Мейсон Карри – лучшие книги

Как работают творческие люди? Как им удается построить свой день так, чтобы повседневная рутина стала частью творческого процесса? Когда на задуманное не хватает времени, следует ли пожертвовать всем — сном, приличным доходом, чистотой в доме — или же можно развить способность концентрировать усилия, работать меньше да лучше Бетховен и Кафка, Жорж Санд и Пикассо, Вуди Аллен и Агата Кристи, Лев Толстой, Генри Джеймс, Чарльз Диккенс, Джон Апдайк. Писатели, композиторы, художники, балетмейстеры, драматурги, философы, карикатуристы, комики, поэты, скульпторы... Отрывки из писем и дневников, интервью и личные беседы — Карри отовсюду собирает…

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.”


Kafka is one of 161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his “male configurations”. . . Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day . . . Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced “every pleasure imaginable.”

Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books . . . Karl Marx . . . Woody Allen . . . Agatha Christie . . . George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing . . . Leo Tolstoy . . . Charles Dickens . . . Pablo Picasso . . . George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers . . .

Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to “clear the brain”).

Brilliantly compiled and edited, and filled with detail and anecdote, Daily Rituals is irresistible, addictive, magically inspiring.

Як знайти час на творчість? Цілковито присвятити себе творчій справі чи виділити на неї лише певну частину дня? Чи потрібно відмовлятися від інших занять — сну, заробітку, прибирання, якщо відчуваєш брак часу на створення задуманого? Або, можливо, потрібно навчитися ущільнювати свій розпорядок так, щоби встигати більше за менший час? І чи взагалі можливо знайти в життєвому комфорті місце для творчого акту? А може, наявність такого комфорту і є необхідною умо

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Barbara Hepworth sculpted outdoors and Janet Frame wore earmuffs as she worked to block out noise. Kate Chopin wrote with her six ch

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