توضیحات
The author traces the documentation of her own life in diaries over twenty-five years, exploring the struggle to find clarity in life.
‘In her third book that continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. ‘I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,’ she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary–it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us’–Publisher’s website. Read more…
Abstract: The author traces the documentation of her own life in diaries over twenty-five years, exploring the struggle to find clarity in life.
‘In her third book that continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay, Sarah Manguso confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. ‘I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,’ she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now 800,000 words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary–it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity amid the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us’–Publisher’s website
نویسنده مستندات زندگی خود را در خاطرات بیست و پنج ساله ردیابی می کند و تلاش برای یافتن وضوح زندگی را بررسی می کند.
‘در کتاب سوم خود سارا مانگوسو که به تعریف خطوط مقاله معاصر ادامه می دهد، با دفتر خاطرات دقیقی روبرو می شود که بیست و پنج سال آن را نگه داشته است. او توضیح میدهد: «میخواستم هر روز را با ثبت تمام اتفاقاتی که تا به حال رخ داده به پایان برسانم. اما این جمله ساده ترس از اینکه او ممکن است چیزی را فراموش کند، ممکن است چیزی مهم را از دست بدهد، رد می کند. حفظ آن دفتر خاطرات که اکنون 800000 کلمه دارد، تا همین اواخر به نوعی تمرین معنوی تبدیل شده بود. سپس مانگوسو باردار شد و صاحب فرزند شد، و این دو رویداد کوپرنیک باعث ایجاد فراموشی شد که او را در رابطهای متفاوت با نیاز به مستندسازی خود در میان زمان جاری قرار داد. استمرار یک کار یدک و مراقبه است که کاملاً در تضاد با روان بودن دفترچه خاطرات قرار می گیرد – این روایتی غم انگیز از فناپذیری و ناپایداری است، از چگونگی تقلای ما برای یافتن وضوح در میان هرج و مرج زمان که به اطراف و بارها و از میان ما می چرخد. ‘–وب سایت ناشر. ادامه مطلب…
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