Audiobooks by Deborah Levy

Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera: Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy. ¿Qué quiere decir ser libre como mujer o como artista? ¿Y cuál es el precio de esta libertad? Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivirforman la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy, un relato de la feminidad como libertad y no como castigo. Deborah Levy empieza a escribir este libro cuando, con cincuenta años, se ve forzada a reinventarse: su matrimonio ha terminado, sus ingresos escasean, su madre se está muriendo y sus hijas empiezan a abandonar el nido. En un momento en que la vida tendría que volverse plácida e imperturbable,Levy decide abrazar el caos y la inestabilidad a cambio de recuperar, oculto bajo capas y capas de resignación, un nombre propio. A través de un diálogo con intelectuales como Marguerite Duras o Simone de Beauvoir, y mediante recuerdos que evoca con elocuencia, sensibilidad y un delicioso sentido del humor, Levy se pregunta cuál es ese papel ficticio escrito por hombres e interpretado por mujeresal que llamamos «feminidad». Cualquiera que haya luchado por ser libre y por construir una vida propia sabe que es precisamente eso: una lucha constante en la que se paga un coste por vivir. La crítica ha dicho... «Sabia, sutil e irónica. Cada frase de Levy es una obra de arte de claridad y elegancia. Una escritora brillante.» The Daily Telegraph «Una observadora astuta de lo mundano y lo inexplicable. Levy esboza detalles memorables en pocos trazos.» The New York Times Book Review «Un manifiesto para un estilo de vida arriesgado y radical, como seguir nadando cuando ya no haces pie.» The New Statesman «Levy, a sus cincuenta y largos, no escribe sobre su vida para su generación, sino para las que vienen.» Harper's Magazine « El coste de vivir es el precio que debe pagar una mujer para desmontar un hogar en el que ya no se siente como en casa. Para Levy, este acto radical da inicio a la búsqueda de una nueva vida que resulta inseparable de la búsqueda de una nueva narrativa.» The Times «Unmanifiesto elocuente para lo que Levy llama 'una nueva manera de vivir en el mundo post-familiar'.» The Guardian «Esta mirada oportuna al modo en que las mujeres son vistas (y a menudo ignoradas) resonará entre muchos lectores.» Publishers Weekly «Bello, melancólico. El poder de las palabras para conceder vida tras lamuerte y la importancia de escoger lo que sigue vivo entre lo que ha muerto están en el corazón de la exquisita prosa de Levy.» The Spectator «Extraordinario y bello. Extendiéndose amplia y profundamente sobre el matrimonio, la maternidad,el amor, la muerte y la amistad, esta obra está repleta de una inteligencia feroz, una humanidad generosa y unas ideas afiladas.» The Financial Times

Deborah Levy (Author), Conchi Ramírez De Haro (Narrator)

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Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection: 30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot

