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Uncertain manifesto.

Title: Uncertain manifesto. Volume I / by Frédéric Pajak ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
Author: Pajak, Frederik
Publication: New York : NYRB, New York Review Books, [2019]

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Additional Authors

Nicholson-Smith, Donald

Description

187 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The writer and artist Frédéric Pajak was ten when he began to "dream of a work that would mingle words and images...bits of adventure, collected memories, sentences, phantoms, forgotten heroes, trees, the stormy sea," but it was not until he was in his forties that this dream took form as The Wind of Things. The utterly original book that he produced is a memoir born of reading and a meditation on the lives and ideas, the motivations, feelings, and fates of some of Pajak's heroes: Samuel Beckett and the artist Bram van Velde, and, especially, Walter Benjamin, whose travels to Moscow, Naples, and Ibiza, whose experiences with hashish, whose faltering marriage and love affairs and critique of modern experience Pajak re-creates and reflects on in word and image. Pajak's moody black-and-white drawings accompany the text throughout, though their bearing on it is often indirect and all the more absorbing for that. Between word and image, the reader is drawn into a mysterious space that is all Pajak's as he seeks to evoke vanished histories and to resist a modern world more and more given over to a present without a past"--

Uniform Title

Manifeste incertain. Tome 1. English

Alternative Title

Manifeste incertain. Tome 1.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Comic books, strips, etc.

Note

Fully illustrated.

Contents

Preface -- "But you no longer had the tearful gaiety" -- In praise of misunderstanding -- "There is only sky" -- The wind of things -- "Damaged dreamer in the landscape" -- Two fascists -- 1933 -- Spirits.

Call Number

JFF 20-952

ISBN

9781681372860
168137286X
9781681372877 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018024065
40029021813

OCLC

1065784689

Author

Pajak, Frederik, author.

Title

Uncertain manifesto. Volume I / by Frédéric Pajak ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

Publisher

New York : NYRB, New York Review Books, [2019]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH. NEW SERIES.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Pajak, Frederik, author. Uncertain manifesto I New York : New York Review Books, [2019] 9781681372877 (DLC) 2018054438

Other Standard Identifier

40029021813

Research Call Number

JFF 20-952

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