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Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces by Jenny Erpenbeck
4.0
"If the language that you can speak isn't enough that's a very good reason to start writing. As paradoxical as it may be: The impossibility of expressing what happens to us in words is what pushes us towards writing. Whenever I have not been able to understand something, have not been able to capture it in words, that's when I've started writing."
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Thoughts~
An honest and amusing look into Erpenbeck's life and work. These essays are divided into three parts, Life, Literature and Music, and Society. Erpenbeck gives her coming of age in Berlin. How early on she was absorbed by music and theater. She talks of the fall of the Berlin wall when she was only twenty two, astutely examining her own country's grim past. And then through her journey to becoming a writer, sharing some of her favorite literary influences as well. This was an interesting read! My favorite parts were where she shares about her own writing thought process and of her childhood. If you haven't read her books before definitely check them out, she's a beautiful writer.
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Thank You to @pgcbooks for sending this my way, opinions are my own.
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For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong
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Thoughts~
An honest and amusing look into Erpenbeck's life and work. These essays are divided into three parts, Life, Literature and Music, and Society. Erpenbeck gives her coming of age in Berlin. How early on she was absorbed by music and theater. She talks of the fall of the Berlin wall when she was only twenty two, astutely examining her own country's grim past. And then through her journey to becoming a writer, sharing some of her favorite literary influences as well. This was an interesting read! My favorite parts were where she shares about her own writing thought process and of her childhood. If you haven't read her books before definitely check them out, she's a beautiful writer.
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Thank You to @pgcbooks for sending this my way, opinions are my own.
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For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong