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The Unreality of Memory - Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse (Paperback, Main) Loot Price: R300
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The Unreality of Memory - Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse (Paperback, Main): Elisa Gabbert

The Unreality of Memory - Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse (Paperback, Main)

Elisa Gabbert

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'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less 'Masterly... Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply a sort of distant, retrospective view, like postcards sent from the near future' New York Times We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase "Did you see?" The feeling that we're living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten. Poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert's The Unreality of Memory consists of a series of lyrical and deeply researched meditations on what our culture of catastrophe has done to public discourse and our own inner lives. In these tender and prophetic essays, she focuses in on our daily preoccupation and favorite pasttime: desperate distraction from disaster by way of a desperate obsession with the disastrous. Moving from public trauma to personal tragedy, from the Titanic and Chernobyl to illness and loss, The Unreality of Memory alternately rips away the facade of our fascination with destruction and gently identifies itself with the age of rubbernecking. A balm, not a burr, Gabbert's essays are a hauntingly perceptive analysis of the anxiety intrinsic in our new, digital ways of being, and also a means of reconciling ourselves to this new world. 'One of those joyful books that send you to your notebook every page or so, desperate not to lose either the thought the author has deftly placed in your mind or the title of a work she has now compelled you to read.' Paris Review

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Imprint: Atlantic Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2021
Authors: Elisa Gabbert (Author)
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-1-83895-064-4
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General
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LSN: 1-83895-064-8
Barcode: 9781838950644

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