These Threads Who Lead to Bramble: Essays - Couverture souple

Persson, Russell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1938603222 ISBN 13 : 9781938603228

Editeur : Dzanc Books, 2025

Synopsis

"Dazzling... a book to read again and again."-Tom Jeffreys, editor of Walking: Documents of Contemporary Art and author of The White Birch

Russell Persson's These Threads Who Lead to Bramble defies the singularity of any one genre as it braids together memory and myth to challenge the limits of our collective imagination

This is a book that contains multitudes--a celebration of the forgotten marginalia of Westernized thought. Persson's collection delves into eccentric twentieth-century American photographers, the lives of his ancestors both distant and recent, and of the artist Egon Schiele in prison, teetering on the edge of sanity. He interweaves the careers of three obscure composers--Alban Berg, Erik Satie, and Anton Webern--and imagines the composer's life based on listening to their music, rather than the other way around. And he charts the path of his own life from a long-ago teenage road trip, sleeping in the backs of friends' cars and trying to find himself inside a vast world.

As the work builds, the lines between personal memory and collective history become ever more abstract, blending inner and outer spheres to confront the unknowable expanse of universal existence. A must-read for fans of Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz.

This work includes black-and-white reproductions of Egon Schiele's drawings, with permission from The ALBERTINA Museum in Vienna.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Russell Persson lives in Reno, Nevada. His first novel, The Way of Florida, was published in 2017 by Little Island Press, and was reprinted in 2025 by Baobab Press. His work has appeared in The Quarterly, Unsaid Magazine, 3AM Magazine, Egress Magazine and other publications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dzanc Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1938603222
• ISBN 13: 9781938603228
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 146
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible