Audacious and genre-defying, "Black and Blue" is steeped in
melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and
blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and
Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavor's
exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting
moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book's heart
are one book and three films--Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida,"
Chris Marker's "La Jetee" and "Sans soleil," and Marguerite Duras's
and Alain Resnais's "Hiroshima mon amour"--postwar French works
that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence
and history, through aesthetic refinement.
Personal recollections punctuate Mavor's dazzling
interpretations of these and many other works of art and criticism.
Childhood memories become Proust's "small-scale contrivances," tiny
sensations that open onto panoramas. Mavor's mother lost her memory
to Alzheimer's, and "Black and Blue" is framed by the author's
memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to
not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.
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