All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess - Couverture rigide

Rothfeld, Becca

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1250849918 ISBN 13 : 9781250849915

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2024

Synopsis

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession, gluttony, and ravishment in all domains of life, from literature to romance. In a healthy culture, Rothfeld argues, economic security allows for wild aesthetic experimentation and excess, yet in our contemporary world, we’ve got it flipped. The gap between rich and poor yawns hideously wide, while we compensate with misguided attempts to effect equality in love and art, where it does not belong. Rothfeld shows how our culture’s embrace of minimalism has left us spiritually impoverished: how decluttering has reduced our living spaces to vacant non-places; how the mindfulness trend has emptied our minds of the musings, thoughts, and obsessions that make us who we are; how the regularization of sex has drained it of unpredictability and therefore true eroticism; and how our craze for balance has yielded fictions with protagonists who aspire, stylistically and substantively, to excise their appetites. With uncompromising intellect, exuberance, and sly humor, Rothfeld insists that in culture, imbalance functions as a catapult, transforming our stagnant beliefs and identities. For culture to change, she says, it must bulge and binge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A finalist for a National Magazine Award, two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Nona Balakian reviewing prize, and winner of the 2021 Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, Becca Rothfeld is an essayist, critic, editor, and philosopher. She has written about Sally Rooney, Bruno Schulz, Simone Weil, internet stalking, Marie Kondo, serial killers, and more for publications like The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Art in America, the Baffler, and many others. Currently a PhD candidate in philosophy at Harvard, she lives in Cambridge, MA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250849918
• ISBN 13: 9781250849915
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: GS1 Slovakia; https://www.gs1sk.org; ; Nantersk� 23; Žilina; 010 08; Slovaquie