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"[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed." -The New Yorker
In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened," she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.
Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.
Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary-it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.
"Bold, elegant, and honest . . . Ongoingness reads variously as an addict's testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy." -The Paris Review
"Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
"[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed." -The New Yorker
In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened," she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.
Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.
Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary-it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.
"Bold, elegant, and honest . . . Ongoingness reads variously as an addict's testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy." -The Paris Review
"Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 104 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781555977658 |
| ISBN-10: | 1555977650 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Manguso, Sarah |
| Hersteller: | GRAY WOLF PR |
| Maße: | 190 x 128 x 10 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sarah Manguso |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.12.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,124 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 104 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781555977658 |
| ISBN-10: | 1555977650 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Manguso, Sarah |
| Hersteller: | GRAY WOLF PR |
| Maße: | 190 x 128 x 10 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sarah Manguso |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.12.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,124 kg |
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