Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
| Авторы: | Мангузо Сара |
| Жанр: | Наука, Образование |
| Год: | 2015 |
| ISBN: | 9781555973360 |
| Язык: | Английский |
| Обьем книги: | Полная версия |
| Рейтинг: | (0) |
| Авторы: | Мангузо Сара |
| Жанр: | Наука, Образование |
| Год: | 2015 |
| ISBN: | 9781555973360 |
| Язык: | Английский |
| Обьем книги: | Полная версия |
| Рейтинг: | (0) |
A dazzling philosophical investigation of the challenge of living in the present, by a brilliant practitioner of the new essay.
In her third book, which continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened," she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.
Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.
Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary — it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.
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