The World I Live In
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4.4 • 52 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller’s most personal and intellectually adventurous work — one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while making the pro-vocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language. Standing in the line of the works of Emerson and Thoreau, The World I Live In is a profoundly suggestive exercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscovered classic of American literature.
Customer Reviews
"The World I Live in" (Helen Keller)
This book lives at the intersection of Art and Spirituality (as do I). Its universe is the world of the Soul. Whereas I expected a book that told of Ms. Keller's incredible triumphs over adversity, this book speaks of no adversity. Instead, Ms. Keller, unencumbered by the intrusions of sight and sound, offers us, the sighted and hearing, her services as an able guide through the wilderness of the human mind.
As a benefit to humanity, she shares her gift of concentration, perception, the ability to extrapolate the whole from sparse data, and her sense of all that is beautiful and G-dly, with us, the sighted and hearing, who have limited imagination.
Every thinking person should study this book, and it should be taught in all high schools and colleges. It is also of specific interest to creative artists, and older people who have begun to contemplate what lies beyond the material world.