22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations In these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps of the past; and - in the case of Robert Macfarlane - along the ridges of the South Downs. Dawnwalks and Night Walks find Nicholas Shakespeare, Nicola Barker, Kamila Shamsie, Ian Sansom, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Owen Sheers, Janice Galloway and John Walsh taking early morning and late-night strolls around locations ranging from their back garden and local cemetery to Manhattan, Paris, Tasmania and the Antarctic. Springwalks and Winterwalks feature Michele Roberts, Ross Raisin, John Walsh, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Hoare, Deborah Levy, Christopher Hope, Scarlett Thomas, Erica Wagner and Owen Sheers, as they sample the transforming qualities of spring and the wonders of winter. From Poland and the Languedoc to Hampstead Heath and the Yorkshire Wolds, they delight in the details of the landscape and reflect on what it means to them. Strange Strolls sees Jenn Ashworth, Michael Donkor, Stephanie Victoire, Nat Segnit and Sophie Coulombeau embarking on walks of entertaining eccentricity, revisiting favourite places including Wandsworth Bridge, the Blue Ridge mountains of Appalachia and Ibiza. And in A Five-Day Journey, Robert Macfarlane walks the length of the South Downs in monsoon rain and in sunshine, discovering its chalk trails and its ghosts. He ponders the relationship between paths and stories; explores the poet Edward Thomas' love affair with tracks; considers the concept of the Aboriginal Australian songline; re-imagines the life of artist Eric Ravilious; and contemplates the sometimes eerie relationship between walking, collecting and creation. Intimate, evocative and immersive, these 30 uplifting programmes transport us to a wealth of wonderful places, and offer fascinating personal insight into the inner worlds of our walker-writers. Production credits Produced by Duncan Minshull, Ciaran Bermingham and Tim Dee First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on the following dates: Dawnwalks Nicholas Shakespeare 28 March 2016 Nicola Barker 29 March 2016 Kamila Shamsie 30 March 2016 Ian Sansom 31 March 2016 Lucy Hughes-Hallett 1 April 2016 Night Walks Nicholas Shakespeare 27 October 2008 Owen Sheers 28 October 2008 Janice Galloway 29 October 2008 Kamila Shamsie 30 October 2008 John Walsh 31 October 2008 Springwalks Michele Roberts in Poznan 31 March 2014 Ross Raisin in the Yorkshire Wolds 1 April 2014 John Walsh 2 April 2014 Kirsty Gunn in Sutherland 3 April 2014 Philip Hoare in Sholing 4 April 2014 Winterwalks Deborah Levy on Hampstead Heath 18 February 2013 Christopher Hope in Languedoc 19 February 2013 Scarlett Thomas 20 February 2013 Erica Wagner 21 February 2013 Owen Sheers in Poland 22 February 2013 Strange Strolls Jenn Ashworth - The Abiding Mental Riches of Preston 10 February 2020 Michael Donkor - On Westminster Bridge 11 February 2020 Stephanie Victoire - Dark Hollow Falls 12 February 2020 Nat Segnit - The Other Ibiza 13 February 2020 Sophie Coulombeau - Walking Matilda 14 February 2020 A Five-Day Journey Marking 2 November 2009 Haunting 3 November 2009 Singing 4 November 2009 Flying 5 November 2009 Collecting 6 November 2009 © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

Christopher Hope, Deborah Levy, Erica Wagner, Ian Samson, Jenn Ashworth, Kamila Shamsie, Kirsty Gunn, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Michael Donkor, Michèle Roberts, Nat Segnit, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nicola Barker, Owen Sheers, Philip Hoare, Robert MacFarlane, Robert Macfarlane, Ross Raisin, Scarlett Thomas, Sophie Coulombeau (Author), Various (Narrator)

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Una casa propia

El cierre de la Autobiografía en construcción de una Deborah Levy que logra su habitación propia. Deborah Levy imagina una casa en una latitud cálida, cerca de un lago o de un mar. Allí hay una chimenea y un mayordomo que atiende sus deseos, hasta el de discutir. Pero Levy en realidad está en Londres, no tiene dinero para construir el hogar que imagina, su apartamento es minúsculo y lo más parecido a un jardín en su casa es un banano al que entrega los cuidados que sus hijas ya no necesitan. La menor ha abandonado el nido, y Levy, a sus cincuenta y nueve años, está lista para afrontar una nueva etapa en su vida. Así, nos lleva desde Nueva York a Bombay, pasando por Parísy Berlín, mientras teje una estimulante y audaz reflexión sobre el significado del hogar y de los espectros que lo acechan. Entretejiendo el pasado y el presente, lo personal y lo político, y convocando a Marguerite Duras, Elena Ferrante, Georgia O’Keeffe o Céline Schiamma, la autora indaga en el significado de la feminidad y de la propiedad. A través de sus recuerdos hace inventario de sus posesiones reales e imaginariasy cuestiona nuestra forma de entender el valor de la vida intelectual y cotidiana de la mujer. Después de Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, esta obra es la culminación de una autobiografía escrita en el fragor de una vida que no está solamente protagonizada por Levy, sino por todas las mujeres que la sostienen con una red invisible. Reseñas: «Lavoz imprevisible,tierna,incisiva, entristecida y entusiasta de la Levy biógrafa ofrece un festín literario.» Gonzalo Torné, El Cultural «Por supuesto, Levy es feminista, su autobiografía desvela no solo una postura como mujer, también esa visión impregna otros temas como la migración, el imperialismo, el racismo o el amor. Estos textos según Levy tenían que narrar dos aspectos que nunca coexisten: el poder de los hombres y la vulnerabilidad que se permite la mujer al escribir.» Ariana Basciani, The Objective Sobre Cosas que no quiero saber: «Una narración vivaz y brillante sobre cómo los detalles más inocentes de la vida personal de una escritora pueden alcanzar el poder en la ficción.» The New York Times Book Review «Un relato vívido y sorprendente de la vida de la escritora, que feminiza y personaliza las contundentes a afirmaciones de Orwell.» The Spectator Sobre El coste de vivir: «Derrocha en el segundo tomo de su autobiografía tanto hallazgos expresivos como verdades acendradas [...] en un tapiz algo descosido que sin embargo se lee con delectación y donde rubrica sobre todo el regreso a los planteamientos de Simone de Beauvoir en El segundo sexo; estoes, vuelve a admitir la dificultad desquiciante de conjugar pareja, maternidad e independencia intelectual.» El Periódico «El coste de vivir es el precio que debe pagar una mujer para desmontar un hogar en el que ya no se siente como en casa. Para Levy, este actoradicalda inicio a la búsqueda de una nueva vida que resulta inseparable de la búsqueda de una nueva narrativa.» The Times

