New Releases by Marilynne Robinson

One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis. For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true. Both of these approaches preclude an appreciation of its greatness as literature, its rich articulation and exploration of themes that resonate through the whole of Scripture. Marilynne Robinson’s Reading Genesis is a powerful consideration of the profound meanings and promise of God’s enduring covenant with man. This magisterial book radiates gratitude for the constancy and benevolence of God’s abiding faith in Creation.

In tutta la sua opera, narrativa e saggistica, Marilynne Robinson ha costruito una critica appassionata della società contemporanea – con la sua dipendenza dalla tecnologia e il suo materialismo – nel nome di un profondo umanesimo che recuperi il nostro valore in quanto creature divine, per quanto fallibili e predatorie. Nei diciassette saggi di questa raccolta, Robinson spazia – con la profondità e la limpidezza che i suoi lettori hanno imparato a conoscere – lungo un ampio spettro di temi: dalla capacità dei grandi pensatori del passato (Calvino, Locke, Shakespeare) di influenzare e guidare le nostre vite, all''ascesa di un''élite autoproclamatasi tale, che rischia di corrompere la vita politica e religiosa degli Stati Uniti, allontanandola dai valori della democrazia e della fede. Una lettura indispensabile, per comprendere e apprezzare ancor meglio la lucida visione che ha ispirato romanzi memorabili come Gilead e Lila, e per guardare con nuova consapevolezza l''America e la crisi profonda che ne sta prosciugando il sogno.

A New York Times bestseller Named a Best Book of 2020 by the Australian Book Review, AV Club, Books-a-Million, Electric Literature, Esquire, the Financial Times, Good Housekeeping (UK), The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Literary Hub, the New Statesman, the New York Public Library, NPR, the Star Tribune, and TIME Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction Marilynne Robinson’s mythical world of Gilead, Iowa—the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack—and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson’s fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now. Robinson’s Gilead novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity.

Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson''s Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille''s struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transcience.

ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΜΠΕΣΤ ΣΕΛΕΡ ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΚΥΚΛΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΩΝ ΚΡΙΤΙΚΩΝ Μια από τις µεγαλύτερες µορφές της σύγχρονης αµερικανικής πεζογραφίας, η πολυβραβευµένη Marilynne Robinson µε αυτό το βιβλίο µάς προσφέρει ένα βαθιά ανθρώπινο µυθιστόρηµα που αφηγείται την ιστορία τριών γενιών και καλύπτει χρονικά την περίοδο από τον αµερικανικό Εµφύλιο ως τον 20ό αιώνα. Στον πυρήνα του βρίσκονται οι σχέσεις ανάµεσα σε πατέρες και γιους, καθώς και οι µεγάλες πνευµατικές διαµάχες που ακόµη µαίνονται στην καρδιά της Αµερικής. Το µυθιστόρηµα της Robinson, που ακολουθεί τη συγγραφική παράδοση των Έµιλι Ντίκινσον και Γουόλτ Γουίτµαν, είναι µεγάλο όσο ένα έθνος, ήσυχο όσο µια σκέψη, κατανυκτικό όσο µια προσευχή. Μέσα από τη λαµπρή και αξέχαστη φωνή του ήρωά του, του πάστορα Τζον Έιµς, το Γκίλιαντ µάς αποκαλύπτει την ανθρώπινη συνθήκη και τη συχνά αβάσταχτη οµορφιά µιας συνηθισµένης ζωής. ΕΓΡΑΨΑΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΒΙΒΛΙΟ Το Γκίλιαντ µάς θυµίζει πως οι λέξεις έχουν τη δύναµη να µας προσφέρουν έλεος, συγχώρεση και να αποδώσουν δικαιοσύνη. Independent Σε µια εποχή που η πολιτιστική µας ιστορία κατακλύζεται από το εφήµερο, το επιφανειακό, το εύκολο, η Marilynne Robinson είναι µια θαυµαστή ανωµαλία: µια συγγραφέας που µε περίσκεψη, προσοχή και επιµονή διερευνά κάποια από τα βαθύτερα ζητήµατα που αφορούν το ανθρώπινο είδος... Εύστοχο, καθηλωτικό, λυρικό... Η Robinson καταφέρνει να µας µεταδώσει το θαύµα της ίδιας της ύπαρξης. Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Hjemme udspiller sig i 1956 i Gilead, den lille by i Iowa, hvor også Marilynne Robinsons forrige roman, Gilead, foregik. Denne gang er vi i hjemmet hos pastor Robert Boughton, John Ames'' nærmeste ven. Glory Boughton er i en alder af 38 år modvilligt vendt tilbage til Gilead for at pleje sin døende far. Snart kommer også hendes bror, Jack, hjem - efter at have været bortrejst i tyve år. Jack er den fortabte søn, familiens sorte får, og han har altid været ́en skidt knægt'', som aldrig har kunnet fastholde et job, konstant er på kant med sine omgivelser og sin konservative far - og dog forbliver han det barn, Boughton elsker allerhøjest. Mens Jack forsøger at forsone sig med sin far og fortidens synder, knytter han bånd til Glory, der selv er vendt hjem med et knust hjerte og en turbulent fortid. Hjemme er en bog om familier, om forældre og børn, om kærlig og død, tro og tilgivelse. Romanen er en selvstændig ledsager til Gilead.

Un roman bouleversant sur la famille, les secrets qu''elle recèle, la fuite du temps et la succession des générations. S''articulant autour des questions de l''amour, de la mort et de la foi, ce livre est probablement le chef-d''oeuvre de l''auteur (prix Pulitzer 2005) dans la manière inimitable qu''il a d''incarner les émotions et les affects les plus profonds et les plus universels.

