ATWOOD, MARGARET
Payback is an intelligent, wideranging book that examines the metaphor of debt and the role it takes in our lives. Debt is like air something we take for granted and never think about until things go wrong. This is not a book about debt management or high finance, but about debt as a very old, central motif in religion and literature and also in the structuring of human societies. She looks at the language of debt in the Old Testament what was owed to God, and why. She then turns to investigate debt as sin in medieval and Elizabethan literature, before it develops into a plotdriving concept in nineteenth and twentieth century novels. The debts to society and to nature are discussed in the final essay in this book as Atwood explores how debt as a metaphor affects our understanding of the environment and death. Topical, enlightening and probing, this is the work of one of the most gifted writers of our generation.
MARGARET ATWOOD (Ottawa 1939) és autora de més d'una trentena d'obres de narrativa, assaig i poesia. S'ha consolidat com l'escriptora més important de la literatura canadenca actual. Entre les seves novel·les cal destacar The Handmaid's Tale i Cat's Eye, totes dues finalistes del Premi Booker, The Robber Bride, i la recent Alias Grace, que també va ser finalista del Booker i va guanyar el Premi Giller (Canadà) i el Premi Mondello (Itàlia). L'assassí cec va obtenir els premis Booker (2000) i Hammett (2001). La revista Time la va distingir com la millor novel·la de l'any 2000 i la va escollir entre les cent millors novel·les escrites en anglès des del 1923. Aquesta obra de Margaret Atwood ha merescut el reconeixement internacional i ha estat traduïda a trenta-tres llengües.