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2005년 전미 도서상을 수상한『The Year of Magical Thinking』은 40여 년 동안 일상을 함께해온 남편의 갑작스러운 죽음을 받아들이는 과정을 기록한 에세이다. 평범했던 일상이 끔찍한 나날로 변해가는 과정에 대한 빈틈없는 기록이자 섬광처럼 불현듯 뚫고 지나가는 기억들과 벌이는 사투이다. 무엇보다 이 책은 극심한 고통을 작가 특유의 섬세한 문체와 지적인 논리로 기록했다는 점에서 문학적 성과도 인정받았다. 이 작품은 상실로 인한 비통함이 어떤 식으로 이성을 마비시키고‘마법’을 꿈꾸게 만드는지 소름 끼칠 정도로 정확히 묘사해내‘애도 문학’의 새로운 전기를 마련했다는 평을 받았다.

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage?and a life, in good times and bad?that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later?the night before New Year’s Eve?the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.

This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.” [예스24 제공]

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