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Karmic Traces
For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his essays are works of the imagination where all the facts are verifiable. As entertaining as fiction and as vivid as poems, ma...more
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
November 22nd 2000
by New Directions Publishing Corporation
(first published November 2000)
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There is so much amazing information in these essays it's impossible to paraphrase the whole. The essays stack facts one after another until they lead you somewhere unexpected yet inevitable. Of course the facts are like a stacked deck, Weinberger knows where he is leading you and his art is in the seeming absence of authorial voice. He doesn't state opinions or offer analysis. He just offers evidence until a case is made. Sometimes he'll make an abrupt turn that sends you looking for connection...more
I can't think of another living essayist imbued with as much humor, lyricism, humanity and learning as Weinberger.
Essays like you've never read before, spanning the globe to cover all matters poetical, anthropological, mythical, and intellectual. Weinberger is going to be one of the great names. Of all the essays though, the last one, The Falls, makes me want to read this book over and over.
--Neil
--Neil
The modernist lyric and the Borgesian essay--nice parents for any style. Very excited to read more of him.
I loaned this to someone in I.C., but now I no have it. It good. It amazing, really. It lost.
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Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages.
Weinberger first gained recognition for his translations of the Nobel Prize winning writer and poet Octavio Paz. His many translations of the work of Paz include the Collected Poems 1957-1987, In Light of India, and Sunston...more
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Weinberger first gained recognition for his translations of the Nobel Prize winning writer and poet Octavio Paz. His many translations of the work of Paz include the Collected Poems 1957-1987, In Light of India, and Sunston...more
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