Traces (eBook)

An Essay

Mairead Small Staid (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
252 Seiten
Deep Vellum Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-64605-201-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life.The Tracesis a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino'sInvisible Cities.Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Venice,drawing on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, and spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson,The Tracesis an ecstatic, insightful, and original debut.

Autor

Mairead Small Staid is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and Phillips Exeter Academy, where she was the Geoge Bennett Fellow. Her essays have appeared in AGNI, The Believer, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Minnesota.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Beauty • Depression • Essay • Italo Calvino • Memory • Travel • Western Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-64605-201-3 / 1646052013
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64605-201-1 / 9781646052011