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Reading Life

Books For the Ages

Sven Birkerts author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Graywolf Press,U.S.

Published:3rd May '07

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Reading Life cover

Acclaimed critic Sven Birkets decided to reinvest himself in the books that formed the landmarks of his inner life. In his words, Reading, the mind's traffic in signs and signifiers, is the most dynamic, changeful and possibly transformational act we can imagine.' By returning to the light-posts which marked his formative years, Birkets dissects the foundations themselves, finding strange sediments of self: of time, of memory, of the forming and ever-changing processes of intellectual life.'

ISBN: 9781555974640

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 320g

256 pages