Skylighting
Autor Charles Hansmannen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 dec 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781646036301
ISBN-10: 1646036301
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Regal House Publishing
Colecția Regal House Publishing
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1646036301
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Regal House Publishing
Colecția Regal House Publishing
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
Like any good novelist, Charles Hansmann isn’t afraid to turn his protagonist’s world upside down, early and often. As an accomplished poet, he’s always got his eye on the luminary bodies in the sky—and his ear to the ground of well-crafted prose. In this concentrated meditation of a novel, Hansmann gets at something still deeper than the nuts and bolts of good literary art. There’s a guiding metaphysics here: of loss and secrets, of the ways the living can so easily and so willingly transmogrify themselves into hungry ghosts adrift. There’s also the mirror image of that melancholy state: that is, the way memory and remembered promises might offer just the sort of celestial navigation we need to steer our ghost ships home.
Hansmann’s Skylighting is a dreamy sphere of a novel written in lovely lucid prose.
Skylighting is a delight—a moving, contemplative, and probing exploration of grief and identity, as musical and delicate as a meticulously crafted composition for a chamber ensemble. The prose itself hooks you; the story delivers the poignant emotions.
Skylighting convincingly captures the liminal space of grief. These hallucinatory vignettes, half-asleep and half-awake, render even mundane encounters strange. Loss has knocked the world askew, and we’re left with the tilted visions. Hansmann’s novella is an astute, surprising journey.
Charles Hansmann’s debut novel, Skylighting, begins with a tragedy, then moves seamlessly between past and present until time itself becomes a character. Hansmann’s narrator, unmoored, drifts from place to place in search for meaning and the hard-earned understanding that “each person’s plight calls out to our own.” The fragility of our existence and potential non-existence is apparent on almost every page. Short, declarative sentences are sometimes enough to conjure entire lives, as in the description of the narrator’s parents: “He taught high-school science and my mother didn’t love him. This lasted twelve years.” Hansmann’s clear, concise prose mesmerizes the reader. The ending is spellbinding.
In this deeply felt, revelatory novel, a stunning loss sends Nick Nacht on what seems, at first, to be an aimless journey, one in which he feels like only an observer, even within his own self. But Nick’s openness to every form of experience—and to insights from various people he meets along the way—ultimately brings him to new understandings about his troubled past and about what his future, shaped by both loss and love, might look like. Throughout his journey, Nick and those he encounters also wrestle with the possibilities and limitations of language, and of attempts to make any kind of meaning with or from it. With the lyricism of poetry and the immersiveness of a philosophical meditation, Skylighting entranced me from the first pages. Hansmann has crafted a profound and incantatory work.
Hansmann’s Skylighting is a dreamy sphere of a novel written in lovely lucid prose.
Skylighting is a delight—a moving, contemplative, and probing exploration of grief and identity, as musical and delicate as a meticulously crafted composition for a chamber ensemble. The prose itself hooks you; the story delivers the poignant emotions.
Skylighting convincingly captures the liminal space of grief. These hallucinatory vignettes, half-asleep and half-awake, render even mundane encounters strange. Loss has knocked the world askew, and we’re left with the tilted visions. Hansmann’s novella is an astute, surprising journey.
Charles Hansmann’s debut novel, Skylighting, begins with a tragedy, then moves seamlessly between past and present until time itself becomes a character. Hansmann’s narrator, unmoored, drifts from place to place in search for meaning and the hard-earned understanding that “each person’s plight calls out to our own.” The fragility of our existence and potential non-existence is apparent on almost every page. Short, declarative sentences are sometimes enough to conjure entire lives, as in the description of the narrator’s parents: “He taught high-school science and my mother didn’t love him. This lasted twelve years.” Hansmann’s clear, concise prose mesmerizes the reader. The ending is spellbinding.
In this deeply felt, revelatory novel, a stunning loss sends Nick Nacht on what seems, at first, to be an aimless journey, one in which he feels like only an observer, even within his own self. But Nick’s openness to every form of experience—and to insights from various people he meets along the way—ultimately brings him to new understandings about his troubled past and about what his future, shaped by both loss and love, might look like. Throughout his journey, Nick and those he encounters also wrestle with the possibilities and limitations of language, and of attempts to make any kind of meaning with or from it. With the lyricism of poetry and the immersiveness of a philosophical meditation, Skylighting entranced me from the first pages. Hansmann has crafted a profound and incantatory work.