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The Traces: An Essay

By Mairead Small Staid

Book information

Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Year
2022
ISBN
9781646052011, 2022019611, 9781646052004
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4202750 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-10 23:26:46
Literary Criticism; Travel; Nonfiction; LCO010000;

Description

The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Stead's debut, The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson.

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