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Hermit writers and how they spent time in solitude
Billions of people on the planet are now in quarantine waiting for this to end. But there are those for whom such conditions are quite acceptable. There have always been singles, and most of all among representatives of world literature. Famous writers went into voluntary solitude even before it became fashionable. Perhaps it was the life of the hermits that helped them create great books.
Today's edition. "Site" They will tell you which of the writers was a hermit and how they experienced solitude. Maybe it'll inspire you to reconsider. quarantine.
Surely someone in the comments already wrote that Brodsky should not be on this list, because he was not a reclusive. Let me assure you right away: we know. This list could not do without Joseph Alexandrovich, if only because we love him very much.
Many people mistakenly believe that Brodsky led a reclusive lifestyle. Most likely, such a legend about him gave rise to one of his most famous poems: “Do not leave the room; consider yourself blown away.” What's more interesting in a wall and a chair? Why go out where you will return in the evening just as you were, much less mutilated?
It is often taken too literally, although the poet is metaphorical. So he tried to show what place was given to a person under Soviet rule. The poet’s relationship with her was, to put it mildly, tense.
Still, everyone is misled by his lamp home photos in a work environment and with cats. Joseph Alexandrovich loved cats, but in fact Brodsky was a companion. So one has nothing to do with the other. He loved noisy parties and big companies, he did not keep external distance from people.
The only distance he strictly observed was his inner distance from the ordinary world, from people and events. The ability to observe and maintain internal distance is one of the signs of his outstanding personality. Iosif Alexandrovich was able to mislead, but now it is time to talk about the real reclusive.
Jerome David Salinger I'm sure many have read "The Catcher in the Rye" One of the best novels about youth and freedom. But many do not know that the author of the novel was a reclusive. This did not stop him from writing a novel that is still on sale 70 years after publication.
Salinger's first stories were published in the 40s, and then, in 1951, his first and only novel, which caused a furor, came out. The author did not easily experience his popularity after the publication of “The Catcher in the Rye”. He did not want to communicate with journalists, and then forbade the publication of the collection of his letters.
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Why isn't Salinger a Beatnik? Subscribe to my page @lyubimskaya_com, soon there will be a webinar on Salinger! х️ ← In the very first works of Soviet literary critics often called Salinger a beatnik. And that, of course, is incorrect. Modern researchers have long since closed this question. However, I continue to stumble upon Salinger Beatnik, only in the posts of book bloggers. Yes, Holden Caulfield greatly influenced the attitude of the beatniks. Yes, Salinger's novel was written at the same time as Kerouac's novel On the Road, Ginsberg's poem Howl. And yet. There are at least two reasons why Salinger is not a beatnik. And these reasons are very significant: the writing method is radically different. Salinger was a pedantic stylist and polished his texts to shine, rewriting them several times. Beatniks wrote with a stream of consciousness and splashed on paper everything that comes to mind, not paying attention to irregularities. They also did not observe punctuation marks, deliberately ignored them. Heroes are radically different. The beatniks are socially unsettled tramps, Salinger comes from wealthy families living in the best neighborhoods of New York, and in later texts are deep intellectuals. These features will distinguish the works of Beatniks and Salinger in both form and problem, conflict. Ihab Hassan, an American literary theorist, called Salinger an “individual talent” in one of his articles, and I like that. Have you had any confusion about this? Who do you like more: Beatniks or Salinger? I remind you that during the week I read to you “The Catcher in the Rye”. Today is the third day. The air will begin at 19:00 MSK. Get in touch!
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Four years after the publication of the novel, the author married a student Claire Douglas. They had two children, daughter Margaret and son Matthew. By the way, Margaret later wrote a book and told many interesting details about the life of her famous father.
Over the years, Salinger became increasingly distant from public life, and over time became a real hermit. In 1965, he stopped writing for himself. He and his family moved to a house near the forest, fenced it with a high fence and hung a sign “Forbidden Entry”.
I can’t say that his life was boring, not at all. The writer practiced yoga, was fond of Zen Buddhism and studied alternative medicine. His worldview was very specific, but he lived a long and fulfilling life.
