The Correspondent Through listening and attention

Through listening and attention

hvor barnets utsatthet for de voksnes skade gjentar seg

og selvtilliden er i bund

This provocative interpretation of the late Marx sheds new lights on the recent debates on the relationship between society and nature and invites readers to envision a post-capitalist society without repeating the failure of the actually existing socialism of the twentieth century

The Correspondent Through listening and attentionEvery morning, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Because at seventy three, Sybil has used her correspondence witty and wise to make sense of the world.