The Book Club Kindles contain selections from the library''s Table Talk and Cover to Cover Book Clubs as well as celebrity book club picks from Oprah Winfrey, Jenna Bush Hager, and Reese Witherspoon.

Um den erfundenen Ort Gilead hat Marilynne Robinson eine Erzählwelt geschaffen, die Roman für Roman weiterwächst. Gilead ist keine Idylle, sondern eine Stadt, die für den Leser zum Mittelpunkt eines ganzen Kosmos wird. In »Zuhause« kehrt Glory Boughton nach Gilead zurück, um ihren sterbenden Vater zu pflegen. Kurz darauf findet auch ihr Bruder Jack nach 20 Jahren heim, der »Bad Boy« der Familie, der zu viel trinkt und zu wenig tut. Jack eckt bei allen an – und doch ist er der Liebling des Vaters. Allmählich knüpft er ein enges Band zu seiner Schwester, hütet aber weiter ein großes Geheimnis – einen Konflikt aus dem dunklen Amerika, in dem Hautfarbe und Leidenschaft Hass gebären. »Zuhause« ist ein auf leise, präzise Art schonungsloses Buch, in dem Marilynne Robinson die Kontraste ihrer Welt um den fiktiven Ort Gilead noch eindringlicher zeichnet. Sie erzählt mit großer Meisterschaft von Scham und Würde, von Gnade und Vergebung, und wieder gelingt es ihr, dem Trost ein Zuhause zu geben. »Eine unserer größten lebenden Romanautorinnen.« Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”

Dans ce recueil d’essais, Marilynne Robinson convoque une pensée élaborée sur la longue durée pour approfondir les grands thèmes qui n’ont cessé de nourrir son œuvre et d’accompagner son parcours : de la fragmentation sociale à l’œuvre dans nos sociétés à la vulnérabilité de l’homme en passant par la question – pour elle centrale – de la foi. S’élevant contre la tentation contemporaine de séculariser et de rationaliser le monde à outrance, ce livre d’intervention qui interroge les choix politiques et économiques de nos sociétés et les limites de plus en plus patentes d’un capitalisme manipulateur, constitue un plaidoyer contre l’austérité sous toute ses formes et défend la primauté de l’éthique pour accéder à des solutions authentiques allant de pair avec un nécessaire dépassement de soi.

"The story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille''s struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience."--

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating technologies for material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there is still much to give us hope. In The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson delivers an impassioned critique of our contemporary society while arguing that reverence must be given to who we are and what we are: creatures of singular interest and value, despite our errors and depredations. Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her award-winning novels, and in her new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern predicament and the mysteries of faith. These seventeen essays examine the ideas that have inspired and provoked one of our finest writers throughout her life. Whether she is investigating how the work of the great thinkers of the past--Calvin, Locke, Bonhoeffer, and Shakespeare--can infuse our lives, or calling attention to the rise of the self-declared élite in American religious and political life, Robinson''s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on display. Exquisite and bold, this is a call for us to find wisdom and guidance in our cultural heritage, and to offer grace to one another.--Adapted from book jacket.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead with the unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe and wonder Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church—the only available shelter from the rain—and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood of itinerant work. Together they crafted a life on the run, existing hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, the times they shared were laced with joy. After Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to harmonize the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with her husband''s gentle Christian worldview, which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead and and Orange Prize–winning Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become a classic.

Ein kleiner Ort in den Rocky Mountains, Mitte der 1950er. Hier wachsen die Schwestern Ruth und Lucille bei ihrer Großmutter auf. Nach deren Tod übernimmt ihre Tante Sylvie den Haushalt. Und während die verträumte Ruthie sich von der eigenbrötlerischen Art der Tante angezogen fühlt, sehnt sich Lucille nach Normalität. Die beiden werden einander immer fremder ... Eine poetische, gefühlskluge Geschichte über Landstreicherinnen und Heimatlosigkeit, Stille und Anderssein.

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town ''chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere. Ruth and Lucille''s struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.

Poetisk skildring fra en lille by i USA af to forældreløse pigers opvækst hos kvinderne i slægten

A New York Times Book Review Editors'' Choice A New York Times Bestseller A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Gilead Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor. In "Austerity as Ideology," she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In "Open Thy Hand Wide" she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in "When I Was a Child," one of her most personal essays to date, an account of her childhood in Idaho becomes an exploration of individualism and the myth of the American West. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our essential writers.

Da autora de Gilead, vencedor do prêmio Pulitzer"O raciocínio de Robinson é profético, profundo, eloquente, sucinto, poderoso e oportuno." — The Guardian"Adorei ler Além da razão. Por quê? É sempre um prazer estar na companhia de alguém que leva as ideias a sério." — Siri Hustvedt, Financial TimesNeste livro ambicioso, a aclamada Marilynne Robinson usa seu talento para abordar um tema bastante perturbador — a relação entre ciência, religião e conhecimento. Trabalhado com o mesmo cuidado e discernimento do seu romance premiado — Gilead —, Além da razão desafia os ateus pós-modernos e sua cruzada contra a religião sob a égide da ciência.Na visão da autora, a razão científica não pressupõe a infalibilidade lógica, como talvez seja entendido no discurso de pensadores como Richard Dawkins. Pelo contrário, em sua forma mais pura, a ciência representa a busca por respostas, dedicando-se com afinco ao mistério do conhecimento, mais do que a garantir um modelo da realidade simples e decisivo.Por defender a importância da reflexão individual, Robinson promove o poder e as diversas formas do conhecimento humano, seguindo a tradição de William James. Ela explora a natureza da subjetividade levando em conta a cultura em que Freud estava inserido e como isso influenciou seu modelo de indivíduo e de civilização.Por meio de primorosas interpretações de linguagem, emoção, ciência e poesia, Além da razão põe de volta o conhecimento humano em seu lugar central no debate entre religião e ciência.