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“Because a man is dead, you can’t stop loving him, damn it, especially if he was the best living person, you know?” Jerome David Salinger is one of the most mysterious writers of the XX century, a reclusive and hermit, the author of a series of stories and stories about the extraordinary family of Glasses, the novel-rebellion “The Catcher in the Rye” and a huge archive of still unpublished texts. For the first time we meet Holden Caulfield in the early story of 1941 “Slight riot on Madison Avenue”. Salinger will work on a novel about a rebellious teenager for ten years, within which - unhappy love, family quarrels, the throes of creativity, the first failures and, finally, the war: the landing in Normandy, the battles in the Ardennes and Hurtgent forest, participation in the liberation of concentration camps and the denazification of Germany. And all this powerful human experience shines through every piece of his work. Holden is a teenager who challenges everything: educational institutions, the commercial arts, the establishment – in short, the world of adults. In his baseball cap, worn backwards, in his attempt to defend spontaneity ... he is almost like a beatnik, or a prototype of the future hippie. At the end of February, the director Artemy Nikolaev will present at the Theater “On the Embankment” the premiere – a flashback based on the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”. The story of Holden Caulfield will move to today and will become even closer to us living in 2020. Tickets on the link in the profile header. ← What: The Catcher in the Rye performance ★ PREMIERA ★ Where: Theater “On the Embankment” – New Scene WHEN: February 22 at 19:00 ► #Theaternabereg #40season #TheatreMoscow #TheatreMoscow #Kudapoitive Weekend #Salinger #Salinger #Holdencolfield #Premier
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Milan Kundera on April 1, the legendary Milan Kundera turned 91 years old. Kundera is one of the most popular authors of the second half of the XX century. It was from his pen that such wonderful novels as "Farewell waltz" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Now the writer lives in Paris and only occasionally visits his native Czech Republic.
You hardly know this, because Kundera, like Salinger, is a recluse and recluse, about whose life little is known. In the 70s, the writer was deprived of Czechoslovak citizenship, accused of revolutionary actions and betrayal. In 1981 he moved to Paris and obtained French citizenship.
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? The novel attracted me with its mysterious name, a combination of the incomprehensible. After reading the book, I was very disappointed. I don't know how to call it a love story. A man who cheats on his wife all his life, and a woman who suffers from it all her life. Marriage of the same dependent people who are both unhappy and suffering throughout the narrative. Their story was uninteresting and boring to me. Everything is written so dull, unemotional, detached. I didn’t want to rush home and wait for the book to come back and learn more. But to say that the book is bad I can not, it has fresh, deep thoughts, just, apparently, it is not my author. 5/10. “A man who dreams of leaving the place where he lives is clearly unhappy.” “It is the weak who must be able to become strong and leave when the strong are too weak to be able to hurt the weak.” To be intimate with a woman and to sleep with a woman are two passions not only different, but almost opposite. “He dreamed of getting out of his life as he walked out of his apartment.” ? Why don't you ever use your power against me? Because to love is to give up power. “History is as easy as individual human life, unbearably easy, as light as fluff, as billowing dust, as that which tomorrow will not be.” “It is accident that is full of magic. The need is unknown.” Out of the feeling of insecurity, a dizzying, boundless craving for falling was born"#intolerableEasyBeing #milancunder #cunder #review #book #book #bookblog #book#book07
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Around the same time, he stops giving interviews for fear of persecution. The author completely goes into literature. It is worth saying that the isolation had a good effect on his work: in his track record 10 novels, four plays, a collection of short stories and dozens of essays.
In rare interviews dating from the 80s, Kundera admits that he has a rich intellectual life, friends and loved ones. He notes that a real writer does not need publicity. The life of hermits is just right for the author.
View this post on Instagram
The first crocodile of the people is the release of yogic memory. Knowing yoga books, yoga culture, yoga history. And then we will punish anyone to write new books, to read a new culture, to win a new history. I'm not going to tell you what you're talking about. Forget about the squirrels. ... Milan Kundera ... #milankunder #milankundera #goodmorning_news #goodmorning_kiev_ua #news #goodnews #milankunder #opinion #writer #writer #writer #promou #think #life
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It’s hard to imagine this list without her. Brilliant writer, feminist, member of the legendary band Bloomsbury – and all this about the magnificent Virginia Woolf. It is hard to imagine this world without her and her work. It should be noted that she was not a solitary or recluse. However, the illness forced her to withdraw from the outside world.
