El diario in嶮ito de Joan Didion. Un libro extraordinario que completa un tr甑tico compuesto tambi幯 por El a隳 del pensamiento m墔ico y Noches azules.
«Escribo estrictamente para averiguar qu?estoy pensando, qu?estoy mirando, qu?veo y qu?significa .
En noviembre de 1999, Joan Didion empez?a visitar a un psiquiatra porque, como escribi?a un amigo, su familia hab燰 estado pasando «unos a隳s dif獳iles . Durante meses, registr?sus encuentros con meticuloso detalle en un diario destinado a su marido, John Gregory Dunne.
Las sesiones iniciales se centraron en el alcoholismo, la adopci鏮, la depresi鏮, la ansiedad, la culpa y las desgarradoras complejidades de la relaci鏮 con su hija Quintana. Estos asuntos mutaron hasta abarcar su trabajo, que le resultaba dif獳il mantener durante per甐dos prolongados. Hubo discusiones sobre su propia infancia --malentendidos y falta de comunicaci鏮 con su madre y su padre, as?como la temprana tendencia de la joven Joan a anticipar cat嫳trofes-- y la cuesti鏮 del legado, o, como ella lo expresaba, «lo que ha valido .
El diario de Didion fue elaborado con la precisi鏮, la lucidez y la elegancia que caracterizan a la autora. Sin embargo, aqu?aparece tambi幯 una Joan Didion que nunca hab燰mos visto:
Apuntes para John es el registro extraordinariamente 璯timo de un viaje doloroso y valiente en la vida de una de las m嫳 grandes escritoras de nuestro tiempo.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights
In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had "a rough few years." She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods. There were discussions about her own childhood--misunderstandings and lack of communication with her mother and father, her early tendency to anticipate catastrophe--and the question of legacy, or, as she put it, "what it's been worth." The analysis would continue for more than a decade.
Didion's journal was crafted with the singular intelligence, precision, and elegance that characterize all of her writing. It is an unprecedently intimate account that reveals sides of her that were unknown, but the voice is unmistakably hers--questioning, courageous, and clear in the face of a wrenchingly painful journey.
