Tenth of December | George Saunders | Talks at Google
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
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One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.
In the taut opener, "Victory Lap," a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In "Home," a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he has returned. And in the title story, a stunning meditation on imagination, memory, and loss, a middle-aged cancer patient walks into the woods to commit suicide, only to encounter a troubled young boy who, over the course of a fateful morning, gives the dying man a final chance to recall who he really is. A hapless, deluded owner of an antiques store; two mothers struggling to do the right thing; a teenage girl whose idealism is challenged by a brutal brush with reality; a man tormented by a series of pharmaceutical experiments that force him to lust, to love, to kill-the unforgettable characters that populate the pages of Tenth of December are vividly and lovingly infused with Saunders's signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.
Writing brilliantly and profoundly about class, sex, love, loss, work, despair, and war, Saunders cuts to the core of the contemporary experience. These stories take on the big questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, delving into the questions of what makes us good and what makes us human.
Unsettling, insightful, and hilarious, the stories in Tenth of December-through their manic energy, their focus on what is redeemable in human beings, and their generosity of spirit-not only entertain and delight; they fulfill Chekhov's dictum that art should "prepare us for tenderness."
Advance praise for Tenth of December:
"Tenth of December shows George Saunders at his most subversive, hilarious, and emotionally piercing. Few writers can encompass that range of adjectives, but Saunders is a true original-restlessly inventive, yet deeply humane."-Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize--winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
"George Saunders is a complete original, unlike anyone else, thank god-and yet still he manages to be the rightful heir to three other complete American originals-Barthelme (the lyricism, the playfulness), Vonnegut (the outrage, the wit, the scope), and Twain (the common sense, the exasperation). There is no author I recommend to people more often-for ten years I've urged George Saunders onto everyone and everyone. You want funny? Saunders is your man. You want emotional heft? Saunders again. You want stories that are actually about something-stories that again and again get to the meat of matters of life and death and justice and country? Saunders. There is no one better, no one more essential to our national sense of self and sanity."-Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King
About the Author: George Saunders is a New York Times bestselling American writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children's books. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ, among other publications. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian's Saturday edition until October 2008.
A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection,CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006 Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2006 he won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm". His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for The Story Prize in 2007. --Wikipedia - Розваги
I have to give it to the audience members for asking such great questions.
good god
I... I love this man
@Joshua Marre Count me in on this dogpile. Do you guys each have a favorite Saunders work? I'd have to go with "Lincoln in the Bardo", which is one of the few novels that gave me a sore throat from choking back so many tears.
Fantastic talk. He is a man who gives so much enjoyment, and now with this video, so much information about his processes.
I loved his "Civilwarland in Bad Decline" especially that last story about the mutant slave.
Yes! me too. It's called "Bounty".
Ironically that was the only story in that collection i didn't care for too much. The rest I loved.
next level - love this guy
read all his books! funny and strange in the very best way.
One of the best writer talks I've heard)
We went to see him speak at the library in LA about 2 weeks ago but there were no seats left. Bummer.
George Carlin! I think if GC was a short story author he would be GS
0:41 why is junot diaz in the front row
you wrong for that one
Can't I just like the clip? Why the middle man?
16:50 Lincoln in the Bardo is born
Mood
What is with these "NEW"? White on White text captions. Am i the only one that thinks that white on white is nearly impossible to read? I see them here and on MANY. MANY videos - is this the result of some new software product? Please change the color - white letters on a dark background, or something with a higher degree of contrast.
i like talks off google
cool!
The strange thing is: for a very imagnitive he tells the EXACT same stories and jokes at every speaking appearance, year after year. Junot Diaz doesn't do that. Neither does Eugenedes. Makes you wonder.....