Memory theater
"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 Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office.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, Critch…
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- Full title :Memory theater / Simon Critchley.
Summary
"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 Boxes carrying his unpublished papers mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office.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"--Dust jacket flap.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Other Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:101 pages ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781590517406, 1590517407
- oclc:ocn903634778
- LC Classification:PS3603.R579
- Dewey Decimal:813/.6
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