Book of Mutter - Couverture souple

Zambreno, Kate

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913513661 ISBN 13 : 9781913513665

Editeur : Prototype Publishing Ltd., 2025

Synopsis

Composed over thirteen years, Kate Zambreno’s Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throes – and dead calm – of grief. Book of Mutter is both primal and sculpted, shaped by the author’s searching, indexical impulse to inventory family apocrypha in the wake of a mother’s death. The text spirals out into a fractured anatomy of melancholy that includes critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Peter Handke, and others. Zambreno has modelled the book’s formless form on Bourgeois’s Cells sculptures – at once channelling the volatility of autobiography, pain, and childhood, yet hemmed by a solemn sense of entering ritualistic or sacred space. Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, Book of Mutter is an uncategorisable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. It is a haunted text, an accumulative archive of myth and memory that seeks its own undoing, driven by crossed desires to resurrect and exorcise the past. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem/postmodern theatre.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kate Zambreno is the author of ten books, most recently The Light Room, a meditation on art and care, published in the UK by Corsair, along with a reissue of their seminal text Heroines. Tone, a collaborative study with Sofia Samatar, under The Committee to Investigate Atmosphere, was recently published by Columbia University Press. Forthcoming is Animal Studies, a book of zoos and Kafka, as part of the Undelivered Lectures series at Transit Books. They are a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. Book of Mutter and its companion text of lectures, Appendix Project, are being reissued together by Prototype. Zambreno is at work on a series of books, Realisms, circling around precarity and interiors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prototype Publishing Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913513661
• ISBN 13: 9781913513665
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 142
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible