Experiments on Reality: The Last Essays
Autor Tim Robinsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 aug 2020
Robinson brings us to his boyhood in Yorkshire, National Service in Malaya in the 1950s, and his years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London. He revisits some of the scenes of his researches for the maps he made of Aran and Connemara, places that continue to throw up remarkable stories and puzzles. And he performs astonishing literary thought-experiments, playing with the boundaries of the essay form, scientific inquiry, and storytelling.Experiments on Realityis a masterpiece from one of the great minds of our time.
'One of the greatest of all landscape writers ... When the material world is brought forth for us so beautifully, with such rapt attention and illuminating insight, we are reminded of how lucky we are to be part of it' Fintan O'Toole,Irish Times
PRAISE FOR THECONNEMARATRILOGY:
'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English' Robert MacFarlane,Spectator
'Robinson is a marvel ... the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy, the writing of places' Fintan O'Toole,ObserverBooks of the Year
'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists ... This is a book that does justice, in every sense of that phrase, to the frequently betrayed people whose stories it incarnates, and to their strange and beautiful corner of the world' Joseph O'Connor,Guardian
'A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places' Colm Tóibín,Irish TimesBooks of the Year
'One of the finest of contemporary prose stylists' John Burnside,Irish Times
'He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights.' John Banville,Guardian
'Breathtaking ... the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate' Patricia Craig,TLS
'Dazzling ... an indubitable classic' Giles Foden,Condé Nast Traveller
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241987292
ISBN-10: 0241987296
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241987296
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
A
native
of
Yorkshire,
Tim
Robinson
studied
maths
at
Cambridge
and
then
worked
for
many
years
as
a
visual
artist
in
Istanbul,
Vienna
and
London,
among
other
places.
In
1972
he
moved
to
the
Aran
Islands
and
commenced
a
multi-decade
project
of
mapping
and
writing
about
Aran
and
Connemara.
He
is
the
author
of
the
two-volumeStones
of
Aranand
theConnemaratrilogy,
each
published
to
great
acclaim.
He
died
in
2020.
Recenzii
Many
landscape
writers
have
striven
to
give
their
prose
the
characteristics
of
the
terrain
they
are
describing.
Few
have
succeeded
as
fully
as
Robinson
One of the greatest of all landscape writers ... When the material world is brought forth for us so beautifully, with such rapt attention and illuminating insight, we are reminded of how lucky we are to be part of it
Robinson is a stylist of exceptional cadence, tact and ingenuity
He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights
Experiments on Realityoffers another side to Robinson. The abstract and algebraic thinking of his early years as both a mathematician and artist bubble back to the surface and meld with the mossy scents of Connacht and the reflections of age
One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists
In this slim volume of essays, typically lyrical and measured, Robinson burgles the bank of his youth in Wharfedale and later years, including National Service in Malaysia and his time as an artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, to map out the topography of his own thoughts and travels.
Dazzling
Tim Robinson is the Proust of the western seaboard, a Ruskin of the isles
He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility
Breathtaking ... the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate
Simply one of the best non-fiction prose writers currently at work
The Proust & Ruskin of modern place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker, & human of exceptional intellectual generosity & kindness. He was an immense inspiration to & encourager of me & my work.
One of the greatest of all landscape writers ... When the material world is brought forth for us so beautifully, with such rapt attention and illuminating insight, we are reminded of how lucky we are to be part of it
Robinson is a stylist of exceptional cadence, tact and ingenuity
He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights
Experiments on Realityoffers another side to Robinson. The abstract and algebraic thinking of his early years as both a mathematician and artist bubble back to the surface and meld with the mossy scents of Connacht and the reflections of age
One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists
In this slim volume of essays, typically lyrical and measured, Robinson burgles the bank of his youth in Wharfedale and later years, including National Service in Malaysia and his time as an artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, to map out the topography of his own thoughts and travels.
Dazzling
Tim Robinson is the Proust of the western seaboard, a Ruskin of the isles
He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility
Breathtaking ... the West of Ireland has found its ultimate laureate
Simply one of the best non-fiction prose writers currently at work
The Proust & Ruskin of modern place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker, & human of exceptional intellectual generosity & kindness. He was an immense inspiration to & encourager of me & my work.