Bibliograph

The traces, an essay, Mairead Small Staid

Type

Label

The traces, an essay, Mairead Small Staid

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The traces

Oclc number

1303076326

Responsibility statement

Mairead Small Staid

Sub title

an essay

Summary

"The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Stead's debut, The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Cities & memory -- Cities & desire -- Cities & signs -- Thin cities -- Trading cities -- Cities & eyes -- Cities & names -- Cities & the dead -- Cities & the sky -- Continuous cities -- Hidden cities

Classification