Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
Џошуа Прејгер (Joshua Prager): Мудрости великих писаца о свакој години 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,
бити заиста добра,
particular in store for me,
да ће то бити добра година
четрдесет четири…“,
and sentiment to be a man,
осећања бити мушкарац,
wasn't writing about me.
the subject of his book,
along the same great sequence:
истим сјајним редоследом,
and confinements of childhood;
and frustrations of adolescence;
and millstones of adulthood;
and resignations of old age.
"It will happen to me as to them."
„Десиће се мени, као и њима.“
where they become narratives
у којима постају приче
if it passes into anything."
ако уопште прелази у нешто.“
a thought leapt to mind:
синула мисао да,
there were, somewhere,
постоје негде и одломци
assemble them into a narrative.
да их спојим у причу.
wrote William Trevor.
написао је Вилијам Тревор.
о времену и старости.
and later an injury to me
а касније и моја повреда
could not be assumed.
не може узети здраво за готово.
only postponed the inevitable,
одлагало неизбежно,
what circumstance did not.
оно што околности нису.
year by vulnerable year
годину за рањивом годином
what was fleeting,
онога што је пролазно,
a glimpse into the future,
обезбеђивање погледа у будућност,
I was quickly obsessed,
убрзо сам постао опседнут,
for ages and ages.
на страницама и страницама.
through our first hundred years.
кроз својих првих стотину година.
of sudden revelations,"
период изненадних откровења“,
that such insights were relative.
да су таква схватања релативна.
and so age more slowly.
те тако старимо спорије.
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
је користио фразу „жути лист“
used it to describe himself at 36.
искористио да опише себе са 36. година.
can swing wildly and unpredictably
може да се преокрене дивље и непредвидиво
the same age differently.
исте године различито.
док се листа обједињавала,
as the reflection in the mirror,
јасно као одраз у огледалу,
and less sure of who one is;"
„човек све мање сигуран ко је“,
of preparation into active life;"
из „пустоши припреме у активан живот“,
the doors to rooms
„да тихо затвори врата соба
visualizations you see here,
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
написао је Набоков,
као и уметност и боје,
what we've experienced.
оно што смо доживели.
the list with my grandfather,
са својим дедом,
и био је близу смрти,
we are sure we will not die,
сигурни да нећемо умрети,
named Edwin Shneidman was right
под именом Едвин Шнајдман био у праву
кроз много страница.
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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