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03250aam a22004218i 4500 001 5545704A28C611EC8818A65F53ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211009010026 008 210301s2021 nyu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020057288 020 $a 0593316207 020 $a 9780593316207 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PN3352.P7 $b C58 2021 082 00 $a 809.3/9353 $2 23 100 1 $a Cohen, Josh, $d 1970- $e author. 245 10 $a How to live, what to do : $b in search of ourselves in life and literature / $c Josh Cohen. 250 $a First American edition. 263 $a 2110 264 1 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c [2021] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Childhood part 1 : play -- Childhood part 2 : schooling -- Adolescence part 1 : rebellion -- Adolescence part 2 : first love -- Adulthood part 1 : ambition -- Adulthood part 2 : marriage -- Adulthood part 3 : middle age -- Old age and dying. 520 $a "Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature - chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age - a brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction. In supple and elegant prose, and with all the expertise and insight of his dual profession, Josh Cohen illuminates a new way to understand ourselves. He helps us see what Lewis Carroll's Alice or Harper Lee's Scout Finch can teach us about childhood. He delineates the mysteries of education instanced in Jane Eyre or Sandy Stringer in The Prime of Miss Jane Brody; the need for adolescent rebellion dramatized by John Grimes in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain and Ruthin Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. He makes clear what Goethe's Young Werther and Sally Rooney's Frances have in common, or not, as they experience first love; how Jay Gatsby helps us to understand ambition, Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke the vicissitudes of marriage, and Mrs. Dalloway the inexorability of disappointment. As for old age and death, he explores what wisdom we may glean from John Ames in Marilynn Robinson's Gilead or Don Fabrizio in Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard. From maddening jealousy to unbearable grief, from transcendent love to bottomless hatred, How to Live, What to Do invites us to ponder deep questions about the human experience - about the ties that bind us all"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Psychoanalysis and literature. 650 0 $a Fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Conduct of life in literature. 650 0 $a Characters and characteristics in literature. 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Cohen, Josh, 1970- $t How to live. What to do. $b First American edition. $d New York : Pantheon Books, [2021] $z 9780593316214 $w (DLC) 2020057289 941 $a 4 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611013328.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024241.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20211203010630.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211019010415.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5545704A28C611EC8818A65F53ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search