Deborah Levy (Author), Conchi Ramírez De Haro (Narrator)

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Cosas que no quiero saber

Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera: Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste de vivir, la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy. Cosas que no quiero saber y El coste devivir forman la «autobiografía en construcción» de Deborah Levy,un relato de la feminidad como libertad y no como castigo, ambos galardonados con el Premio Femina 2020 de novela extranjera. Deborah Levy arranca estas memorias recordando la etapa de su vida en que rompía a llorar cuando subía unas escaleras mecánicas. Esemovimiento inocuo la llevaba a rincones de su memoria a los que no quería volver. Son esos recuerdos los que forman Cosas que no quiero saber, el inicio de su «autobiografía en construcción». Esta primera parte de lo que será un tríptico sobre la condición de ser mujer nace como respuesta al ensayo «Por qué escribo», de George Orwell. Sin embargo, Levy no viene a dar respuestas. Viene a abrir interrogantes que deja flotando en una atmósfera formada por toda la fuerza poética de su escritura. Su magia no es otra que la de las conexiones impredecibles de la memoria: el primer mordisco a un albaricoque la traslada a la salida de sus hijos de la escuela, observando a las otras madres, «jóvenes convertidas en sombras de lo que habían sido»; el llanto de una mujer le devuelve la nieve cayendo sobre su padre en el Johannesburgo del apartheid, poco antes de ser encarcelado; el olor del curry la lleva a su adolescencia en Londres, escribiendo en servilletas de bares y soñando con una habitación propia. Leer a Levy es querer entrar en sus recuerdos y dejarse llevar por la calma y el aplomo de quien ha aprendido todo lo que sabe (y todo lo que no querría saber) a fuerza de buscar su propia voz. Reseñas: «Imprescindible. Leerla es como encontrar un oasis.» The Guardian «El punto fuerte de Levy es su originalidad de pensamiento y expresión.» Jeanette Winterson «Una narración vivaz y brillante sobre cómo los detalles más inocentes de la vida personal de una escritora pueden alcanzar el poder en la ficción.» The New York Times Book Review «Un relato vívido y sorprendente de la vida de la escritora, que feminiza y personaliza las contundentes a afirmaciones de Orwell.» The Spectator «Levy es una escritora hábil y crea un despliegue de emociones intensas en una prosa precisa y controlada.» The Independent «Una versión actualizada de Una habitación propia [...]. Sospecho que será citado durante muchos años.» The Irish Examiner

Deborah Levy (Author), Conchi Ramírez De Haro (Narrator)

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Real Estate

Brought to you by Penguin. From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international critical acclaim of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it. 'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally, her physical property and possessions, and then everything else she valued, though it might not be valued by society. What might she claim, own, discard and bequeath? Or is she the real estate, owned by patriarchy? In this sense, Real Estate is a tricky business. We rent it and buy it, sell and inherit it - but we must also knock it down.' 'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A Pandemic. A love story.' 'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer on The Cost of Living 'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy's every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise... A brilliant writer' Daily Telegraph on The Cost of Living 'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor-sharp insights' Financial Times on The Cost of Living © Deborah Levy 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Deborah Levy (Author), Juliet Stevenson (Narrator)

