Mirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking, about what
people seek when they read, and about what stares back at them from
the printed page. It is an archival project, based on a wealth of
material collected daily by celebrated critic Warren F. Motte over
thirty-five years and squirreled away for some eventual winter. It
is also a love letter, a confession, a tale of deep obsession, and
a cry for help addressed to anyone who takes literature seriously.
"At heart, this is not just a book about mirror scenes, interesting
as they are- and they are interesting. It's also a look at passion,
at collection, at personal taxonomies and the game of creating
order from disorder (do we ever win that game?). It's about how we
read and why we read. And it's about the Delphic maxim, "Know
thyself." Motte explores how characters look for (or suddenly
catch) themselves in mirrors, as well as how (or whether) the act
of writing is a reflection, distorted or true, of writers
themselves."- Julie Larios, Numero Cinq "I believe (and I'm
choosing my words carefully) that this is the most extraordinary
book about reading I have ever read" - Jacques Jouet "Wonderfully
luminous, entertaining, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging...an
essential book" - Gerald Prince "Motte has collected around ten
thousand mirror scenes from roughly 1,500 books. This, in and of
itself, is noteworthy, but the book is not simply a reprinting of
quotes from various books. It is a deeply considered analysis of
what it actually means to look into a mirror. For the serious
reader, this book will serve as a trip through your reading past. I
was reminded-somewhat nostalgically-of much of the literature that
has defined the early part of my adult life. From Nabokov to
Salinger to Rilke to Calvino, the book makes its way into just
about every corner of American and European literature." - Nancy
Smith, YourImpossibleVoice
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