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Uncertain Manifesto by Frédéric Pajak (2019, Trade Paperback)
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An illustrated artist's memoir of the motivations, feelings, ideas, figures (including Samuel Beckett and Walter Benjamin), travels, and love affairs that have influenced his life. The writer and artist Fr d ric Pajak was ten when he began to dream of "a book mixing words and pictures: snippets of adventure, random memories, maxims, ghosts, forgotten heroes, trees, the raging sea," but it was not until he was in his forties that this dream took form as Uncertain Manifesto . 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. With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro HelvetiaProduct Identifiers
PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10168137286x
ISBN-139781681372860
eBay Product ID (ePID)24038786792
Product Key Features
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Historical, Philosophy, Comics & Graphic Novels
Publication Year2019
LanguageEnglish
Artist/WriterFrédéric Pajak
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6in
Item Length9.2in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Width6.9in
Additional Product Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"[Pajak] meditates on the need to remember the past in order to understand the present...A complex portrait of the nature and power of narrative." -- Kirkus Reviews
Book TitleUncertain Manifesto
Lccn2018-024065
Target AudienceTrade
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal843.92
TopicPhilosophers, History & Surveys / General, European / French, Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, Literary, Europe / General
Lc Classification NumberPq2676.A3776
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