These Threads Who Lead to Bramble
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"This is a book that contains multitudes -- a celebration of the forgotten marginalia of Westernized thought. Persson's collection delves into eccentric twentieth-century American photographers, the lives of his ancestors both distant and recent, and of the artist Egon Schiele in prison, teetering on the edge of sanity. He interweaves the careers of three obscure composers -- Alban Berg, Erik Satie, and Anton Webern -- and imagines the composer's life based on the textures of his compositions. Using the fugitive recollections of road trips, incomplete and unreliable family histories, photograp...
"This is a book that contains multitudes -- a celebration of the forgotten marginalia of Westernized thought. Persson's collection delves into eccentric twentieth-century American photographers, the lives of his ancestors both distant and recent, and of the artist Egon Schiele in prison, teetering on the edge of sanity. He interweaves the careers of three obscure composers -- Alban Berg, Erik Satie, and Anton Webern -- and imagines the composer's life based on the textures of his compositions. Using the fugitive recollections of road trips, incomplete and unreliable family histories, photographs and considerations of deep time, Persson is a mapmaker charting the salvage of lost days. As the work builds, the borders between personal memory and collective history become ever more abstract, blending inner and outer spheres to confront the unknowable expanse of universal existence. A must-read for fans of Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. This work includes black-and-white reproductions of Egon Schiele's drawings, with permission from The ALBERTINA Museum in Vienna" --Provided by publisher.
