"In her third book that 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 statemen...

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1. Verfasser:	Manguso, Sarah 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Minneapolis, Minn. Graywolf Press 2015
Schlagworte:	Manguso, Sarah / 1974- Authors, American / 21st century / Biography Diaries Diaries / Authorship Autobiographical memory Time / Psychological aspects Authors, American Psychologie Biografie Tagebuch
Zusammenfassung:	"In her third book that 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 amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us"--Publisher's website
Beschreibung:	Autobiographical essay
Beschreibung:	95 S.
ISBN:	9781555977030