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Except For Breath - Reflections On Image And Memory (Paperback) Loot Price: R278
Discovery Miles 2 780
Except For Breath - Reflections On Image And Memory (Paperback): Lucienne Bestall

Except For Breath - Reflections On Image And Memory (Paperback)

Lucienne Bestall

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Loot Price R278 Discovery Miles 2 780

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Lucid and lyrical, Lucienne Bestall’s debut collection extends reflections on the seductions and limitations of language. With words and pictures borrowed from literature, contemporary art, art history, and mass media, Except for Breath asks after those experiences that elude simple description and turn instead to image and metaphor.

The collected essays appear an unlikely gathering – taking as their respective subjects death, disappointment, divine love, an unfamiliar city, the news, and headaches. Yet while each is discrete, together they share subtle aff inities, their narratives shaped by memory’s imprecisions and dreams retold, by magical thinking and wishful thinking, and coincidence mistaken as sign.

Pairing art writing and life writing, Bestall’s limpid prose is delicately revealing of her subjective encounter with a shared repertoire of familiar texts and images.

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Imprint: Karavan Press
Release date: March 2025
Authors: Lucienne Bestall
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 978-1-77647-265-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
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LSN: 1-77647-265-9
Barcode: 9781776472659

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