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And yet the thought does not leave you: this silence was broken by a cry; on that night all this beauty was an accomplice to the crime; she agreed; she agreed to keep her equanimity, shine with beauty as she shone; at any moment she can be reopened to pieces. This goodness, this security, is only a facade.” W. Woolf "Cinematograph" #virginiawoolf #anothercenturyago #creatorsbylife #artquotes #virginiawulf
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She found protection in her home and with her family. Virginia Woolf suffered all her life from depression, headaches and loss of appetite. Her husband Leonard Wolfe became her protection and support: he supported her until the last day.
In the basement of her home in Bloomsbury, Woolf and her husband started their own publishing house, Hogarth Press. By the way, the publishing house works to this day. There, Wolfe had a separate room for work. It was in this room that her most important books were born: "Mrs. Dalloway.". "To the lighthouse.".
View this post on Instagram
This book, you might say, ended up on my shelf by accident. But, as always, the rule works - are accidents not accidental? “That’s new,” I thought as I started reading it. Fragile, delicate, unusual... I liked her. A book that makes you think and make transfers to yourself and your surroundings. The word "exquisiteness" she will match In the center of the story, the Ramsey family, gathering for a lighthouse... There will be little action and a lot of thoughts of the characters, if not to say – the whole story goes through the thoughts of the characters? Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) – British writer, one of the leading representatives of modernism Also worth watching the film “The Clock” with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep about one day of life W. Wolfe #Namayak #Virginiawulf #Orlando #Missdelloway #modernism in literature #British writer #book review #favourite #smartbooks?
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This is not a complete list of writers who led the life of hermits. You can also remember Patrick Suskind, about whom almost nothing is known, or Harper Lee, who lived in seclusion for 50 years. Some suffer from quarantine, and they voluntarily chose isolation from society.
Many will find this strange, but it is in solitude that they created their greatest works. Perhaps quarantine is the best time to do self-development and write your own great novel.
Today's edition. "Site" They will tell you which of the writers was a hermit and how they experienced solitude. Maybe it'll inspire you to reconsider. quarantine.
Surely someone in the comments already wrote that Brodsky should not be on this list, because he was not a reclusive. Let me assure you right away: we know. This list could not do without Joseph Alexandrovich, if only because we love him very much.
Many people mistakenly believe that Brodsky led a reclusive lifestyle. Most likely, such a legend about him gave rise to one of his most famous poems: “Do not leave the room; consider yourself blown away.” What's more interesting in a wall and a chair? Why go out where you will return in the evening just as you were, much less mutilated?
It is often taken too literally, although the poet is metaphorical. So he tried to show what place was given to a person under Soviet rule. The poet’s relationship with her was, to put it mildly, tense.
Still, everyone is misled by his lamp home photos in a work environment and with cats. Joseph Alexandrovich loved cats, but in fact Brodsky was a companion. So one has nothing to do with the other. He loved noisy parties and big companies, he did not keep external distance from people.
The only distance he strictly observed was his inner distance from the ordinary world, from people and events. The ability to observe and maintain internal distance is one of the signs of his outstanding personality. Iosif Alexandrovich was able to mislead, but now it is time to talk about the real reclusive.
Jerome David Salinger I'm sure many have read "The Catcher in the Rye" One of the best novels about youth and freedom. But many do not know that the author of the novel was a reclusive. This did not stop him from writing a novel that is still on sale 70 years after publication.
Salinger's first stories were published in the 40s, and then, in 1951, his first and only novel, which caused a furor, came out. The author did not easily experience his popularity after the publication of “The Catcher in the Rye”. He did not want to communicate with journalists, and then forbade the publication of the collection of his letters.
