Memory Theater
Autor Simon Critchleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 noi 2015
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley s office. Rooting through them, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. While waiting for his friend s prediction to come through, Critchley receives the missing, final box, which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo s sixteenth-century Venetian memory theater, a space supposed to contain the sum of all knowledge.With nothing left to hope for, Critchley devotes himself to one final project before his death the building of a structure to house his collective memories and document the remnants of his entire life."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781590517406
ISBN-10: 1590517407
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 127 x 193 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Other Press (NY)
ISBN-10: 1590517407
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 127 x 193 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Other Press (NY)
Recenzii
"Simon Critchley is a figure of quite startling brilliance, and I can never begin to guess what he'll do next, only that it is sure to sustain and nourish my appetite for his voice. His overall project may be that of returning philosophical inquiry, and "theory," to a home in literature, yet without surrendering any of its incisive power, or ethical urgency. . . . I read "Memory Theater" and loved it." --Jonathan Lethem, author of "Dissident Gardens"
""Memory Theater" is a brilliant one-of-a-kind mind game occupying a strange frontier between philosophy, memoir, and fiction. Simon Critchley beguiles as he illuminates." --David Mitchell, author of "Cloud Atlas"
"Novella or essay, science fiction or memoir? Who cares. Chris Marker, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Frances Yates would all have been proud to have written "Memory Theater."" --Tom McCarthy, author of "C"
"Remarkable...suffused with an enthusiasm for its subject, and a humor that carries the text lightly along as Critchley's frantic prose descends toward its conclusion." --"Los Angeles Review of Books"
"[Critchley's] fiction debut is rich, profound, and very funny." --"The Guardian"
"Teasing, economical, ingenious" --"Times Literary Supplement"
Simon Critchley is a figure of quite startling brilliance, and I can never begin to guess what he ll do next, only that it is sure to sustain and nourish my appetite for his voice. His overall project may be that of returning philosophical inquiry, and theory, to a home in literature, yet without surrendering any of its incisive power, or ethical urgency. . . . I read"Memory Theater"and loved it. Jonathan Lethem, author of"Dissident Gardens"
"Memory Theater"is a brilliant one-of-a-kind mind game occupying a strange frontier between philosophy, memoir, and fiction. Simon Critchley beguiles as he illuminates. David Mitchell, author of"Cloud Atlas"
Novella or essay, science fiction or memoir? Who cares. Chris Marker, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Frances Yates would all have been proud to have written"Memory Theater." Tom McCarthy, author of"C"
Remarkable suffused with an enthusiasm for its subject, and a humor that carries the text lightly along as Critchley s frantic prose descends toward its conclusion. "Los Angeles Review of Books"
[Critchley s] fiction debut is rich, profound, and very funny. "The Guardian"
Teasing, economical, ingenious "Times Literary Supplement"
A strange, affecting and stimulating book that's both a philosophical history and a personal memoir. Sifting through the archives of a dead friend, Critchley takes a fascinating journey through the philosophy and history of memory, and the technologies of remembering dreamed up by thinkers since classical times. Hari Kunzru, author of"Gods Without Men"
With a sense of mischief combined with surprising reverie, Simon Critchley has braided together ideas about memory from the past with the latest thinking about unreliable narrative, altered states and the mysteries of consciousness."Memory Theater"is a tantalizing, textual Moebius strip philosophy, autobiography, and fiction twisted together. Marina Warner, author of"Stranger Magic""
"This strange, mesmerizing novel is hard to shake, evoking lucidity, mortality, and weirdness in equally memorable measures."" Kirkus Reviews"
"Utterly readable, swiftly entertaining, and at moments blackly funny, though overall there s great poignancy in the character s cock-eyed determination to reach his goal; not a standard narrative but within any reader s reach."" Library Journal"
"Critchley's prose is charming, funny, and clear; his voice is strong and honest..."Memory Theater"is entirely readable, even for someone who is new to the philosophers, poets, and poet-philosophers Critchley invokes...[R]efreshing..."Memory Theater"offers an author's idiosyncratic version of the truth."" Bookforum"
