I Remember - Couverture souple

Brainard, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1917092237 ISBN 13 : 9781917092234

Editeur : Daunt Books, 2025

Synopsis

With a new introduction by Olivia Laing, alongside Paul Auster’s original.

‘A masterpiece. One by one, the so-called important books of our time will be forgotten, but Joe Brainard’s modest little gem will endure.’ Paul Auster

An enduring gem, Joe Brainard’s I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic. Brainard’s method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each beginning with the refrain ‘I remember’: ‘I remember that little jerk you give just before you fall asleep. Like falling.’

Recollections – jokes, confessions, daydreams and memories – were carefully, lovingly woven together. They were of family and friends; of movie stars; of early heterosexual fumblings and later gay life. Brainard's pared-back prose dodged both self-pity and judgement of others, and was written with an ear for musical cadence and an extraordinary painter’s eye. The result is witty, incantatory, profound and wholly captivating.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joe Brainard grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to New York when he was eighteen, where he became a vital presence in the city’s art and poetry scenes of the 1960s and 1970s. He died in 1994.

Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. They are the author of seven books, including The Lonely City, Crudo and The Garden Against Time. In 2018, they were awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction and in 2017, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Laing’s books have been translated into twenty-one languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Daunt Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1917092237
• ISBN 13: 9781917092234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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