Notes Made While Falling - Jenn Ashworth
-20% with code BOOKS
Shipping in 28-34 days
30-day return policy
A genre-bending meditation on sickness, spirituality, creativity, and the redemptive powers of writing.Notes Made While Falling is both a genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatized and sickened selves in fiction and film. It offers a fresh, visceral, and idiosyncratic perspective on creativity, spirituality, illness, and the limits of fiction itself. At its heart is a story of a disastrously t ... Full description
You May Also Like
TOP
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock
TOP
Little Book of Cartier: The story of the iconic jewellery brand
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Call It Home: The Details That Matter
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Encyclopaedia Eorzea ~The World of Final Fantasy XIV~ Volume I
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Lorena B - Top Model of MetArt.com: Deutsch/Englische Originalausgabe - Original English-German Edition
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Encyclopaedia Eorzea ~The World of Final Fantasy XIV~ Volume II
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
The Art of Home: A Designer Guide to Creating an Elevated Yet Approachable Home
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond
-20% with code BOOKS
Out of stock
TOP
Fashionpedia: The Visual Dictionary of Fashion Design
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
The Joinery Compendium: Learning from Traditional Woodworking
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Street Art in Berlin: Version 10.0
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Architecture Against Architecture: A Manifesto
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
The Last of Us: Part I and Part II Scripts
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
If I Could Write Poetry: Selected Lyrics
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Ein deutsches Requiem op. 45: Klavierauszug
-20% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
Description
A genre-bending meditation on sickness, spirituality, creativity, and the redemptive powers of writing.
Notes Made While Falling is both a genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatized and sickened selves in fiction and film. It offers a fresh, visceral, and idiosyncratic perspective on creativity, spirituality, illness, and the limits of fiction itself. At its heart is a story of a disastrously traumatic childbirth, its long aftermath, and the out-of-time roots of both trauma and creativity in an extraordinary childhood.
Moving from fairgrounds to Agatha Christie, from literary festivals to neuroscience and the Bible, from Chernobyl to King Lear, Ashworth takes us on a fantastic journey through familiar landscapes transformed through unexpected encounters and comic combinations. The everyday provides the ground for the macabre and the absurd, as the narration twists and stretches time. Hovering on the edge of madness, writing, it seems, might keep us sane—or might just allow us to keep on living.
In Notes Made While Falling, Ashworth calls for a redefinition of the creative work of thinking, writing, teaching, and being, and she underlines the necessity of a fearlessly compassionate and empathic attention to vulnerability and fragility.
More Information
| Author | Jenn Ashworth |
|---|---|
| Publisher | MIT Press |
| Release year | 2019 |
| Cover type | Hardcover |
| EAN | 9781912685196 |