The Self Unstable Gabbert Elisa
The Self Unstable Gabbert Elisa Literary Nonfiction. With a sense of humor and an ability to find glimmers of the absurd in the profound, she uses the lyric essay like a koan to provoke the reader's…
Specifikacia The Self Unstable Gabbert Elisa
The Self Unstable Gabbert Elisa
Literary Nonfiction. With a sense of humor and an ability to find glimmers of the absurd in the profound, she uses the lyric essay like a koan to provoke the reader's reflection unsettling the role of truth and interrogating the "I" in both literary and daily life: "The future isn't anywhere, so we can never get there. Elisa Gabbert's THE SELF UNSTABLE combines elements of memoir, philosophy, and aphorism to explore and trouble our ideas of the self, memory, happiness, aesthetics, love, and sex.
smart and philosophically dexterous, capable of showing the self to be a fetish-object of its own and also a refractive We can only disappear." "Gabbert strikes a perfect balance between heart and head, between cleverness and earnestness, between language that demonstrates its own fallibility and language that is surprisingly, perfectly precise." Make Magazine ..".