Das Jahr Magischen Denkens by Joan Didion
A Memoir
A spare, candid memoir that chronicles a year of bereavement after the sudden death of the narrator’s husband, interwoven with the acute illness of their daughter; it examines the disorienting rituals of mourning, the persistence of memory, and the irrational hopes and patterns of thought—“magical thinking”—that attempt to make loss intelligible, while probing mortality, marriage, and the way language is used to hold grief in place.
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- Published
- 2005
- Nationality
- Unknown
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-250 pages
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- Das Jahr des magischen Denkens
- El año del pensamiento mágico
- L'année de la pensée magique
- The Year of Magical Thinking
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