well, it's really just a bunch of stuff you needn't concern yourself with. Steinberg's brilliant depiction of the world according to self-satisfied New Yorkers placed him squarely in the pantheon of the magazine's—and the era's—most celebrated artists.

But if you look beyond the searing wit and stunning artistry, you'll find one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. Born in Romania, Steinberg was educated in Milan and was already famous for his satirical drawings when World War II forced him to immigrate to the United States. On a single day, Steinberg became a US citizen, a commissioned officer in the US Navy, and a member of the OSS, assigned to spy in China, North Africa, and Italy. After the war ended, he returned to America and to his art. He quickly gained entree into influential circles that included Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, Willem de Kooning, and Le Corbusier. His wife was the artist Hedda Sterne, from whom he separated in 1960 but never divorced and with whom he remained in daily contact for the rest of his life. This conveniently freed him up to amass a coterie of young mistresses and lovers. But his truly great love was the United States, where he traveled extensively by bus, train, and car, drawing, observing, and writing.

His body of work is staggering and influential in ways we may not yet even be able to fully grasp, quite possibly because there has not been a full-scale biography of him until now. Deirdre Bair had access to 177 boxes of documents and more than 400 drawings. In addition, she conducted several hundred personal interviews. Steinberg's curious talent for creating myths about himself did not make her job an easy one, but the result is a stunning achievement to admire and enjoy.