Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
Джошуа Прагер: Мудрость на каждый год жизни от великих писателей
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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is going to be a very good year,
будет очень хорошим,
particular in store for me,
что-то ждёт в будущем,
что это будет хороший год,
написанной в 1968 году.
and sentiment to be a man,
из костей, мускулов, тканей и кожи,
wasn't writing about me.
the subject of his book,
у героя книги —
along the same great sequence:
по заведённому распорядку:
and confinements of childhood;
and frustrations of adolescence;
в подростковом возрасте,
and millstones of adulthood;
во взрослой жизни,
and resignations of old age.
"It will happen to me as to them."
«Со мной случится то же, что и с ними».
where they become narratives
где они становятся повествованиями,
и узнáем в них себя.
if it passes into anything."
то оно в книгах».
a thought leapt to mind:
there were, somewhere,
то где-то должны быть
assemble them into a narrative.
в единое повествование.
посчастливится прожить.
wrote William Trevor.
«веком благоразумия», —
о времени и возрасте.
and later an injury to me
и полученная мной травма
could not be assumed.
может и не наступить.
only postponed the inevitable,
только откладывает неизбежное,
what circumstance did not.
то время возьмёт своё.
year by vulnerable year
год за годом,
what was fleeting,
a glimpse into the future,
намёк на будущее,
I was quickly obsessed,
меня тут же захватило
for ages and ages.
в поисках всех возможных возрастов.
through our first hundred years.
первого столетия нашей жизни.
of sudden revelations,"
внезапных откровений»,
незаметного отступления».
that such insights were relative.
что такие заключения относительны.
and so age more slowly.
и стареем медленнее.
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
для описания 53-летнего человека
used it to describe himself at 36.
этими же словами описывал себя 36-летнего.
can swing wildly and unpredictably
непредсказуемо и сильно меняться
один и тот же возраст.
the same age differently.
по мере формирования списка,
as the reflection in the mirror,
and less sure of who one is;"
всё более и более неуверен, кто я»;
of preparation into active life;"
где готовился к активной жизни»;
«тихо закрывать дверь в комнаты,
the doors to rooms
выдающийся графический дизайнер,
visualizations you see here,
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
писал об этом возрасте Набоков, —
что, как искусство и цвет,
what we've experienced.
что мы пережили.
the list with my grandfather,
свой список моему деду,
we are sure we will not die,
нам кажется, что мы никогда не умрём;
named Edwin Shneidman was right
что наверняка умрёт.
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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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