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A Month in Siena

Autor Hisham Matar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 oct 2019
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.

After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he'd had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments. Including beautiful full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in Siena is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in the writer's life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with a city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape--current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude--and shed further light on the present world around us. Praise for A Month in Siena "As exquisitely structured as The Return, driven by desire, yearning, loss, illuminated by the kindness of strangers. A Month in Siena is a triumph."--Peter Carey
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780593129135
ISBN-10: 059312913X
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 133 x 200 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Random House

Notă biografică

Hisham Matar is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the memoir The Return, which also received the PEN/Jean Stein Award and other international prizes, and was selected as one of The New York Times's Ten Best Books of the Year. His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won several awards, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and a Commonwealth First Book Award. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was selected as one of the best books of the year by several publications, including the Chicago Tribune and The Guardian. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2013. Born in New York City to Libyan parents, he spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and now divides his time between London and New York, where he teaches literature at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Recenzii

Anintensely movingbook, at oncean affirmation of life's quiet dignities in the face of lossanda portrait of a citythat comes to stand for all cities
Thisslim, beautifully producedbook,sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss.Matar's prose isexquisitely measured and precise- not unlike one of the paintings from the Sienese school that he has admired for so many years
This book tells us much about the extraordinary power of art to inspire
What a jewel this is,driven by desire, grief, yearning loss, illuminated by hope, the kindness of strangerscontinually making tribute to the delicacy and grace of the Arab home the author lost so many years ago
Afluid series of meditations on the big questions of life, onlove, faith, time and on the nature and purpose of art, the influence of architecture and, most important of all to this author,grief, mourning and memory
Mingles insightful and often moving art history with frank personal recollectionin a way that reminds us of the communality we share not only with our contemporaries, but with all historical epochs.I can think of no better expression of the humane than this economical, modest, yet altogether breathtaking book
Hisham Matar is abrilliant narrative architect and prose stylist, his pared-down approach and measured pacea striking complement to the emotional tumult of his material
What interests him in this art is thehuman knowledgethe painter is trying to convey. The description isexact and graceful, as Matar's prose tends to be
A Month in Sienabears all the hallmarks of Matar's writing: it isexquisitely constructedand the use of language isprecise and delicately nuanced without pretension. And there is a deceptive simplicity to his endeavour: to look at art. What emerges is an altogether more complex philosophical exploration ofdeath, love, art, relationships and time
Adeeply moving, engrossingbook. Written inelegant, concise prose, it isa remarkable mediation on life, loss, mourning, exile, friendship and the power of art
Hisham Matar has the quality all historians - of the world and the self - most need: he knows how to stand back and let the past speak
A thing ofbeautyandwisdom
Adazzling exploration of art's impact on his life and writing,and amoving contemplation of grief
An exquisite, deeply affecting book
Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings
Bewitching. . . Meditating on art, history and the relationship between them, this is both a portrait of a city and an affirmation of life's quiet dignities in the face of loss