Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
Joshua Prager: Stora författares kloka ord om livets alla år
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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is going to be a very good year,
ett väldigt bra år,
och självförverkligande.
particular in store for me,
som jag väntar på,
att det är ett bra år
and sentiment to be a man,
känslor som krävdes för att vara man,
wasn't writing about me.
the subject of his book,
och huvudpersonen i hans bok -
along the same great sequence:
från det att vi föds:
and confinements of childhood;
och begränsningar;
and frustrations of adolescence;
och frustrationer;
and millstones of adulthood;
and resignations of old age.
som hör de äldre till.
"It will happen to me as to them."
hända mig likväl som dem."
where they become narratives
där de blir till berättelser
if it passes into anything."
om det omvandlas till någonting alls."
a thought leapt to mind:
there were, somewhere,
då skulle det ju någonstans finnas
assemble them into a narrative.
sätta ihop dem till en berättelse.
bland oss får följa.
wrote William Trevor.
skrev William Trevor.
och åldrandet.
and later an injury to me
när jag själv blev skadad
could not be assumed.
självklart att bli gammal.
only postponed the inevitable,
skjuta upp det oundvikliga.
what circumstance did not.
omständigheterna inte gjorde.
skulle i alla fall överleva.
year by vulnerable year
det ena sårbara året efter det andra,
what was fleeting,
förankra det som flöt omkring,
a glimpse into the future,
en glimt in i framtiden
I was quickly obsessed,
blev jag som besatt.
for ages and ages.
efter alla möjliga åldrar.
through our first hundred years.
genom våra första hundra år.
of sudden revelations,"
plötsliga uppenbarelser,"
minskande förmågor."
that such insights were relative.
att sådana insikter var relativa.
and so age more slowly.
och åldras mer långsamt.
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
uttrycket "det gula bladet"
used it to describe himself at 36.
använt det om sig själv när han var 36.
can swing wildly and unpredictably
ohyggligt och oförutsägbart
the same age differently.
ålder på olika sätt.
as the reflection in the mirror,
lika klart som en spegelbild
and less sure of who one is;"
mindre säker på vem man är;"
of preparation into active life;"
där man förbereder sig för ett aktivt liv;"
the doors to rooms
till sådana rum som
designern
visualizations you see here,
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
apoteos", skrev Nabokov -
precis som konst och färg
what we've experienced.
vad vi har upplevt.
the list with my grandfather,
var det han sa att ja,
we are sure we will not die,
är vi säkra på att vi aldrig ska dö,
named Edwin Shneidman was right
hade rätt i
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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