Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
Joshua Prager: Írók jó tanácsai minden életszakaszra
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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is going to be a very good year,
particular in store for me,
hogy ez egy jó év lesz.
and sentiment to be a man,
szívének, tudatának és érzéseinek,
wasn't writing about me.
nem rólam írta.
the subject of his book,
A könyv témája
along the same great sequence:
a jól ismert sorrendben,
and confinements of childhood;
keresztül,
and frustrations of adolescence;
és csalódásain,
and millstones of adulthood;
és mérföldkövein át,
and resignations of old age.
és beletörődéséig bezárólag.
"It will happen to me as to them."
ahogy velük is."
megörökítjük történetekként,
where they become narratives
if it passes into anything."
könyvek lapjaivá változik."
a thought leapt to mind:
valami eszembe jutott:
there were, somewhere,
egy-egy bekezdés.
assemble them into a narrative.
tudnám őket összefűzni.
egy száz évig tartó életbe,
a szerencsések megélik.
wrote William Trevor.
"mérlegelés kora".
az idő múlásán elmélkedni.
and later an injury to me
s később egy sérülésem
could not be assumed.
éri meg az öregkort.
only postponed the inevitable,
csak késlelteti az elkerülhetetlent,
what circumstance did not.
körülmények elfednek.
year by vulnerable year
évről évre
what was fleeting,
a glimpse into the future,
mindenki számára,
I was quickly obsessed,
hamar megszállottá váltam,
for ages and ages.
through our first hundred years.
száz éves korunkig.
of sudden revelations,"
that such insights were relative.
hogy ezek a meglátások viszonylagosak.
and so age more slowly.
és lassabban öregszünk.
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
a "megsárgult levél" kifejezéssel
used it to describe himself at 36.
a 36 éves önmagát írta le így.
can swing wildly and unpredictably
hogy az élet kiszámíthatatlanul változik
the same age differently.
az éveket másképp élik meg.
rendeződött a lista,
as the reflection in the mirror,
Felismerni 20 évesen:
and less sure of who one is;"
biztos abban, ki is ő";
of preparation into active life;"
készülődés kietlenségből";
the doors to rooms
"lelakatolni azokat a szobákat,
visualizations you see here,
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
kora Nabokov szerint--
hogy akárcsak a színek és a művészet,
what we've experienced.
emlékeztet minket .
the list with my grandfather,
a listámat nagyapámnak,
Roberto Bolaño, hogy
we are sure we will not die,
azt hisszük, sose halunk meg,
named Edwin Shneidman was right
tanatológusnak is igaza volt,
hogy meghalunk.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joshua Prager - JournalistJoshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own.
Why you should listen
Joshua Prager writes for publications including Vanity Fair, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior writer for eight years. George Will has described his work as "exemplary journalistic sleuthing."
His new book, 100 Years, is a list of literary quotations on every age from birth to one hundred. Designed by Milton Glaser, the legendary graphic designer who created the I ♥ NY logo, the book moves year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, revealing the great sequence of life.
His first book, The Echoing Green, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The New York Times Book Review called it “a revelation and a page turner, a group character study unequaled in baseball writing since Roger Kahn’s Boys of Summer some three decades ago.”
His second book, Half-Life, describes his recovery from a bus crash that broke his neck. Dr. Jerome Groopman, staff writer at the New Yorker magazine, called it “an extraordinary memoir, told with nuance and brimming with wisdom.
Joshua was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2011 and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Hebrew University in 2012. He was born in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, grew up in New Jersey, and lives in New York. He is writing a book about Roe v. Wade.
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