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Any person is the only self : essays
Author
Title
Any person is the only self : essays / Elisa Gabbert.
ISBN
9780374605896
0374605890
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
230 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
"Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 15, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
On recently returned books
The stupid classics book club
Weird time in Frankenstein
Party lit
Proust and the joy of suffering
On jealousy
The intolerable, I guess
Against completism
Second selves
A complicating energy
Infinite abundance on a narrow ledge
Insane places
The uncanny child
Somethingness (or, why write?)
Nostalgia for a less innocent time
Same river, same man
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Acknowledgments.
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