We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think (eBook)

Shirley Hazzard won the National Book Award for her 2003 novel The Great Fire and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Transit of Venus. She is the author of The Evening of the Holiday and The Bay of Noon, which was nominated for the Lost Booker Prize; Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene; and People in Glass Houses, a short-story collection based on her time at the United Nations. She lives in New York City and Capri.Brigitta Olubas is professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. She is an editor of the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and the author of Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Shirley Hazzard—Author, Amateur, Intellectual, by Brigitta OlubasPart I. Through Literature ItselfWe Need Silence to Find Out What We ThinkThe Lonely WordPart II. The Expressive WordA Mind Like a Blade: Review of Muriel Spark, Collected Stories I and The Public ImageReview of Jean Rhys, QuartetThe Lasting Sickness of Naples: Review of Matilde Serao, Il Ventre di NapoliThe New Novel by the New Nobel Prize Winner: Review of Patrick White, The Eye of the StormOrdinary People: Review of Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn and Excellent WomenTranslating ProustIntroduction to Geoffrey Scott's The Portrait of ZélideIntroduction to Iris Origo's Leopardi: A Study in SolitudeWilliam MaxwellPart III. Public ThemesThe Patron Saint of the UN is Pontius Pilate"Gulag" and the Men of PeaceThe United Nations: Where Governments Go to ChurchThe League of Frightened Men: Why the UN is So UselessUNhelpful: Waldheim's Latest DebacleA Writer's Reflections on the Nuclear AgePart IV. The Great OccasionCanton More FarPapyrology at NaplesThe Tuscan in Each of UsPart V. Last Words2003 National Book Award AcceptanceThe New York Society Library Discussion, September 2012NotesIndex