View this post on Instagram
Why isn't Salinger a Beatnik? Subscribe to my page @lyubimskaya_com, soon there will be a webinar on Salinger! х️ ← In the very first works of Soviet literary critics often called Salinger a beatnik. And that, of course, is incorrect. Modern researchers have long since closed this question. However, I continue to stumble upon Salinger Beatnik, only in the posts of book bloggers. Yes, Holden Caulfield greatly influenced the attitude of the beatniks. Yes, Salinger's novel was written at the same time as Kerouac's novel On the Road, Ginsberg's poem Howl. And yet. There are at least two reasons why Salinger is not a beatnik. And these reasons are very significant: the writing method is radically different. Salinger was a pedantic stylist and polished his texts to shine, rewriting them several times. Beatniks wrote with a stream of consciousness and splashed on paper everything that comes to mind, not paying attention to irregularities. They also did not observe punctuation marks, deliberately ignored them. Heroes are radically different. The beatniks are socially unsettled tramps, Salinger comes from wealthy families living in the best neighborhoods of New York, and in later texts are deep intellectuals. These features will distinguish the works of Beatniks and Salinger in both form and problem, conflict. Ihab Hassan, an American literary theorist, called Salinger an “individual talent” in one of his articles, and I like that. Have you had any confusion about this? Who do you like more: Beatniks or Salinger? I remind you that during the week I read to you “The Catcher in the Rye”. Today is the third day. The air will begin at 19:00 MSK. Get in touch!
A post shared by LITERATURE (@lyubimskaya.olga) on Mar 23, 2020 at 2:58am PDT
Four years after the publication of the novel, the author married a student Claire Douglas. They had two children, daughter Margaret and son Matthew. By the way, Margaret later wrote a book and told many interesting details about the life of her famous father.
Over the years, Salinger became increasingly distant from public life, and over time became a real hermit. In 1965, he stopped writing for himself. He and his family moved to a house near the forest, fenced it with a high fence and hung a sign “Forbidden Entry”.
I can’t say that his life was boring, not at all. The writer practiced yoga, was fond of Zen Buddhism and studied alternative medicine. His worldview was very specific, but he lived a long and fulfilling life.
View this post on Instagram
“Because a man is dead, you can’t stop loving him, damn it, especially if he was the best living person, you know?” Jerome David Salinger is one of the most mysterious writers of the XX century, a reclusive and hermit, the author of a series of stories and stories about the extraordinary family of Glasses, the novel-rebellion “The Catcher in the Rye” and a huge archive of still unpublished texts. For the first time we meet Holden Caulfield in the early story of 1941 “Slight riot on Madison Avenue”. Salinger will work on a novel about a rebellious teenager for ten years, within which - unhappy love, family quarrels, the throes of creativity, the first failures and, finally, the war: the landing in Normandy, the battles in the Ardennes and Hurtgent forest, participation in the liberation of concentration camps and the denazification of Germany. And all this powerful human experience shines through every piece of his work. Holden is a teenager who challenges everything: educational institutions, the commercial arts, the establishment – in short, the world of adults. In his baseball cap, worn backwards, in his attempt to defend spontaneity ... he is almost like a beatnik, or a prototype of the future hippie. At the end of February, the director Artemy Nikolaev will present at the Theater “On the Embankment” the premiere – a flashback based on the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”. The story of Holden Caulfield will move to today and will become even closer to us living in 2020. Tickets on the link in the profile header. ← What: The Catcher in the Rye performance ★ PREMIERA ★ Where: Theater “On the Embankment” – New Scene WHEN: February 22 at 19:00 ► #Theaternabereg #40season #TheatreMoscow #TheatreMoscow #Kudapoitive Weekend #Salinger #Salinger #Holdencolfield #Premier
A post shared by Waterfront Theatre (@nabereg_teatr) on Jan 31, 2020 at 7:30am PST
Milan Kundera on April 1, the legendary Milan Kundera turned 91 years old. Kundera is one of the most popular authors of the second half of the XX century. It was from his pen that such wonderful novels as "Farewell waltz" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Now the writer lives in Paris and only occasionally visits his native Czech Republic.
You hardly know this, because Kundera, like Salinger, is a recluse and recluse, about whose life little is known. In the 70s, the writer was deprived of Czechoslovak citizenship, accused of revolutionary actions and betrayal. In 1981 he moved to Paris and obtained French citizenship.
