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1914 – Goodbye to All That

Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art

Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art

By Jeanette Winterson, Colm Toibin, Erwin Mortier and Elif Shafak
Edited by Lawinia Greenlaw

By Jeanette Winterson, Colm Toibin, Erwin Mortier and Elif Shafak
Edited by Lawinia Greenlaw

By Jeanette Winterson, Colm Toibin, Erwin Mortier and Elif Shafak
Edited by Lawinia Greenlaw

By Jeanette Winterson, Colm Toibin, Erwin Mortier and Elif Shafak
Edited by Lawinia Greenlaw

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    About 1914 – Goodbye to All That

    In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts  that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves’s “bitter leave-taking of England” in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write. 
    Interpreting this title as broadly and ambiguously as Graves intended, these essays mark the War’s centenary by reinvigorating these questions.  The book includes Elif Shafak on an inheritance of silence in Turkey, Ali Smith on lost voices in Scotland, Xiaolu Guo on the 100,000 Chinese sent to the Front, Daniel Kehlmann on hypnotism in Berlin, Colm Toibin on Lady Gregory losing her son fighting for Britain as she fought for an independent Ireland, Kamila Shamsie on reimagining Karachi, Erwin Mortier on occupied Belgium’s legacy of shame, NoViolet Bulawayo on Zimbabwe and clarity, Ales Steger on resisting history in Slovenia, and Jeanette Winterson on what art is for.
    Contributors include:
    Ali Smith – Scotland
    Ales Steger – Slovenia
    Jeanette Winterson – England
    Elif Shafak – Turkey
    NoViolet Bulawayo – Zimbabwe
    Colm Toíbín – Ireland
    Xiaolu Guo – China
    Erwin Mortier – Belgium
    Kamila Shamsie – Pakistan
    Daniel Kehlmann – Germany

    About 1914 – Goodbye to All That

    In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts  that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert Graves’s “bitter leave-taking of England” in which he writes not only of the First World War but the questions it raised: how to live, how to live with each other, and how to write. 
    Interpreting this title as broadly and ambiguously as Graves intended, these essays mark the War’s centenary by reinvigorating these questions.  The book includes Elif Shafak on an inheritance of silence in Turkey, Ali Smith on lost voices in Scotland, Xiaolu Guo on the 100,000 Chinese sent to the Front, Daniel Kehlmann on hypnotism in Berlin, Colm Toibin on Lady Gregory losing her son fighting for Britain as she fought for an independent Ireland, Kamila Shamsie on reimagining Karachi, Erwin Mortier on occupied Belgium’s legacy of shame, NoViolet Bulawayo on Zimbabwe and clarity, Ales Steger on resisting history in Slovenia, and Jeanette Winterson on what art is for.
    Contributors include:
    Ali Smith – Scotland
    Ales Steger – Slovenia
    Jeanette Winterson – England
    Elif Shafak – Turkey
    NoViolet Bulawayo – Zimbabwe
    Colm Toíbín – Ireland
    Xiaolu Guo – China
    Erwin Mortier – Belgium
    Kamila Shamsie – Pakistan
    Daniel Kehlmann – Germany

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    Product Details

    Category: Art | Literary Collections | History

    Paperback | $13.95
    Published by Pushkin Press
    Sep 01, 2015 | 192 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-13/16 | ISBN 9781782271185

    Category: Art | Literary Collections | History

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Pushkin Press
    Sep 01, 2015 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9781782271208

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    Praise

    “Tender, compassionate humanity.” — Observer

    “A global gathering of essayists here reimagine the war from a variety of vantage points.” — Guardian

    “This superb collection of essays by some of today’s leading writers stands out among the many books commissioned to mark the centenary of the First World War.” — The Lady

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