Claire Dederer Boeken

A hilarious and brilliant memoir from a unique new female voice, for lovers of Caitlin Moran and Lindy West

Witty and heartfelt, clear-sighted and irreverent, Poser is the book that sane, sensible and intelligent mothers around the world have been waiting for

'How rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL Pablo Picasso beat his partners. Richard Wagner was deeply antisemitic. David Bowie slept with an underage fan. But many of us still love Guernica and the Ring cycle and Ziggy Stardust. And what are we to do with that love? How are we, as fans, to reckon with the biographical choices of the artists whose work sustains us? Wildly smart and insightful, Monsters is an exhilarating attempt to understand our relationship with art and the artist in the twenty-first century. 'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY 'Part memoir, part treatise, and all treat' New York Times 'Clever and provocative' Daily Telegraph

'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILLA passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist's work from their biography.What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is history an excuse? What makes women artists monstrous? And what should we do with beauty, and with our unruly feelings about it?Claire Dederer explores these questions and our relationships with the artists whose behaviour disrupts our ability to apprehend the work on its own terms. She interrogates her own responses and her own behaviour, and she pushes the fan, and the reader, to do the same. Morally wise, deeply considered and sharply written, Monsters gets to the heart of one of our most pressing conversations.'A blisteringly erudite and entertaining read... It's a book that deserves to be widely read and will provoke many conversations.' NATHAN FILER

From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Claire Dederer is a happily married mother of two, ages nine and twelve, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and, simultaneously, suffering through a kind of erotic reawakening. This exuberant memoir shifts between her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of mysterious new hungers and herself as a teenager--when she last experienced life with such heightened sensitivity and longing. From her hilarious chapter titles ("How to Have Sex with Your Husband of Seventeen Years") to her subjects--from the boyfriend she dumped at fourteen the moment she learned how to give herself an orgasm, to the girls who ruled her elite private school ("when I left Oberlin I thought I had done with them forever, but it turned out ...they also edited all the newspapers and magazines, and wrote all the books"), to raising a teenage daughter herself--Dederer writes with an electrifying blend of wry wit and raw honesty. She exposes herself utterly, and in doing so captures something universal about the experience of being a woman, a daughter, a wife.

Das Kind quengelt, der Rücken schmerzt, die Beziehung kriselt ... Claire Dederer ist gestresst vom Junge-Mutter- Dasein und fühlt sich gefangen in ihrer kleinen Spielplatzwelt. Um biegsam und erleuchtet zu werden (und die Wirbelsäule zu stärken), beginnt sie mit Yoga. Nach anfänglichem Fremdeln führen „Krähe“, „Rad“ und „Krieger“ überraschenderweise tatsächlich zu mehr Selbsterkenntnis, vor allem aber zu einem entspannteren, lebensfrohen Alltag. Das Buch erschien ursprünglich unter dem Titel „Einatmen. Aufatmen“ als Hardcover im Mosaik Verlag.

Herz und Ironie! Soll sie nun abstillen oder nicht? Das Kind quengelt, der Rücken schmerzt, ihr Mann heuchelt Interesse. Eine nervöse junge Mutter, gestresst von dem inneren Auftrag, alles richtig zu machen und zugleich gelangweilt von ihrer kleinen Spielplatzwelt. Claire Dederer beginnt, Yoga zu üben, will ein Yoga-Mensch werden, jemand Biegsames, mit innerem Leuchten. Zunächst trifft sie auf eine Gruppe arroganter Mittelschicht-Muttis wie aus einer Schaumbadwerbung. Doch zu ihrer Überraschung führen 'Krähe', 'Rad' und 'Krieger' sie tatsächlich zu einem entspannteren, lebensfrohen Alltag. Eine geistreiche, selbstironische und humorvolle Reflexion des Lebens einer modernen Frau in 23 Yogastellungen.