View this post on Instagram
? The novel attracted me with its mysterious name, a combination of the incomprehensible. After reading the book, I was very disappointed. I don't know how to call it a love story. A man who cheats on his wife all his life, and a woman who suffers from it all her life. Marriage of the same dependent people who are both unhappy and suffering throughout the narrative. Their story was uninteresting and boring to me. Everything is written so dull, unemotional, detached. I didn’t want to rush home and wait for the book to come back and learn more. But to say that the book is bad I can not, it has fresh, deep thoughts, just, apparently, it is not my author. 5/10. “A man who dreams of leaving the place where he lives is clearly unhappy.” “It is the weak who must be able to become strong and leave when the strong are too weak to be able to hurt the weak.” To be intimate with a woman and to sleep with a woman are two passions not only different, but almost opposite. “He dreamed of getting out of his life as he walked out of his apartment.” ? Why don't you ever use your power against me? Because to love is to give up power. “History is as easy as individual human life, unbearably easy, as light as fluff, as billowing dust, as that which tomorrow will not be.” “It is accident that is full of magic. The need is unknown.” Out of the feeling of insecurity, a dizzying, boundless craving for falling was born"#intolerableEasyBeing #milancunder #cunder #review #book #book #bookblog #book#book07
A post shared by Anastasiya (@naastasya_igoreevna) on Sep 12, 2019 at 2:15am PDT
Around the same time, he stops giving interviews for fear of persecution. The author completely goes into literature. It is worth saying that the isolation had a good effect on his work: in his track record 10 novels, four plays, a collection of short stories and dozens of essays.
In rare interviews dating from the 80s, Kundera admits that he has a rich intellectual life, friends and loved ones. He notes that a real writer does not need publicity. The life of hermits is just right for the author.
View this post on Instagram
The first crocodile of the people is the release of yogic memory. Knowing yoga books, yoga culture, yoga history. And then we will punish anyone to write new books, to read a new culture, to win a new history. I'm not going to tell you what you're talking about. Forget about the squirrels. ... Milan Kundera ... #milankunder #milankundera #goodmorning_news #goodmorning_kiev_ua #news #goodnews #milankunder #opinion #writer #writer #writer #promou #think #life
A post shared by Goodmorning_news (@goodmorningnews_ua) on Aug 20, 2019 at 11:22pm PDT
It’s hard to imagine this list without her. Brilliant writer, feminist, member of the legendary band Bloomsbury – and all this about the magnificent Virginia Woolf. It is hard to imagine this world without her and her work. It should be noted that she was not a solitary or recluse. However, the illness forced her to withdraw from the outside world.
View this post on Instagram
And yet the thought does not leave you: this silence was broken by a cry; on that night all this beauty was an accomplice to the crime; she agreed; she agreed to keep her equanimity, shine with beauty as she shone; at any moment she can be reopened to pieces. This goodness, this security, is only a facade.” W. Woolf "Cinematograph" #virginiawoolf #anothercenturyago #creatorsbylife #artquotes #virginiawulf
A post shared by online media (@bunchofquestions) on Feb 19, 2020 at 10:09am PST
She found protection in her home and with her family. Virginia Woolf suffered all her life from depression, headaches and loss of appetite. Her husband Leonard Wolfe became her protection and support: he supported her until the last day.
In the basement of her home in Bloomsbury, Woolf and her husband started their own publishing house, Hogarth Press. By the way, the publishing house works to this day. There, Wolfe had a separate room for work. It was in this room that her most important books were born: "Mrs. Dalloway.". "To the lighthouse.".
View this post on Instagram
This book, you might say, ended up on my shelf by accident. But, as always, the rule works - are accidents not accidental? “That’s new,” I thought as I started reading it. Fragile, delicate, unusual... I liked her. A book that makes you think and make transfers to yourself and your surroundings. The word "exquisiteness" she will match In the center of the story, the Ramsey family, gathering for a lighthouse... There will be little action and a lot of thoughts of the characters, if not to say – the whole story goes through the thoughts of the characters? Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) – British writer, one of the leading representatives of modernism Also worth watching the film “The Clock” with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep about one day of life W. Wolfe #Namayak #Virginiawulf #Orlando #Missdelloway #modernism in literature #British writer #book review #favourite #smartbooks?
A post shared by Tatyana Panova? (@panova_eto_ya) on Sep 4, 2019 at 11:43am PDT
This is not a complete list of writers who led the life of hermits. You can also remember Patrick Suskind, about whom almost nothing is known, or Harper Lee, who lived in seclusion for 50 years. Some suffer from quarantine, and they voluntarily chose isolation from society.
Many will find this strange, but it is in solitude that they created their greatest works. Perhaps quarantine is the best time to do self-development and write your own great novel.
