Reading Life: Books For the Ages

by Sven Birkerts

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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.'
  • ISBN10 1555974643
  • ISBN13 9781555974640
  • Publish Date 3 May 2007
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Language English