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The Unreality of Memory - And Other Essays (Paperback): Elisa Gabbert The Unreality of Memory - And Other Essays (Paperback)
Elisa Gabbert
R421 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R97 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L' Heure Bleue (Paperback): Elisa Gabbert L' Heure Bleue (Paperback)
Elisa Gabbert
R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Elisa Gabbert's L'Heure Bleue, or the Judy Poems, goes inside the mind of Judy, one of three characters in Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner, a play about the dissolution of a marriage in the midst of political revolution. In these poems, Gabbert imagines a back story and an emotional life for Judy beyond and outside the play. Written in a voice that is at once intellectual and unselfconscious, these poems create a character study of a many-layered woman reflected in solitude, while engaging with larger questions of memory, identity, desire, surveillance, and fear.

The Self Unstable (Paperback): Elisa Gabbert The Self Unstable (Paperback)
Elisa Gabbert
R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Literary Nonfiction. Elisa Gabbert's THE SELF UNSTABLE combines elements of memoir, philosophy, and aphorism to explore and trouble our ideas of the self, memory, happiness, aesthetics, love, and sex. With a sense of humor and an ability to find glimmers of the absurd in the profound, she uses the lyric essay like a koan to provoke the reader's reflection--unsettling the role of truth and interrogating the "I" in both literary and daily life: "The future isn't anywhere, so we can never get there. We can only disappear.""Gabbert strikes a perfect balance between heart and head, between cleverness and earnestness, between language that demonstrates its own fallibility and language that is surprisingly, perfectly precise."--Make Magazine..". smart and philosophically dexterous, capable of showing the self to be a fetish-object of its own and also a refractive subject of Lacanian devotion, as a mirror which doesn't so much distort as endlessly reveal, ' like the panopticon eye of a camera."--The Rumpus..". the dispassion about the self allows the writer to enact a number of equally lovely sleights of hand . . . Even while the author is drawn to image and reason, she is also in love with the vanishing point, where all perspective is ecstatically compressed into a single node."--Gently Read Literature

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
R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'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

The Voyage Out (Paperback): Virginia Woolf, Elisa Gabbert The Voyage Out (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf, Elisa Gabbert
R389 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Save R71 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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