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On Lighthouses

Autor Jazmina Barrera Traducere de Christina MacSweeney
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2022
'After spending sufficient time inside a lighthouse, who wouldn't begin to hear a song in the sound of the machinery, a voice in the wind or the waves?' Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses - those structures whose message is 'first and foremost, that human beings are here.' Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline, On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ingmar Bergman, and many others. In trying to 'collect' lighthouses by obsessively describing them, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing, collecting, and how, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone - from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one - concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless, guiding light.
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ISBN-13: 9781949641349
ISBN-10: 1949641341
Pagini: 174
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Two Lines Press
Colecția Two Lines Press
Locul publicării:United States