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A Month in Siena

Autor Hisham Matar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 oct 2019
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR
'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings'Zadie Smith
'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss'Guardian
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When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the first time. In the year in which Matar's life was shattered by the disappearance of his father the work of the great artists of Siena seemed to offer him a sense of hope. Over the years since then, Matar's feelings towards these paintings would deepen and, as he says, 'Siena began to occupy the sort of uneasy reverence the devout might feel towards Mecca or Rome or Jerusalem'.
A Month in Sienais the encounter, twenty-five years later, between the writer and the city he had worshipped from afar. It is a dazzling evocation of an extraordinary place and its effect on the writer's life. It is an immersion in painting, a consideration of grief and a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and the human condition.
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'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'The Economist, Books of the Year
'An exquisite, deeply affecting book'Evening Standard
'A dazzling exploration of art's impact on his life and writing, and a moving contemplation of grief'Financial Times
'Breathtaking'New Statesman
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241409503
ISBN-10: 0241409500
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 137 x 204 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Viking
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Hisham Matarwas born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He is the author of two novels,In the Country of MenandAnatomy of a Disappearance, and a work of non-fiction,The Return.In the Country of Menwas shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, theGuardianFirst Book Award and the National Critics Book Circle Award in the US and won six international literary awards.The Returnwon a Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Folio Prize and was shortlisted for many other awards including the Baillie Gifford Prize. Hisham Matar lives in London.

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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