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Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 252
Utgivningsdatum: 2022-09-13
Förlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 9781646052011

Traces E-bok

Name: Traces
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Author: Mairead Small Staid
ISBN: 9781646052011

An Essay

av Mairead Small Staid

E-bok (LCP), Engelska, 2022-09-13

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The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.The Tracesis a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino'sInvisible Cities.Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Venice,drawing on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, and spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson,The Tracesis an ecstatic, insightful, and original debut.

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