Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
Elizabeth Gilbert: Èxit, fracàs i la determinació per continuar creant
The author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both. Full bio
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italo-americanes força amples.
més o menys fins aquí,
grateful to be that person,
de ser aquesta persona,
en la difícil situació
had adored "Eat, Pray, Love"
els havia agradat «Menja, resa, estima»
had hated "Eat, Pray, Love"
que odiaven «Menja, resa, estima»
hauria deixat d'escriure.
mala acollida que tindria.
manera d'assegurar-me
sobrevivia al seu propi èxit.
all through adolescence,
durant tota l'adolescència.
al The New Yorker,
un treball de cambrera,
i escrivint,
em preguntava a mi mateixa
returning to my family's farm.
tornar a la granja dels meus pares.
than I hated failing at writing,
del que odiava fracassar escrivint,
que el meu propi ego,
del que m'estimava a mi mateixa.
«Menja, resa, estima»
have been more different.
havien pogut ésser més diferents.
de les meves expectatives.
em sentia como si fos ella?
we experience great failure
com patim un gran fracàs
de l'experiència humana
and reassuring and regular,
reconfortant i habitual,
i d'abruptament però
seen by the world as good,
pel món com bo,
és completament incapaç
i el que està malament.
remei per a l'auto-restauració,
find your way back home again
trobar el camí de tornada a casa
que us estimeu més
pot ser la família,
havia estat fent tot aquell temps
i així és com a l'any 2010
a la meva llar d'escriure
va ser publicat l'any passat
però no és el que vull dir.
estic escrivint un nou llibre
are not safe places to live. Right?
no son bones llars per viure-hi, veritat?
de les coses que us estimeu
com per un gran èxit,
way back to that home
per trobar el camí de tornada a casa
i continueu fent això
from long personal experience
la meva llarga experiència personal
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Gilbert - WriterThe author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both.
Why you should listen
Elizabeth Gilbert faced down a premidlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of -- running off for a year. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home.
She's a longtime magazine writer -- covering music and politics for Spin and GQ -- as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man. Her work has been the basis for two movies so far (Coyote Ugly, based on her own tale of working at the famously raunchy bar in New York City), and Eat, Pray, Love, with the part of Gilbert played by Julia Roberts. Not bad for a year off.
In 2010, Elizabeth published Committed, a memoir exploring her ambivalent feelings about the institution of marriage. And her 2013 novel, The Signature of All Things, is "a sprawling tale of 19th century botanical exploration."
Gilbert also owns and runs the import shop Two Buttons in Frenchtown, New Jersey.
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