A View from the Bed and Other Observations by Jenny Diski (2-Oct-2003) Paperback

by Jenny Diski

El cáustico ingenio de la autora brilla en unos textos periodísticos rigurosos y nada complacientes, que dejan el aromático regusto de una buena conversación. No en vano, en el prólogo, Diski nos invita a que los tomemos como punto de partida de futuros debates, que a muchos tal vez nos gustará entablar.

Genres: Essays

Paperback

First published October 2, 2003

About the author

Jenny Diski was a British writer. Diski was a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction articles, reviews and books. She was awarded the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions.

Reviews

[Connie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Topical essays by the wonderful Jenny Diski. You can also access most of them on The London Review of Books website for free.

[Menno Beek · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I read 'Skating to Antartica' of Diski, I bought two other books of her online immediately, because I wanted to read more of a writer this good. This book was not the best follow up: it is a collection of essays and reviews she wrote for English news papers and magazines, and most of it was probably fine for the periodicals but is not really surviving, even though she's still very funny and wise. Take for instance page 76:

"So when after dinner as I sat surrounded by dons classical, literary and historical in the senior room [in Cambridge] I was not surprised to hear Don one, opposite me, ask the assembles illustriousness if anyone was able to come up with a line written in the 20th century that could better anything written by Ovid. I was about to lob Joseph heller into the ensuing, thoughtful silence - 'Cunnilingus, like herding sheep, is a dark and solitary business, but someone has to do it' when I was saved from being consigned to the academic wheelie bin [..] by Don Two who began reciting [Bob Dylan]"