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Karmic traces, 1993-1999 / Eliot Weinberger.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.E3928 K37 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weinberger, Eliot.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 200 pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Karmic traces
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his essays are works of the imagination where all the facts are verifiable. As entertaining as fiction and as vivid as poems, making unexpected stops in odd corners of the globe or forgotten moments in human history, erudite, politically engaged, and acerbically witty, there is nothing quite like his work in contemporary writing.
- In Karmic Traces, twenty-four essays take the reader along on the author's personal travels from the Atacama Desert to Iceland to Hong Kong on the verge of the handover to China, as well as on imagined voyages on a 17th-century Danish ship bound for India and among strange religious cults or even stranger small animals. One never knows what will appear next: Viking dreams, Aztec rituals, Hindu memory, laughing fish, or prophetic dogs. And, in "The Falls," the long tour-de-force that closes the book, Weinberger recapitulates 3,000 years of history in a cascade of telling facts to uncover the deep roots of contemporary racism and violence.
- Contents:
- I Paradice 3
- Indridi Indridason 6
- An Archeology of Dreams 12
- Jon, Olaf's Son 16
- II In the Zocalo 49
- Naked Mole-Rats 53
- Genuine Fakes 56
- Sex Objects 61
- The Story of Om 64
- Political Analysts in Medieval India 68
- Hong Kong to Marry King Kong 71
- Vomit 75
- Teeth 80
- The Laughing Fish 83
- Renga 85
- III MacDiarmid 95
- Can I Get a Witness? 105
- James Laughlin 112
- Omar Caceres 117
- What Was Formalism? 121
- Ackerley's Hindoo Holiday 128
- Similes of Beauty 135
- IV Karmic Traces 141
- The Falls 158.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0811214567
- OCLC:
- 43657084
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