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Memory Theater : A Novel by Simon Critchley (2015, Hardcover)

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PublisherOther Press, LLC

ISBN-101590517407

ISBN-139781590517406

eBay Product ID (ePID)210375088

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Book TitleMemory Theater : a Novel

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Literary, Biographical

Publication Year2015

GenreFiction

AuthorSimon Critchley

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight7.2 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-016958

Reviews"Simon Critchley is a figure of quite startling brilliance, and I can never begin to guess what he'll do next, only that it is sure to sustain and nourish my appetite for his voice. His overall project may be that of returning philosophical inquiry, and "theory," to a home in literature, yet without surrendering any of its incisive power, or ethical urgency. . . . I read Memory Theater and loved it." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Dissident Gardens " Memory Theater is a brilliant one-of-a-kind mind game occupying a strange frontier between philosophy, memoir, and fiction. Simon Critchley beguiles as he illuminates." --David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas "Novella or essay, science fiction or memoir? Who cares. Chris Marker, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Frances Yates would all have been proud to have written Memory Theater ." --Tom McCarthy, author of C "Remarkable...suffused with an enthusiasm for its subject, and a humor that carries the text lightly along as Critchley's frantic prose descends toward its conclusion." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "[Critchley's] fiction debut is rich, profound, and very funny." -- The Guardian "Teasing, economical, ingenious" -- Times Literary Supplement "A strange, affecting and stimulating book that's both a philosophical history and a personal memoir. Sifting through the archives of a dead friend, Critchley takes a fascinating journey through the philosophy and history of memory, and the technologies of remembering dreamed up by thinkers since classical times." --Hari Kunzru, author of Gods Without Men "With a sense of mischief combined with surprising reverie, Simon Critchley has braided together ideas about memory from the past with the latest thinking about unreliable narrative, altered states and the mysteries of consciousness. Memory Theater is a tantalizing, textual Moebius strip-philosophy, autobiography, and fiction twisted together." --Marina Warner, author of Stranger Magic

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisFrom this renowned philosopher comes a debut work of fiction, at once a brilliant pr cis of the history of philosophy, a semiautobiographical meditation on the absurd relationship between knowledge and memory, and a very funny story A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through them, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. While waiting for his friend's prediction to come through, Critchley receives the missing, final box, which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo's sixteenth-century Venetian memory theater, a space supposed to contain the sum of all knowledge. With nothing left to hope for, Critchley devotes himself to one final project before his death--the building of a structure to house his collective memories and document the remnants of his entire life., From this renowned philosopher comes a debut work of fiction, at once a brilliant précis of the history of philosophy, a semiautobiographical meditation on the absurd relationship between knowledge and memory, and a very funny story A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through them, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. While waiting for his friend's prediction to come through, Critchley receives the missing, final box, which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo's sixteenth-century Venetian memory theater, a space supposed to contain the sum of all knowledge. With nothing left to hope for, Critchley devotes himself to one final project before his death--the building of a structure to house his collective memories and document the remnants of his entire life.

LC Classification NumberPS3603.R579M46 2015