Autobiography George Spencer-Brown (auf englisch!)

Beschreibung

Autobiographie
Volume 1. Infancy and childhood
von George Spencer-Brown

ISBN 3-89094-355-1, 120 Seiten, Softcover, Format DIN-A5, Dieses Buch ist in Englischer Sprache – This Book is in English, 1. Auflage, 14,90 €, Bohmeier

Many people can remember the 1920’s, but it takes a remarkable skill to recreate those far-off days for readers who were born too late to experience them. Professor Spencer-Brown, whose classic works Laws of Form and Only Two can play This Game were both best-selling Bantam paperbacks, is perhaps the only writer who can bring to life the secret loves, fantasies, and frustrations of a two-year-old who recalls 1925 as if it were only yesterday.

Praise for this Book

I find it remarkable for the author’s description of the sadistic relations with his mother. I think the premise is good, the title attractive and the length excellent. I am taken by the song, especially in its German translation. It almost sounds better in a foreign language, and appropriate for that language to be the language of Nietzsche and Brecht.
The best part of the book, however, seemed to be – and quite properly – the last chapter. The story of the demise of the family fortunes is dramatic and essential. The author’s climactic account of not murdering his mother is equally so; and the subsequent detailing of his love for her and for his father adds a necessary note of catharsis. I was very impressed by all of this. There is something Jacobean about it.
STODDARD MARTIN

I have never seen anything so funny. The observations of a two-year-old on the adults in his life are devastating.
THOMAS WOLF

Contens of Volume 1:
Chapter 1. – I am born
Chapter 2. – Christopher Robin and Pooh
Chapter 3. – The seaside
Chapter 4. – The lavatory
Chapter 5. – The cost of living
Chapter 6. – Learning to talk
Chapter 7. – The philosopher
Chapter 8. – The magician
Chapter 9. – Sand engineering
Chapter 10. – Skipping through to thirteen
Chapter 11. – Life in the nineteen twenties
Chapter 12. – That girls’ school again
Chapter 13. – Ashby
Chapter 14. – My brother’s pram
Chapter 15. – Fireworks
Chapter 16. – Goodbye to all that
Chapter 17. – My father
Notes
My grandfather’s obituary