The Ghosts of Birds

ISBN-13: 9780811226189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str.

Eliot Weinberger

Opis

The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into -a vortex for the entire universe- (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colorado River, records the dreams of people named Chang, and shares other factually verifiable discoveries that seem too fabulous to possibly be true. The second section collects Weinberger's essays on a wide range of subjects--some of which have been published in Harper's, New York Review of Books, and London Review of Books--including his notorious review of George W. Bush's memoir Decision Points and writings about Mongolian art and poetry, different versions of the Buddha, American Indophilia (-There is a line, however jagged, from pseudo-Hinduism to Malcolm X-), Bela Balazs, Herbert Read, and Charles Reznikoff. This collection proves once again that Weinberger is -one of the bravest and sharpest minds in the United States- (Javier Marias).

O autorze

Eliot Weinberger, geboren 1949 in New York, ist Essayist, Dichter und Übersetzer der Werke von Octavio Paz, Vicente Huidobro, Bei Dao und anderen. Für seine Edition der Selected Non Fictions von Jorge Luis Borges erhielt er den National Book Critics Award. 1992 wurde er für seinen Beitrag zur Förderung hispanischer Literatur in den USA zum ersten Preisträger des PEN/Kolovakos Award ernannt. 2000 verlieh ihm die mexikanische Regierung als erstem Nordamerikaner überhaupt den höchsten mexikanischen Staatspreis, den Azteken-Adler.