"[O]riginal, observant, and unexpectedly moving...The novel is short enough to be absorbed in a single sitting, but the questions posed by author/character Simon regarding the full ramifications of the soul s saturation in history will linger indefinitely."" Publishers Weekly"(Starred Review)
Simon Critchley is a figure of quite startling brilliance, and I can never begin to guess what he ll do next, only that it is sure to sustain and nourish my appetite for his voice. His overall project may be that of returning philosophical inquiry, and theory, to a home in literature, yet without surrendering any of its incisive power, or ethical urgency. . . . I read"Memory Theater"and loved it. Jonathan Lethem, author of"Dissident Gardens"
"Memory Theater"is a brilliant one-of-a-kind mind game occupying a strange frontier between philosophy, memoir, and fiction. Simon Critchley beguiles as he illuminates. David Mitchell, author of"Cloud Atlas"
Novella or essay, science fiction or memoir? Who cares. Chris Marker, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Frances Yates would all have been proud to have written"Memory Theater." Tom McCarthy, author of"C"
Remarkable suffused with an enthusiasm for its subject, and a humor that carries the text lightly along as Critchley s frantic prose descends toward its conclusion. "Los Angeles Review of Books"
[Critchley s] fiction debut is rich, profound, and very funny. "The Guardian"
Teasing, economical, ingenious "Times Literary Supplement"
A strange, affecting and stimulating book that's both a philosophical history and a personal memoir. Sifting through the archives of a dead friend, Critchley takes a fascinating journey through the philosophy and history of memory, and the technologies of remembering dreamed up by thinkers since classical times. Hari Kunzru, author of"Gods Without Men"
With a sense of mischief combined with surprising reverie, Simon Critchley has braided together ideas about memory from the past with the latest thinking about unreliable narrative, altered states and the mysteries of consciousness."Memory Theater"is a tantalizing, textual Moebius strip philosophy, autobiography, and fiction twisted together. Marina Warner, author of"Stranger Magic""
""Memory Theater" is a brilliant one-of-a-kind mind game occupying a strange frontier between philosophy, memoir, and fiction. Simon Critchley beguiles as he illuminates." --David Mitchell, author of "Cloud Atlas"
"Novella or essay, science fiction or memoir? Who cares. Chris Marker, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Frances Yates would all have been proud to have written "Memory Theater."" --Tom McCarthy, author of "C"
"Remarkable...suffused with an enthusiasm for its subject, and a humor that carries the text lightly along as Critchley's frantic prose descends toward its conclusion." --"Los Angeles Review of Books"
"[Critchley's] fiction debut is rich, profound, and very funny." --"The Guardian"
"Teasing, economical, ingenious" --"Times Literary Supplement"
Simon Critchley is a figure of quite startling brilliance, and I can never begin to guess what he ll do next, only that it is sure to sustain and nourish my appetite for his voice. His overall project may be that of returning philosophical inquiry, and theory, to a home in literature, yet without surrendering any of its incisive power, or ethical urgency. . . . I read"Memory Theater"and loved it. Jonathan Lethem, author of"Dissident Gardens"
"Memory Theater"is a brilliant one-of-a-kind mind game occupying a strange frontier between philosophy, memoir, and fiction. Simon Critchley beguiles as he illuminates. David Mitchell, author of"Cloud Atlas"
Novella or essay, science fiction or memoir? Who cares. Chris Marker, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Frances Yates would all have been proud to have written"Memory Theater." Tom McCarthy, author of"C"
Remarkable suffused with an enthusiasm for its subject, and a humor that carries the text lightly along as Critchley s frantic prose descends toward its conclusion. "Los Angeles Review of Books"
[Critchley s] fiction debut is rich, profound, and very funny. "The Guardian"
Teasing, economical, ingenious "Times Literary Supplement"
A strange, affecting and stimulating book that's both a philosophical history and a personal memoir. Sifting through the archives of a dead friend, Critchley takes a fascinating journey through the philosophy and history of memory, and the technologies of remembering dreamed up by thinkers since classical times. Hari Kunzru, author of"Gods Without Men"
With a sense of mischief combined with surprising reverie, Simon Critchley has braided together ideas about memory from the past with the latest thinking about unreliable narrative, altered states and the mysteries of consciousness."Memory Theater"is a tantalizing, textual Moebius strip philosophy, autobiography, and fiction twisted together. Marina Warner, author of"Stranger Magic""
