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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 160
Utgivningsdatum: 2003-03-01
Förlag: Counterpoint
Illustrationer: black & white illustrations
Dimensioner: 215 x 112 x 10 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: 4:B&W 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN: 9781582432458

Browser's Ecstasy

Name: Browser's Ecstasy
Price: 269.00 SEK
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Author: Geoffrey O'Brien
ISBN: 9781582432458

A Meditation on Reading

av Geoffrey O'Brien

Häftad, Engelska, 2003-03-01

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From one of the most original writers now at work, an expansive, learned, and utterly charming reverie on what it means to be lost in a book. . Louis Menand, writing in The New Yorker , called Geoffrey O'Brien's The Phantom Empire "a prose poem about the pleasures and distractions of movie-watching," "an ambitiously literary attempt to write about the [mystery of the] medium as though it were a dream the author had just awakened from." Now, in The Browser's Ecstasy , O'Brien has written a prose poem about reading, a playful, epigrammatic nocturne upon the dream-state one falls into when "lost in a book," upon the uncanny, trancelike pleasure of making silent marks on paper utter sounds inside one's head. We call The Browser's Ecstasy a "Meditation on Reading," but like any truly original book-and especially the short book that goes both far and deep-it resists easy summary and classification. As Luc Sante once wrote, "The density of O'Brien's work makes word count irrelevant as an index of substance; he is seemingly capable of compressing entire encyclopedias into his parenthetical asides. I defy you to name any precedent for what he does. He's a school unto himself."

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