'This is a really beautiful book...It's a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them' Nick Laird 'By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as a set of questions. Neither novels nor psychoanalysis promise to finally answer those questions. Instead, they invite us to look and listen - and to live in a way that lets us keep asking' TLS From the truths and lies we tell about ourselves to the resonant creations of fiction, stories give shape and meaning to all our lives. Both a practicing psychoanalyst and a professor of literature, Josh Cohen has long been taken with the mutual echoes between the life struggles of the consulting room and the dramas of the novel. So what might the most memorable characters in literature tell us about how to live meaningfully? In How to Live. What to Do, Cohen plots a course through the various stages of our lives, discovering in each the surprising and profound insights literature has to offer. Beginning with the playful mindset of Wonderland's Alice, we discover the resilience of Jane Eyre, the rebellious rage of Baldwin's Johnny Grimes and the catastrophic ambitions of Jay Gatsby, the turbulence of first love for Sally Rooney's Frances, the sorrows of marriage for Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke, and the regrets and comforts of middle age for Rabbit Angstrom.
Josh Cohen Ordre des livres (chronologique)
Josh Cohen est professeur de théorie littéraire moderne et psychanalyste dont le travail explore la nature du moi privé. Il examine comment les concepts de vie privée et d'intimité façonnent nos vies et notre compréhension de nous-mêmes. Cohen analyse comment les œuvres littéraires révèlent les aspects cachés de la psyché humaine, offrant des perspectives uniques sur nos motivations les plus profondes. Son approche, ancrée dans la tradition psychanalytique et la critique littéraire, offre aux lecteurs une lentille profonde pour contempler les complexités de l'expérience humaine.
Not Working
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
How inactivity works - and how it can be a necessary and creative condition for a life worth living.
Radiohead for Solo Piano
- 104pages
- 4 heures de lecture
Josh Cohen: Radiohead for Solo Piano is a beautifully produced collection of some of Radiohead's best-loved songs, arranged for intermediate piano solo (with lyrics) by pianist Josh Cohen. These exclusive transcriptions were made popular by Cohen's YouTube channel, and the book includes a playing guide and introduction from the arranger. This band-approved book features a specially designed cover and mono prints throughout from Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood.