Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
Joshua Prager: Înțelepciunea vine de la marii scriitori pentru orice an al vieții
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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is going to be a very good year,
o să fie un an foarte bun,
particular in store for me,
pe cale să mi se întâmple,
Norman Mailer.
solidă
and sentiment to be a man,
și sentimentul de a fi om,
wasn't writing about me.
nu a scris despre mine.
the subject of his book,
subiectul cărții sale,
mai mult sau mai puțin,
along the same great sequence:
prin același parcurs măreț:
and confinements of childhood;
copilăriei;
and frustrations of adolescence;
and millstones of adulthood;
and resignations of old age.
"It will happen to me as to them."
„O să mi se întâmple mie ca și lor."
where they become narratives
devenind astfel narațiuni
if it passes into anything."
dacă e să se traducă în ceva.”
a thought leapt to mind:
mi-a trecut prin minte:
there were, somewhere,
atunci există, undeva,
assemble them into a narrative.
să le asamblez într-o narațiune.
cei mai norocoși dintre noi.
wrote William Trevor.
a scris William Trevor.
asupra timpului și vârstei.
and later an injury to me
și apoi o rană de-a mea
could not be assumed.
nu poate fi asumat.
only postponed the inevitable,
doar a amânat inevitabilul,
what circumstance did not.
nu fac circumstanțele.
year by vulnerable year
un an vulnerabil după altul,
what was fleeting,
și ține tot ce e trecător,
a glimpse into the future,
să aruncăm o privire în viitor,
I was quickly obsessed,
m-a obsedat imediat,
for ages and ages.
despre vârste și vârste.
through our first hundred years.
a primilor noștri 100 de ani.
of sudden revelations,"
neașteptate”,
that such insights were relative.
erau relative.
and so age more slowly.
și îmbătrânim mai lent.
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
expresia „frunza îngălbenită”
used it to describe himself at 36.
a folosit-o pentru a se descrie la 36 ani.
can swing wildly and unpredictably
în mod sălbatic și imprevizibil
the same age differently.
în mod diferit.
pe măsură ce lista se forma,
as the reflection in the mirror,
asemeni reflexiei clare în oglindă,
and less sure of who one is;"
„...nu ești niciodată sigur de cine ești”,
of preparation into active life;"
de pregătire pentru o viață activă"
the doors to rooms
ușile camerelor
visualizations you see here,
le puteți vedea aici
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
și o apoteoză”, a scris Nabokov,
precum arta și culoarea,
what we've experienced.
ceea ce am trăit.
the list with my grandfather,
lista bunicului meu,
și mai avea puțin de trăit,
we are sure we will not die,
suntem siguri că nu vom muri,
named Edwin Shneidman was right
Edwin Schneidman avea dreptate
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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