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100 Days - Gabriel Josipovici

100 Days

By: Gabriel Josipovici

Paperback | 23 March 2022

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When, in March 2019, the Covid pandemic led the Government to impose a total lockdown on ordinary life, Gabriel Josipovici began to write a diary tracing his life under the new dispensation. 100 Days responds to the escalating crisis, as well as to the arrival of Spring and then of Summer on the South Downs, but it is mainly concerned with a kind of accounting. Characteristically inventive, Josipovici chooses the ABC as a prospecting implement to stimulate reflection on subjects that run from Aachen to Alexandria, from Berio to the Border Ballads, from Zazie dans le metro to Zoos.

Previously, he reminds us, he has 'plundered episodes in my life to illustrate the intertwining of memory and forgetting, the desire to remember and the need to forget.' 'Elly said to me after reading my recent book Forgetting,' he goes on, '"You don't seem to be afraid of revealing a great deal about yourself." But I don't think I feel it that way. I can "reveal" precisely because it does not seem to be part of me, it seems to belong to someone else, a writer I have lived with, an immigrant I have known.'

Josipovici's book, more than a meditation on a hundred days of the pandemic, is a reckoning with one writer's life, with his life's work and with his readers.

About the Author

Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a First in 1961. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Sussex. He is the author of nineteen novels, three volumes of short stories, eight critical works, and numerous stage and radio plays, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.

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