‘Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?’
‘I’m rather glad I’m not. I’m quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.’
Over the course of seven decades, Jonathan Miller has been at the forefront of developments in theatre, opera, comedy, philosophy and scientific debate. This new collection brings together the very best of his acerbic writing. In keeping with Miller’s grasshopper mind, One Thing and Another leaps from discussions of human behaviour, atheism, satire, cinema and television, to analysis of the work of M. R. James, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and Truman Capote, by way of reflections on directing Shakespeare, Chekhov, Olivier and opera. A celebrated conversationalist, the book also features a selection of key interviews focusing on his working method. Jonathan Miller is internationally celebrated as one of the last great public intellectuals. Read One Thing and Another to find out why.
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The book guides the reader through Miller's revue writing in the 1950s and 1960s, to his emergence as a public intellectual and as enfant terrible of the international opera circuit from the mid-70s to the present day.
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Foreword
A Note on the Text
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Collected Writings
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Jonathan Miller changed my life so often and made it so much better that were he to become a religion I should immediately renounce apostasy and join.
A fully-authorized comprehensive collection of Miller’s best-known writing from one of the world’s leading public intellectuals.
A fully-authorized comprehensive collection of Miller’s best-known writing from one of the world’s leading public intellectuals
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781783197453
Publisert
2017-03-01
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Vendor
Oberon Books Ltd
Vekt
544 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
200
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