"This strange, mesmerizing novel is hard to shake, evoking lucidity, mortality, and weirdness in equally memorable measures."" Kirkus Reviews"
"Utterly readable, swiftly entertaining, and at moments blackly funny, though overall there s great poignancy in the character s cock-eyed determination to reach his goal; not a standard narrative but within any reader s reach."" Library Journal"
"Critchley's prose is charming, funny, and clear; his voice is strong and honest..."Memory Theater"is entirely readable, even for someone who is new to the philosophers, poets, and poet-philosophers Critchley invokes...[R]efreshing..."Memory Theater"offers an author's idiosyncratic version of the truth."" Bookforum"
"[O]riginal, observant, and unexpectedly moving...The novel is short enough to be absorbed in a single sitting, but the questions posed by author/character Simon regarding the full ramifications of the soul s saturation in history will linger indefinitely."" Publishers Weekly"(Starred Review)
Simon Critchley is a figure of quite startling brilliance, and I can never begin to guess what he ll do next, only that it is sure to sustain and nourish my appetite for his voice. His overall project may be that of returning philosophical inquiry, and theory, to a home in literature, yet without surrendering any of its incisive power, or ethical urgency. . . . I read"Memory Theater"and loved it. Jonathan Lethem, author of"Dissident Gardens"
"Memory Theater"is a brilliant one-of-a-kind mind game occupying a strange frontier between philosophy, memoir, and fiction. Simon Critchley beguiles as he illuminates. David Mitchell, author of"Cloud Atlas"
Novella or essay, science fiction or memoir? Who cares. Chris Marker, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Frances Yates would all have been proud to have written"Memory Theater." Tom McCarthy, author of"C"
Remarkable suffused with an enthusiasm for its subject, and a humor that carries the text lightly along as Critchley s frantic prose descends toward its conclusion. "Los Angeles Review of Books"
[Critchley s] fiction debut is rich, profound, and very funny. "The Guardian"
Teasing, economical, ingenious "Times Literary Supplement"
A strange, affecting and stimulating book that's both a philosophical history and a personal memoir. Sifting through the archives of a dead friend, Critchley takes a fascinating journey through the philosophy and history of memory, and the technologies of remembering dreamed up by thinkers since classical times. Hari Kunzru, author of"Gods Without Men"
With a sense of mischief combined with surprising reverie, Simon Critchley has braided together ideas about memory from the past with the latest thinking about unreliable narrative, altered states and the mysteries of consciousness."Memory Theater"is a tantalizing, textual Moebius strip philosophy, autobiography, and fiction twisted together. Marina Warner, author of"Stranger Magic""
Notă biografică
Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. His previous books include "On Humour"; "The Book of Dead Philosophers"; "How to Stop Living and Start Worrying"; "Impossible Objects"; "The Mattering of Matter" (with Tom McCarthy); "The Faith of the Faithless"; "Stay, Illusion! "(with Jamieson Webster), and "Bowie." He is series moderator of The Stone, a philosophy column in the" New York Times," to which he is a frequent contributor."
Descriere
From this renowned philosopher comes a debut work of fiction, at once a brilliant precis of the history of philosophy, a semiautobiographical meditation on the absurd relationship between knowledge and memory, and a very funny story
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley s office. Rooting through them, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. While waiting for his friend s prediction to come through, Critchley receives the missing, final box, which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo s sixteenth-century Venetian memory theater, a space supposed to contain the sum of all knowledge.With nothing left to hope for, Critchley devotes himself to one final project before his death the building of a structure to house his collective memories and document the remnants of his entire life."
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley s office. Rooting through them, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. While waiting for his friend s prediction to come through, Critchley receives the missing, final box, which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo s sixteenth-century Venetian memory theater, a space supposed to contain the sum of all knowledge.With nothing left to hope for, Critchley devotes himself to one final project before his death the building of a structure to house his collective memories and document the remnants of his entire life."