The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page. It is soul that I go looking for. Or, to put it another way, real life. 'What is life?' asked the poet Shelley, and could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, for all their understanding of how life manifests, thrives and evolves, have still not plumbed that fundamental question. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is. In th Lifescapes - Ann Wroe od authora Ann Wroe a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Ann Wroe |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
224 |
Rok vydání |
2023 |
Nakladatelství |
Jonathan Cape |