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-Titulo Original : Super-infinite The Transformations Of John Donne

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Farrar, Straus And Giroux

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About the Author Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her bestselling books for children have been translated into more than thirty languages and have won multiple awards. Rundell is also the author of a book for adults, Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise, and writes occasionally for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times. Winner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year old girl without her father’s consent; struggled to feed a family of ten children; and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from black surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. Review “I had many thoughts while reading Super-Infinite, but the most persistent one was this: there ought to be more books like it . . . Rundell is an excellent storyteller, moving ably between anecdote and analysis and never losing track of her purpose, which is to follow Donne from cradle to grave and convince us to come along.” Anahid Nersessian, New York Review of Books “Katherine Rundell brings us a fresh take on the poems, prose, and protean identities of a 17th-century master of the English language. Super-Infinite is both humble and flashy. Humble because John Donne’s life and work lie on a path well-trodden by scholars; flashy because Rundell is a playful, incandescent stylist who brings scintillating insight to her subject.” Bob Duffy, Washington Independent Review of Books “Katherine Rundell titles her new biography of Donne Super-Infinite. It’s an ingenious way of making his difficulty sound exciting as well as formidable . . . [Rundell] writes with both the knowledge of an expert and the friendly passion of a proselytizer. Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker “One of my favorite reads lately is Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, Katherine Rundell’s dizzyingly fun biography of a poet who lived headlong. Free of charge, it throws in a rollicking snapshot of Elizabethan England.” Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune “Rundell offers a rich analysis . . . which rises to the challenge of introducing Donne and his world to the next generation of readers” James Shapiro, The New York Times “If you want to experience Donne anew, or if you have never experienced him before, pick up a copy of Super-Infinite. It’s the best book on Donne in years. Micah Mattix, Washington Examiner “Fresh, delightful . . . [Rundell] nimbly captures Donne in all his guises as well as the historical period in which he lived . . . Written with verve and panache, this sparkling biography is enjoyable from start to finish.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A wonderful, joyous piece of work . . . with fierce, interrogative intelligence. It is fantastic to have this most elusive and mysterious of men brought out into the light, for all to see.” Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet “[An] important new biography of the greatest metaphysical poet who ever lived (and lived, and lived, and lived…).” Jonny Diamond, Lit Hub (most anticipated) “Katherine Rundell makes Donne come alive as a remarkable and extraordinary and almost boundless human being. His life was one of despair and joy, the sacred and the profane, deep love and pain, and this book is filled with such infectious passion and fascinating detail that it shines l