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. 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. We can only disappear.”
- ISBN10 098447529X
- ISBN13 9780984475292
- Publish Date 28 November 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Black Ocean
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English