Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
Joshua Prager: La saggezza ci viene dai grandi scrittori in ogni momento della vita
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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is going to be a very good year,
sarà un ottimo anno,
e realizzazione.
particular in store for me,
di particolare in serbo per me
"Le armate della notte"
un'incarnazione solida
and sentiment to be a man,
e l'impressione di essere un uomo,
wasn't writing about me.
non si riferiva a me.
the subject of his book,
il protagonista del libro,
questa età,
along the same great sequence:
per lo stesso grandioso percorso:
e i travagli dell'infanzia;
and confinements of childhood;
and frustrations of adolescence;
dell'adolescenza;
and millstones of adulthood;
dell'età adulta;
and resignations of old age.
di quando si diventa vecchi.
"It will happen to me as to them."
"Succederà a me come a loro".
non solo li viviamo,
where they become narratives
e così diventano storie
e riconoscere.
if it passes into anything."
se proprio si traduce in qualcosa".
a thought leapt to mind:
mi è balenato un pensiero in testa:
there were, somewhere,
dovevano esserci, da qualche parte,
assemble them into a narrative.
avrei potuto riunirli in un racconto.
a formare una vita,
lunga 100 anni
grandiosa sequenza
i più fortunati di noi.
wrote William Trevor.
dice William Trevor.
and later an injury to me
e un mio infortunio poi
could not be assumed.
che invecchiare non è scontato.
only postponed the inevitable,
che posticipare l'inevitabile,
what circumstance did not.
che le circostanze non fanno.
year by vulnerable year
un anno difficile dopo l'altro,
what was fleeting,
e inchiodare ciò che scappa,
a glimpse into the future,
di dare un'occhiata al futuro,
I was quickly obsessed,
fui subito ossessionato
for ages and ages.
su pagine e pagine.
through our first hundred years.
dei nostri primi 100 anni.
of sudden revelations,"
improvvise",
that such insights were relative.
che queste visioni erano relative.
and so age more slowly.
e si invecchia più lentamente.
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
l'espressione "foglia ingiallita"
used it to describe himself at 36.
per descrivere sé stesso a 36 anni
can swing wildly and unpredictably
in modo assurdo e imprevedibile
the same age differently.
la stessa età in modi diversi.
la lista prendeva forma,
as the reflection in the mirror,
come il riflesso su uno specchio,
and less sure of who one is;"
"...non sei mai sicuro di chi tu sia",
of preparation into active life;"
della preparazione a una vita attiva"
the doors to rooms
delicatamente le porte delle stanze
disegnatore grafico,
visualizations you see here,
le illustrazioni,
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
e un'apoteosi", scrisse Nabokov,
come l'arte e il colore,
what we've experienced.
ciò che abbiamo vissuto.
the list with my grandfather,
la lista con mio nonno,
,
we are sure we will not die,
siamo sicuri che non moriremo,
il medico legale Edwin Schneidman,
named Edwin Shneidman was right
invece ne siamo certi.
attraversare.
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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