Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
Джошуа Прагър: Мъдростта на великите писатели за годините от живота
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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is going to be a very good year,
бъде много добра година,
particular in store for me,
ще бъде хубава година
написана през 1968.
and sentiment to be a man,
и усещането да бъдеш мъж,
wasn't writing about me.
не е писал за мен.
the subject of his book,
предметът на неговата книга,
along the same great sequence:
по същата страхотна последователност:
and confinements of childhood;
на детството,
and frustrations of adolescence;
на юношеството,
and millstones of adulthood;
на зрелостта,
and resignations of old age.
на старостта.
"It will happen to me as to them."
"Ще се случи на мен, както и на тях."
where they become narratives
където те стават разкази,
и да се припознаем.
if it passes into anything."
ако изобщо преминава в нещо."
a thought leapt to mind:
една мисъл изскочи в ума ми:
there were, somewhere,
чрез страници, някъде там,
assemble them into a narrative.
подредя в разказ.
велика последователност,
късметлиите сред нас.
wrote William Trevor.
е написал Уилям Тревър.
върху времето и възрастта.
and later an injury to me
по-късно мое нараняване
could not be assumed.
не може да бъде осмислено.
only postponed the inevitable,
само отлага неизбежното,
what circumstance did not.
което обстоятелствата не могат.
year by vulnerable year
година след уязвима година,
what was fleeting,
което е минолетно и въображаемо,
a glimpse into the future,
другите поглед в бъдещето,
стигнали до там или не.
I was quickly obsessed,
бързо станах обсебен,
for ages and ages.
години и още години.
through our first hundred years.
през първите ни сто години.
of sudden revelations,"
време на внезапни разкрития, "
that such insights were relative.
че подобни прозрения са относителни.
and so age more slowly.
и остаряваме по-бавно.
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
фразата "жълтото листо",
used it to describe himself at 36.
същото описание за себе си на 36.
can swing wildly and unpredictably
сериозно и непредвидимо,
the same age differently.
възраст по различен начин.
докато списъкът ставаше цялостен,
as the reflection in the mirror,
ясен като отражението в огледалото,
and less sure of who one is;"
представа кой е всъщност";
of preparation into active life;"
на подготовката за активен живот";
the doors to rooms
внимателно вратите към стаите,
великият графичен дизайнер,
visualizations you see here,
виждате тук,
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
и апотеоза ", пише Набоков -
че както изкуството и цвета,
what we've experienced.
какво сме преживели.
the list with my grandfather,
списъка с дядо ми,
we are sure we will not die,
сме сигурни, че няма да умрем,
named Edwin Shneidman was right
на име Едвин Шнайдман е бил прав
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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