Ergebnis für "Dickens und Prince" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Ein warmherziges und unterhaltsames Hörbuch über Kunst, Kreativität und die überraschenden Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen dem viktorianischen Romancier Charles Dickens und dem modernen amerikanischen Rockstar Prince. Mit der Bewunderung eines Fans und seinem typischen Humor und Witz zeigt uns Nick Hornby die kuriosen Ähnlichkeiten zwischen zwei auf ihre Art genialen Künstlern, die bis heute gelesen oder gehört, bewundert und nachgeahmt werden.

What could possibly connect Prince, the great 20th century singer songwriter and Charles Dickens, the great writer of classics usually stuffed into the hands of adolescents too early? What could these two geniuses, one born in 1812 in England, and the other in 1950s Minneapolis, have in common? Tracing their lives, from the early years to their relationships with women, their finances to their inability to stop working, Dickens and Prince is a brilliantly surprising and joyous uncovering of the essence of a very particular and unique type of genius.

In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy and amusement within both art and the artist. In his extraordinary essay on his cancer diagnosis, Tóibín unpicks the word 'battle', and illuminates the distress, horror and blankness of his experiences. From the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists, to the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances and tied up with dictators and politics, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as in Marilynne Robinson's fiction.