Memories Look at Me: a memoir
Tomas Transtromer (2011 Nobel Prize Literature)
New Directions, 2011
839.73 T772t
Written a few years after Transtromer suffered a stroke that left him unable to speak, Memories Look at Me is Tomas Tranströmer’s lyrical autobiography about growing up in Sweden. His story opens with a streak of light, a comet that becomes a brilliant metaphor for “my life” as he tries to penetrate the earliest, formative memories of his past. This childhood life unfolds itself slowly in eight glistening chapters that gradually reveal the most secret of treasures: how Tranströmer discovered poetry. -publisher
“The Nobel prize to Mr. Tranströmer is a momentary defeat for ideology and a great victory for poetry.” (Michael Moynihan - The Wall Street Journal )