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"A Faithful Existence" is a thrilling, lyrical exploration of what it means to be faithful in the act of translation, in scientific and spiritual inquiry, in philosophies of perception, in friendship, and in poetry. Sensual, erudite, and operatic in scope, these essays pay homage to the landscape of the American South, to snapping turtles and anti-particles, to iconoclastic physicists and writers from various countries and epochs, to visionary poets and to poetic hoaxes. Forrest Gander pops the hood of the standard-issue essay and hotwires it for the 21st century, re-tuning compelling associations and vivid bursts of insight into the quality of immediate experience. He connects with an ethical vision, a bodily consciousness, and a mode of language that might help us to survive the streams of data, the discombobulating media, and the predatory march of "information" that defines our age.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Faithful Existence
• Subtitle: Reading, Memory, and Transcendence
• Author: Forrest Gander
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781593760717
• ISBN: 9781593760717
• ID: 06776290
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Weight: 380 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. October 2005

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