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The Man Who Saw Everything

***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** Brought to you by Penguin. Electrifying and audacious, an unmissable new novel about old and new Europe, old and new love, from the twice-Man Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home 'The man who had nearly run me over had touched my hair, as if he were touching a statue or something without a heartbeat...' In 1988 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is apparently fine; he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. They have sex then break up, but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road. Saul leaves to study in communist East Berlin, two months before the Wall comes down. There he will encounter - significantly - both his assigned translator and his translator's sister, who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city. He will fall in love and brood upon his difficult, authoritarian father. And he will befriend a hippy, Rainer, who may or may not be a Stasi agent, but will certainly return to haunt him in middle age. Slipping slyly between time zones and leaving a spiralling trail, Deborah Levy's electrifying The Man Who Saw Everything examines what we see and what we fail to see, the grave crime of carelessness, the weight of history and our ruinous attempts to shrug it off. 'Levy writes on the high wire, unfalteringly' Marina Warner

Deborah Levy (Author), George Blagden (Narrator)

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The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman. The Cost of Living explores the subtle erasure of women's names, spaces, and stories in the modern everyday. In this "living autobiography" infused with warmth and humor, Deborah Levy critiques the roles that society assigns to us and reflects on the politics of breaking with the usual gendered rituals. What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage? Levy draws on her own experience of attempting to live with pleasure, value, and meaning-the making of a new kind of family home, the challenges of her mother's death-and those of women she meets in everyday life, from a young female traveler reading in a bar who suppresses her own words while she deflects an older man's advances, to a particularly brilliant student, to a kindly and ruthless octogenarian bookseller who offers the author a place to write at a difficult time in her life. The Cost of Living is urgent, essential reading, a crystalline manifesto for turbulent times.

Deborah Levy (Author), Henrietta Meire (Narrator)

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Things I Don't Want to Know

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy, read by Juliet Stevenson. Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory as a young woman and shape it to her need. Things I Don't Want to Know is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour, from one of our most vital contemporary writers. 'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly... Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian 'Superb sharpness and originality of imagination. An inspiring work of writing' Marina Warner

Deborah Levy (Author), Juliet Stevenson (Narrator)

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The Cost of Living

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy. 'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it together...' Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know left off, this short, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and bereavement, and emerging renewed from the ashes of a former life. Faced with the restrictions of conventional living, she dismantles her life, expands it and puts it back together in a new shape. Writing as brilliantly as ever about mothers and daughters, about social pressures and the female experience, Deborah Levy confronts a world not designed to accommodate difficult women and ultimately remakes herself in her own image.

Deborah Levy (Author), Juliet Stevenson (Narrator)

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The Unloved

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Unloved by Deborah Levy, read by Sally Scott. A group of hedonistic West European tourists gather to celebrate Christmas in a remote French chateau. Then an Englishwoman is brutally murdered, and the sad, eerie child Tatiana declares she knows who did it. The subsequent inquiry into the death proves to be more of an investigation into the nature of love, insatiable rage and sadistic desire. The Unloved offers a bold and revealing look at some of the events that shaped European and African history, and the perils of a future founded on concealed truth.

Deborah Levy (Author), Sally Scott (Narrator)

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Beautiful Mutants

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beautiful Mutants by Deborah Levy, read by Kristen Atherton. Levy's surreal and artful first novel, Beautiful Mutants, introduces Lapinski -- the manipulative and magical Russian exile who summons forth a number of urban pilgrims in a shimmering contemporary allegory about broken dreams and desires . . . 'A stunningly original writer' Kirsty Gunn 'It throbs its way into the imagination like the unguided missiles it decries' Observer 'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson

Deborah Levy (Author), Kristin Atherton (Narrator)

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Swallowing Geography

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy, read by Gabrielle Glaister. Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and displaced peoples. 'A stunningly original writer' Kirsty Gunn 'One of the few British writers comfortable on a world stage' New Statesman 'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression' Jeanette Winterson

Deborah Levy (Author), Gabrielle Glaister (Narrator)

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